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We enjoy covering FLL and will continue to bring you news related to it, but just in case you're unfamiliar with the site, please check out www.techbrick.com if you've never paid a visit. Marco Ciavolino's coverage of all things FLL is outstanding - he even provides an email newsletter that always keeps you up-to-date on rule changes, new resources, and anything else he can fit in there... many of the notices you see on our blog related to FLL come directly from Marco. He's recently added some new resources that teams will find incredibly useful... here's a sample of his most recent newsletter: ********************************************** 1. Anne and Dave, our new mentors for FLL, have come up with the most amazing, simple, and effective method for helping a team work through the missions, especially for rookie teams. Read about it here: http://www.techbrick.com/Lego/LEGO2008/Resources/fllmissioncards.html ********************************************** 2...

Back on Feb 26, we invited our readers to start submitting website/forum/blog URLs to our online resource collection - this is just a "bump" of that message to keep it visible. You can read the original post here or jump straight to the forum to share a site (or more). Be sure to read the instructions, and THANK YOU for helping us build this resource collection.

Calling all NXT Fans... Okay, the contributors here at The NXT Step need your help. The number of blogs, websites, forums, and more dedicated to the NXT are growing and growing and we're just not able to keep up with everything new that's appearing out there. We've decided to create an HTML webpage to organize all the NXT resources out there. (We may also make this a downloadable document as well.) How can you help? Easy. Go to our Forum and look under the General Category (the first section of our forum). Inside there you will see a new category called "NXT Resource Collection". Open the Collection thread and help us build the new webpage. The rules are simple - 1. Provide us with the URL of an NXT resource that you'd like to add to the collection. Please do not provide URLs that already exist on our blog's homepage; we're already aware of them :) 2. Provide us with a short (3 sentences or less) description of the site if you can. 3. To help ...