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thinking to fuse educational disciplines that seem miles apart. “STEM is not a different room you go to all the time,” said Moseley. “STEM education should impact and support the learning in the classroom. So I go and ask those teachers what they are working on and learning about then I go back and see what kind of creative STEM activity I can do that will emphasize that particular lesson.” Hence, the Lego structures for geogra-
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phy class. He has also used the Legos to help first graders in a unit on the human body as students were to construct parts of the skeleton. “Part of what they had to do was to know the most important bones of the body.” In essence, the students are having fun playing with Legos while at the same time gaining more than just rudimentary knowledge of the subject matter. Moseley’s Lego acumen has garnered him individual awards and helped him lead
Cornerstone to national recognition and could now lead him onto the television airwaves. His reputation has him being recruited as a potential participant on the Fox television reality competition program ‘Lego Masters.’ He recently went through the initial interview process with the show’s producer and will be submitting an audition tape for review. If selected, Moseley would be teamed with his friend Mark McCombs, the Northeast Florida FIRST Lego League Director of Robotics in Jacksonville. The show, which films for five weeks in Atlanta starting the final week of February, pits two-person teams of Lego enthusiasts facing off in brick-building challenges. If qualifying for the show, the pair would also be involved in robotics, a subject
