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It has been announced that The LEGO Foundation has launched a $143 million global competition to address early years development. This is the largest public grant that LEGO has provided which goes towards helping challenges that younger kids face. Some of these challenges include lost of access to services and support spurred on by the global pandemic.

Grants will be awarded to those exploring evidence-based innovative solutions to the biggest problems of today such as access to quality early childhood education and care, adequate nutrition, eradication of toxic stress in homes and communities, reduction of violence in homes and communities, protection from pollution, and supporting the social and emotional well-being of the whole family.

The LEGO Foundation launches USD 143 million global competition to tackle early years development

• Chief Executive Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen calls for urgent attention around young children amid global early childhood emergency, threatening future generations
• Biggest public grant of USD 143 million ever provided by The LEGO Foundation
• Global competition launched in the LEGO® brand’s 90th year seeks transformational ideas to help solve the biggest global challenges facing birth to six-year-olds

The LEGO Foundation has announced a USD 143 million global challenge to fund bold and impactful solutions focused on early childhood in what CEO, Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen says will address a “global early childhood emergency”, one that is characterised by a loss of access to services and support, exacerbated by the global pandemic.

Launched by The LEGO Foundation, the Build A World of Play Challenge will enable any organisations who can

Earlier today, LEGO announced that they will be significantly expanding and upgrading their headquarters in Billund, Denmark. There will be a creation of the “Kornmarken Campus” which will connect the existing LEGO factory to a new building. Also a new office building will become an “Innovation Center” which will be used for product innovation and product technology development. Construction will begin in 2023 and will be completed in 2025. The expansion will take sustainability into consideration as the Kornmarken Campus will use low carbon steel and concrete while the office spaces will use timber.

The LEGO Group invests to create cutting-edge engineering and innovation workplaces in Danish Headquarters

Billund, February 10, 2022: Today, the LEGO Group announced that it will significantly expand and upgrade its global headquarters in Billund, Denmark towards 2025. Construction will begin in 2023.

The investments include the creation of “Kornmarken Campus”, which will connect the existing LEGO® factory with a new 46,000m2 building. Combined, this will become the 100,000m2 Kornmarken Campus on the outskirts of the town of Billund. Investments will also be made in the construction of a new office building in the centre of Billund which will become an “Innovation Campus” providing a dedicated space for product innovation and product technology development. The expansions come on top of the investment in the 54,000m2 LEGO Campus building, which will be inaugurated later this year.

Niels B. Christiansen, CEO of the LEGO Group said: “We have invested significantly in our Billund Headquarters in recent years to create a working environment which reflects

For those who are near the Northpoint Mall LEGO Brand Store, there’s an opportunity for you to meet the winners of season 2 of LEGO Masters later this month. LEGO Masters Mark and Steven will be on hand on February 26 from 1pm-5pm at the Northpoint Mall at 1000 North Point Circle, Alpharetta, GA 30022. Their 24 hour collaborative build, Warden of the Woods, in the season finale gave them the title of LEGO Masters.

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LEGO has been known in helping local communities and recently, LEGO has been sending out MRI scanners sets to hospitals to help prepare children with their treatments. The sets would aid in reducing anxiety and make their experience more playful and less scary.

The LEGO Foundation is in the process to improving the availability of the LEGO MRI Scanner set and will be sharing information for hospitals to request them along with educational materials. For those who work in the medical field and want to request the set, I would suggest following The LEGO Foundation Twitter page and their Linkedin for updates.

LEGO employee Erik Ullerlund Staehr had a great idea – to build a LEGO model of an MRI scanner that could help medical staff prepare children for treatment. This would reduce their anxiety and make their experience more playful and less scary. The MRI model is now being built by employees across the world to distribute to their local hospitals.

I have a small weekend project – LEGO is donating model MRI Scanners to hospital Radiology departments to help children who may be nervous understand the process. I get to build one! pic.twitter.com/9C5MzulNtK

— Fraser Lovatt (@fraserlovatt) January 22, 2022

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— Fraser Lovatt (@fraserlovatt) January 22, 2022

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LEGO today celebrates their 64th LEGO Brick Patent Day which is the day that the LEGO brick was patented in Denmark. It is one of biggest events in LEGO history because without it, we wouldn’t be building anything. Soon after the Danish patent was filed, applications in other countries followed. In addition to this day, LEGO will also be celebrating their 90th birthday in August and they will for sure be doing something for that as well.

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I didn’t think that I would get to this point but The Brick Fan celebrates ten years of being on the Internet. A decade ago, the domain was registered and I still remember where I was when I registered it. Longtime readers may remember that the site went by another name but due to a trademark violation of the original site name, I had to change it and I think it stuck pretty well, don’t you think?

The Brick Fan was born a few months after my return from the “Dark Ages” and I wanted to document LEGO sets that I bought back then. My first set that I got was the LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon (7965) which I still have built to this day. It went from me just taking pictures of various sets as a general hobby to going full time on it and reporting on LEGO news is what catapulted to what it is today.

Of course, it wouldn’t be here if there wasn’t for the readers who continue to support the site. I remember trying to get my name out there and to get 50 pageviews a day was an accomplishment to me. Then came 100 pageviews a day, then 1,000. After a year and a half, we finally got to 10,000 a day. Early last year, we managed to hit 100 million total views which is still a staggering number that I never thought it could reach.

I’m also surprised that I kept on grinding for this long. To think … Continue