MINDSTORMS

…1998 the company launched LEGO MINDSTORMS, combining traditional building elements with programmable robotics technology. (MINDSTORMS were retired in 2022.) Capitalizing on Christensen’s notion of children discovering the joy of creation, LEGO also appealed to schools and educators, and LEGO became a staple in many classrooms, teaching engineering, problem-solving, and programming.

…with the company LEGO on MINDSTORMS, a line of programmable toys in which customized LEGO bricks were embedded with tiny computers. The name was derived from Papert’s influential work Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980).