Lego Mindstorms are used for robotic competitions by the robotics club at Gateway Middle School.
For example, Lego Mindstorms allows users to download software from Lego's website so that the users can edit and update software as they wish.
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As such, it is part of an ongoing movement in computers and education that began with the work of Seymour Papert and the MIT Logo Group in the 1960s and has also manifested itself with Mitchel Resnick's work on Lego Mindstorms and StarLogo.
His most famous work is Roboter programmieren mit NXC für Lego Mindstorms NXT, the German standard reference for Not eXactly C.