“Are You a LEGO Maker?” Prototyping Challenge

**TO RESIDENTS OF THE USA ONLY**

ARE YOU A LEGO MAKER?
Contest starts today! Are you 13yo or older and live in the USA?
Then you must Enter the LEGO Prototyping Challenge!

From Play to Prototype

To encourage this type of tinkering and exploration, LEGO Systems today announced the “Are You a LEGO Maker?” Prototyping Challenge where makers, ages 13 years and older, from around the United States are invited to apply for one of up to 50 LEGO Making kits to help them prototype their innovative ideas.

For showcasing a compelling reason needed to power the prototyping process, winners will receive a LEGO Prototyping Kit, including a LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 kit, one thousand LEGO bricks and elements, access to a LEGO MINDSTORMS Expert Builder and the book, Spirit of Invention: The Story of the Thinkers, Creators, and Dreamers Who Formed Our Nation. The challenge opens today and runs through July 13. For more information visit www.LEGO.com/Maker.

No purchase necessary. Many will enter; only 50 will win. For US residents 13 years and over only. Enter between June 12 and July 13 2015. Sponsor: LEGO Systems, Inc. Void where prohibited. See www.LEGO.com/Maker for full Official Rules.

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