 Hey everybody, welcome. This is Ross with The Verge. It's day three at CES and I am a grown human adult who's going to be playing with LEGOs for the next five minutes. Please excuse me, it's been a very long week already. I'm joined actually by LEGO Education. This week they're unveiling WeDo 2.0. It's an educational kit designed for elementary schools and students to learn robotics, engineering, math, science. So with this iteration and new generation of WeDo 2.0, we've built in some new technology features so Bluetooth wireless technology that enables it to run freely and be run using the tablet devices. So what is this? Is this part of the curriculum right here? Yeah, so this is actually from our series of getting started projects. So this build right here would be the first project that we would encourage students and teachers to do. It's a very simple build and it teaches the basics of how to connect your smart hub to the device that you're using to control it and also how to control your motor. And the motor is a really important feature in most of the builds so it's a good place to start. So this particular project you learn about science rovers and why scientists use rovers to explore far off or dangerous places that they can't go themselves. So if you open a project in the library, the content is launched and what you see here is what students will actually be working through. So initially they're given a challenge. They're also asked to watch a video that is a little animation video of our two elementary figures Max and Mia. They connect them to the problem that they're going to be trying to solve in the challenge. And after they've watched the video, they're then able to follow our step by step building instructions and then you're launched into your programming palette. What else do you have in here besides just Lego pieces? Yep, so there's also a tilt sensor so you can build a model that changes its behavior based on the angle that the tilt sensor is placed at and then there's also a motion sensor and that detects if objects are coming forward or away from your model. So the tilt sensor and the motion sensor are the other sensors in addition to the motor and then the smart hub that are included in the kit. Very cool. So this is coming out this year? Is it coming out now? Is it available? It came out yesterday so yes, it's 100% available. Sweet, and is it just for classrooms? Are you guys talking to teachers unions and schools? Are you guys actually selling direct to consumer as well? Yep, so the product was developed specifically for use in classrooms. We sell through Lego Education North America direct to schools but we also have an e-commerce site. Well, Pamela, thank you so much for joining. This is fun. I really needed this today so thank you so much for letting me play with Legos. Thank you for having me. And thank you for watching. If you want more CS, if you want more arts, culture, science, technology, anything The Verge covers, please hit us up at TheVerge.com or if you like us a lot, subscribe to our YouTube channel at TheYouTube.com. The Verge.
 Hey everybody, welcome.
 This is Ross with The Verge.
 It's day three at CES and I am a grown human adult who's going to be playing with LEGOs
 for the next five minutes.
 Please excuse me, it's been a very long week already.
 I'm joined actually by LEGO Education.
 This week they're unveiling WeDo 2.0.
 It's an educational kit designed for elementary schools and students to learn robotics, engineering,
 math, science.
 So with this iteration and new generation of WeDo 2.0, we've built in some new technology
 features so Bluetooth wireless technology that enables it to run freely and be run using
 the tablet devices.
 So what is this?
 Is this part of the curriculum right here?
 Yeah, so this is actually from our series of getting started projects.
 So this build right here would be the first project that we would encourage students and
 teachers to do.
 It's a very simple build and it teaches the basics of how to connect your smart hub to
 the device that you're using to control it and also how to control your motor.
 And the motor is a really important feature in most of the builds so it's a good place
 to start.
 So this particular project you learn about science rovers and why scientists use rovers
 to explore far off or dangerous places that they can't go themselves.
 So if you open a project in the library, the content is launched and what you see here
 is what students will actually be working through.
 So initially they're given a challenge.
 They're also asked to watch a video that is a little animation video of our two elementary
 figures Max and Mia.
 They connect them to the problem that they're going to be trying to solve in the challenge.
 And after they've watched the video, they're then able to follow our step by step building
 instructions and then you're launched into your programming palette.
 What else do you have in here besides just Lego pieces?
 Yep, so there's also a tilt sensor so you can build a model that changes its behavior
 based on the angle that the tilt sensor is placed at and then there's also a motion sensor
 and that detects if objects are coming forward or away from your model.
 So the tilt sensor and the motion sensor are the other sensors in addition to the motor
 and then the smart hub that are included in the kit.
 Very cool.
 So this is coming out this year?
 Is it coming out now?
 Is it available?
 It came out yesterday so yes, it's 100% available.
 Sweet, and is it just for classrooms?
 Are you guys talking to teachers unions and schools?
 Are you guys actually selling direct to consumer as well?
 Yep, so the product was developed specifically for use in classrooms.
 We sell through Lego Education North America direct to schools but we also have an e-commerce
 site.
 Well, Pamela, thank you so much for joining.
 This is fun.
 I really needed this today so thank you so much for letting me play with Legos.
 Thank you for having me.
 And thank you for watching.
 If you want more CS, if you want more arts, culture, science, technology, anything The
 Verge covers, please hit us up at TheVerge.com or if you like us a lot, subscribe to our
 YouTube channel at TheYouTube.com.
 The Verge.