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The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 robotics platform has been developed for two different target audiences. There are home users (children and hobbyists) and educational users (students and teachers). LEGO has designed a base set for each group, but what are the differences between these two? There isn’t a clear line between home users and educational users, though. It’s fine to use the Education Core Set at home, and it’s fine to use the Home Edition set at school. This article at Robot Square aims to clarify the differences between the two product lines so you can decide which product works best for you. The article covers the main differences between the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Home Edition (#31313) and LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 Core Set (#45544), as well as other subtle differences you should be aware of when choosing one of these sets.

Are you already using LEGO® MINDSTORMS EV3 at school? If so, take part in a contest run up by LEGO® Education by posting an image or video to Instagram that shows how EV3 has influenced the classes at your school. From the web site : From 26 August - 27 September, post an Instagram image or video that illustrates how LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 is changing the science, technology, engineering and math classes at your schools! For example, take a photo of video of the Gyroboy model helping a student or conducting an experiment. Get creative! Tag your photos and videos with @legoeducation and the hashtag #LearnWithEV3 and they’ll appear on the contest web page. Feel free to add other hashtags to promote your photos and videos.  Judges will select a winner by 14 October 2013 and announce the best #LearnWithEV3 photos and videos.

Now when the first EV3 education sets are released on the market and the software is downloaded we have something nice to look for. "The SPACE Challenge set". Form the education website: The Space Challenge is for all educators that want to teach STEM through hands-on problem solving. No matter if this is your first experience using LEGO® MINDSTORMS® or robotics or not, this learning program has been developed to support you and to make the materials suitable for your teaching environment. In the Space Challenge Activity Pack, there are seven Challenge Missions, nine Learning Missions and one Learning to Gear project. Each Mission and project presents a fun STEM learning opportunity. Student and teacher materials are provided in a multimedia content environment with the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 Content Editor featuring all the tools the students needs for documenting and presenting their findings and results as they progress through the material. Three Research P...

NOW is the time!!!  The best ever LEGO MINDSTORMS robotics platform starts to conquer the world!  August 1st, was the official release date of the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 Core set , while the EV3 consumer robotics platform , will hit retailers’ shelves on September 1st, 2013 .   Lee Magpili , lead designer of the  LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 set , talks about the new models and the joy of building and designing with the new EV3 platform.  For more information on the  LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 set, check the  Product Overview  at the official LEGO Education site. Meanwhile, e njoy both parts of his interview:

July 15, 2013 - Changchun Landing to Changchun , China. Woohoo! However my luggage -including what's important …my EV3 robots- are still missing somewhere in Beijing (don't ask, my fault apparently).  A warm welcome from Eric Steenstra and LEGO Education’s territory manager at the airport and everything feels much better! July 16, 2013 We have to prepare the setup in Changchun. My robots are still in Beijing and news are not so optimistic.  We decide to proceed to plan-B: Build and program a new set of robots within the next 12 hours. I, Eric and the guys from LEGO Education we start working hard ...well we're not really stressed because we can do it! Late at night my robots arrive in Changchun!!! Everything looks cool now!  July 17, 2013 The campus of the Changchun university is huge and superb, full of kids of all ages and thousands of Chinese teachers. The national robotic competition ( FLL ) is held at the Sport and Culture center of t...

(C) LEGO Education For the first time LEGO has offically announced a concrete date for the availability of the new MINDSTORMS product EV3: on the homepage of LEGO Education USA a News entry of today states the 1st of August 2013 as the date when the first sets of the Education version will be shipped to customers.