When my son was about 8 he had to spend a day with me because for some reason he couldn't go to school. He spent part of the day tagging along after me, and I had to visit the engineering building on campus, where they had an exhibit of scale models of things student engineers had built. Suspension bridges, vehicles, buildings, whatever. At a couple of them that my son really liked, I mentioned to the student builder that my son was a great fan of Legos. That was all it took - each of these young engineers had a fond history of the building toys.

When we left the building, my son said he'd like to be a Lego engineer. Who knew?

SRS