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Robo-Expo 2008
The fourth annual Robo-Expo will be held on April 26, 2008 in
New York City.
The Robo Expo is an event for students of all ages, with a shared
interest in Robotics, to come together to pursue similar goals
or express themselves uniquely.
Visit the Robo-Expo
web site for more information.

Logo Summer Institute
The 2008 Logo Summer Institute will be held at The Spence School
in New York City August 4-8, 2008.
Take some time next summer to focus on your own learning. Join
us for a week of Logo exploration and creation.
Immerse yourself in Logo learning and project building. Use
MicroWorlds™ from LCSI, and other
Logo software environments. Design and build cybernetic devices
of all kinds with LEGO™, Pico™
Crickets and other robotics systems.and control them using Logo
programs
Find out more...

Recent Software Releases
NetLogo
NetLogo is a cross-platform agent-based parallel modeling
and simulation environment.The latest version is NetLogo 4.0.2,
which was released in December 2007. NetLogot is available for
free download from the NetLogo
web site.
StarLogo
The StarLogo team at the MIT Media Lab has announced
the release of StarLogo version 2.22. A Preview of StarLogo TNG is also available. For more information and a
free download go to the new
StarLogo web site.
Scratch
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Go to the Scratch web site for more information and a free download.

Robotics
The Handy Cricket
The Cricket is a tiny computer, suitable for all
kinds of robotics projects, that you can program using Logo. It
is now available. Click
here for more information.
The Pico Cricket
The Pico Cricket
is a new programmable device from the Playful
Invention Company.

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