One great event to keep an eye on is the World Robotics Olympiad. This year the event will take place in Manila. This event is on Nov. 6 and 7, 2010.

Get more information about this event from:

http://www.wroboto.org/

When we went it was really a successful event with 19 countries involved from around the world. It has only grown since then.

One tip! Use RobotC to program your Lego robots...your NXTs. RobotC is available on a trial basis from:

http://www.robotc.net/

Check out robotC for mindstorms and suddenly your lego mindstorms set becomes a serious programming teaching tool.

Just download the firmware to your NXT and your in business. There are over 150 sample programs you can download. Have the kids download them and change the numbers in them to see what happens. In my opinion this is the most effective way to teach programming.

RobotC is every bit as easy as the Mindstorms tile program!