Let Go My LEGO®

The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library presents a LEGO®-building contest for 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th grade students. The contest coincides with the Library’s Summer Reading Club theme: Catch the Reading Bug!

Youth will be asked to bring in their own Legos from home and build an imaginary or realistic bug of their own design in a 30-minute time limit at a branch in their neighborhood.

Library branch locations will hold scheduled contests to see who will compete for bugging, er, … bragging rights at a grand contest scheduled at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 26, 2008, in the Children’s Library at Main Library, 325 Michigan St. in downtown Toledo.

Below is the schedule for the series of branch contests. Winners will ultimately compete in the grand contest on July 26 at Main Library:

• June 30, noon-5:30 p.m. – Lagrange Branch, 3422 Lagrange St.

• July 1, 1 p.m. – Mott Branch, 1085 Dorr St.

• July 2, 2 p.m. – Holland Branch, 1032 S. McCord Rd.

• July 7, 2 p.m. – Oregon Branch, 3340 Dustin Rd., Oregon

• July 8, 3:30 p.m. – Reynolds Corners Branch, 4833 Dorr St.

• July 8, 2 p.m. – Toledo Heights Branch, 423 Shasta Dr.

• July 9, 2 p.m. – Point Place Branch, 2727-117^th St.

• July 15, 2 p.m. – Maumee Branch, 501 River Rd.

• July 16, 2 p.m. – Kent Branch, 3101 Collingwood Blvd.

• July 16, 2 p.m. – Locke Branch, 703 Miami St.

• July 16, 2 p.m. – Sylvania Branch, 6749 Monroe St.

• July 16, 2 p.m. – Waterville Branch, 800 Michigan Ave., Waterville

• July 17, 2 p.m. – Sanger Branch, 3030 W. Central Ave.

• July 17, 3 p.m. – Washington Branch, 5560 Harvest Lane

• July 19, 10:30 a.m. – Children’s Library at Main Library, 325 Michigan St.

• July 22, 2 p.m. – South Branch, 1736 Broadway

• July 24, 2:30 p.m. – West Toledo Branch, 1320 Sylvania Ave.

• July 26, 10:30 a.m. – Library Lego® Grand Contest at Main Library, 325 Michigan St.

Birmingham Branch Library’s contest was held in early June.

Winners of the Library’s Lego® Grand Contest on July 26 will receive Legos of course! Ribbons of participation will also be awarded for all youth who try their hand at making their Lego® bug.

The LEGO® brand started in the year 1934 by a Danish master carpenter named Kirk Christiansen. In Danish, Lego loosely means to “play well” – in Latin, Lego means, “I put together.”

Originally known as a company which sold wooden toys, stepladders and even ironing boards, the Lego® brand is recognized for its colorful rectangular-shaped plastic pieces which snap together.

For more details on the Library’s Lego® contests and on the 2008 Summer Reading Club: Catch the Reading Bug!, call 419.259.5207 or log on to toledolibrary.org.

 

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