Robotics

Today I went to the Science Center of Iowa to volunteer. I love volunteering there because you get to play with all sorts of really awesome things. Granted, it's all mostly geared toward younger kids, but if you don't like playing in a kiddie pool full of soapy water and blow bubbles big enough to stand in, then I think that's really quite sad.

Anyway, today I went and I was supposed to be the happy door greeter person for a few hours but instead got roped into helping at the Lego League competition. All of these groups from the metro area came (complete with awesome team t-shirts) and entered their lego robots in competition.

The really cool thing about it was that they were all like 13 and younger. I was watching part of the judging and there was this kid who was maybe 9 talking all sorts of programming jargon. Waaaaay over my head. But it was adorable all the same.

The competition was sponsored by ISU and a friend of mine from their APO chapter ended up volunteering through another group he's involved in, so it was cool to talk to him for a little while.

That's one of the coolest things about volunteering, I think, stumbling on something totally awesome you never knew existed.