For Liam’s Christmas Tree project, he wanted all red and green blocks, so pulled out everything he could find in the right colour. That makes it very easy when you want to add extra features. Compatibility with other Lego productsĪs you would expect, Lego WeDo 2.0 is compatible with all the standard Lego and Lego Technic bricks. Liam prefers coding on the Lego WeDo app, because it’s easy with the pictures, but his grandma gets involved as well and prefers to code in Scratch. We’ve tried coding Lego WeDo 2.0 with both Scratch and the Lego WeDo app, and had lots of success with both platforms. The structured classes with Bricks 4 Kidz have given him a great foundation, and his creativity has taken him the rest of the way. Over the last 6 months, Liam has learned a huge amount about gears, coding and design. With a bit of practice, he started creating his own. Liam took inspiration from Yoshihito Isogawa, Mi 2 Tom, and other creators he found on YouTube. As a result, we haven’t done many of the tutorials in the Lego WeDo app, but skipped straight to the ambitious stuff. Liam’s not particularly strong at following instructions, and always wants to skip ahead.

We started by getting just the smarthub, motor and sensors individually, and using them with our existing Lego at home. He loved his classes, but wanted to do more work with WeDo outside of class. Every week Liam built a new project, often an animal or a vehicle. Until he started there, we hadn’t even heard of this kit. Liam is in the second level of classes, where they use Lego WeDo 2.0. That has been such a great piece of luck! The weekend classes are tiny, so he gets to work one-on-one with a teacher and push the limits of the project. So we found out that they were also running classes at the local library on Saturday mornings. It booked out within a few hours, and Liam was really sad about missing out.

Bricks 4 Kidz began running some after school classes at his school in mid-2021. He has loved Lego for years, and been getting really interested in building and coding his other robots. Liam has been using Lego WeDo 2.0 for around 6 months.

Lego mindstorms wedo 2.0