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Great LEGO Sets For Building Engineering Skills

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Toys are not just for entertainment anymore. Toy companies are venturing into the education field and are trying to leave their footprints with the help of STEM toys. What are STEM toys? STEM stands for “Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The STEM toys focus on educating kids in these fields by including them into their toys. The recent STEM toys are focusing on robotics and coding. Lego STEM toys: If you ask our opinion, Lego has always been teaching and educating children and grownups alike, but hadn’t been “labeled” as such so far. I mean, take Lego Serious play for instance. We’re Strategy Awayday and we’re in team building in Scotland . Lego Serious Play sets have been teaching grownups and bringing out their inner STEM skills for years now. But now Lego Education has introduced their own STEM collections. Let’s take a look at few of them here. Lego Duplo (Ages 1.5 - 5) A great set for preschoolers, with colourful blocks to attract them while teachin

5 Easy Ways to Store Your LEGO Collection - Team Building Scotland

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Strategy Awayday is one of the companies for team building in Scotland. And we know our Lego. The most common problem with Lego is the storage. Our foot would agree.  So Strategy Awayday brings you 5 easy ways to store your Lego collections. https://www.strategy-awayday.com/ 1. Sort by Colour Small size Lego collections For a small collection, the best way to sort them is by colour. Some people bin it up w.r.t to the collections, but where’s the creativity boost in that? So buy big bins with dividers and sort your Lego pieces by colour.  Medium Size Lego Collection 2. Sort by category Team building Scotland  storage by colour becomes meaningless as your collection grows. So the next step is to sort by category i.e. by bricks, plates, tiles, beams, etc.  3. Sort your categories by category You can further store your  Lego  collections by sub categorizing your bricks like round bricks, technic bricks, etc. Make note, we’re not dividing them by colour. Plastic drawers