Creativity, teamwork, and collaboration have been paramount over the last few weeks in the Lego Club. Recently the club has began building their first major project, a recreation of the Titanic, featuring over 9000 pieces, and at a 1:200 scale of the real ship, building it has been no quick or easy task. The Titanic is one of the largest sets offered by Lego, being 53 inches long, 17.5 inches tall, and 6 inches wide. An accurate recreation of the real vessel, the ship has 300 portholes, the bridge, lifeboats, cargo cranes and smokestacks. It also has some functioning components, such as the piston engines which are connected to the propellers.
“The lego club has been rewarding and fulfilling, its been great fun to build this set with friends and other students and seeing it all come together is great.” Wallace Archie ’25 co-founder
Every week various is progress is made by each team, but despite the pace of building it is still a very enjoyable experience. As a member of the club myself, I believe that it’s a great way to take your mind off of schoolwork or other stresses during the day to instead focus on something else, that being building Lego and the Titanic. Previously the Lego club made the Jesuit shield and has outlined several other projects and undertakings for the remainder of the year.
The club has set out to completing this project during their weekly Monday meetings in A215 during community time. Conveniently, the ship comes in three major sections, allowing for teams to work on each section simultaneously. The project was started at the beginning of the semester and is still ongoing for anyone interested in helping build the titanic. Make sure to join the Lego Club if you are interested in completing more fun projects like this, and look out for the completed project which will be featured on campus.
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