LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 in Athens, Greece

It is a real pleasure for me to combine my very first post to the The NXT STEP (is EV3, of course!) with the Grand Opening of the most important LEGO event in Greece.

This is the fourth year that the Greek LEGO Market Office organises the "LEGO Festival at The Mall Athens" and of course the LEGO MINDSTORMS product was present in all previous years. Especially last year, MINDSTORMS was the flag-ship product of the event, during which we had the honour to host bazmarc.ca with his Wall-E and Mike and Dave from UK with their amazing CubeStormer.

This year, is another special year as we're hosting for the very first time in Greece, EV3RSTORM and all his gang R3PTAR, TRACK3R, GRIPP3R and SPIK3R. If you're living in Greece or if you are planning to visit Greece from May, 17 to June, 8 this is a huge opportunity to get in touch and experience this amazing new product.

To tease you a bit more... here is our first picture from our LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 booth were Artemis from the Greek LEGO team is ready to power on EV3RSTORM.

Also, here you'll find the official TV commercial of the event with some neat shots of SPIK3R and TRACK3R:

Kids and adults were really attracted by the coolness of EV3... It was definitely an exciting day! I'll keep you posted on what happens here in Greece with more interesting pictures and videos.

Vassilis (NeXTSTORM) Chryssanthakopoulos from Athens, Greece

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In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of MINDSTORMS, we take a trip through history. Please also visit ROBOTMAK3RS Community every week as we highlight different projects all through 2023 in celebration of the anniversary. Some of the early history is based on the content shared by Coder Shah in our MINDSTORMS EV3 Community Group . Some of the text and links may have been edited from his original posts for consistency and clarity. 1984 - Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen watched a TV program called "Talking Turtle," where MIT professor Seymour Papert demonstrated how children could control robot "turtles" using LOGO, a programming language he developed. 1988 - The collaboration between MIT and LEGO resulted in LEGO TC Logo in 1988, which allowed students to control LEGO models using computer commands. The video shows Papert demonstrating TC Logo. 1990 - LEGO TC Logo was hampered since the robots you built had to be tethered to a personal computer. LEGO and MIT...

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