Yahoo! News – Lego Fires Two Executives, Mulls Layoffs
Lego will stop making the Mindstorms series of toys that many schools use to participate in regional and state competitions for robot building. I imagine that this will end those competitions, which is too bad for our scientifically-gifted kids.
Time to bid on some extra sets on EBay!

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It’s a question we get asked all the time, especially for authors like Jon Scieszka. Now there is a webpage to answer that, so that when you are presenting a program, a booktalk, a book discussion, you can actually feel free to mention the author by name! Oh, and Scieszka is SHESS-ka (rhymes with Fresca). Who’d have thunk?