LEGO.com Parents News : January 2007

30 Jan 2007

World’s largest LEGO ship is sailing around the world.

”I can build that – with LEGO bricks!” It all began one day when Malle Hawking watched a documentary on Discovery Channel, featuring the large aircraft carrier, ’Harry S. Truman, CVN 75’.

Fascinated by the ship, the IT consultant from Munich, Germany, went to his basement and found his old LEGO bricks. He had not used them since the age of 15 but now he needed all of them – and many more. And all of a sudden he had gained a great hobby that makes him relax from a stressful job.

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16 Jan 2007

LEGO Builders of Tomorrow: Kids helping kids

Third-grader Dixon Dubow of Raleigh, North Carolina, became intent on collecting as many LEGO bricks as possible to help students in New Orleans. Dubow brought the idea to his Cub Scout Pack, and the group of 100 boys dipped into their personal LEGO brick collections, solicited local businesses and asked their classmates for donations. Led by Dubow, the Pack was able to collect more than 45,000 LEGO bricks as part of the LEGO nationwide brick drive for News Orleans schools.

Read more about Dixon on the www.legobuildersoftomorrow.com site.

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