After participating recently in a couple of holiday robotics workshops it's become clear DS 8 has a rather exceptional talent for programming. It's the first time we, and others, have really seen in the real world, rather than just on paper, that his peer group for this kind of activity is around the mid to late teens.
He's now been invited to participate in weekly high school workshops and the question of whether we'd purchase a mindstorms kit comes into play. Until now we've really thought of this as a very high end toy. I'm now considering it more in the nature of a musical instrument. Oddly enough while forking out the big dollars for a lego toy is something I'd struggle with the purchase of a musical instrument, I would not. In that vein I'm thinking it shouldn't be a birthday or Christmas present, which I was originally thinking if we decided to take the plunge, but a specialist piece of equipment to further a talent.
How do people give a musical instrument to their kids? Is it a birthday type of gift or is it just equipment to undertake their pursuit of choice?
Anyone else purchased mindstorms? Thoughts?
Last edited by freya; 10/26/14 07:02 PM.
