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On Wednesday (Oct. 9), Pharrell Williams’ non-profit group YELLOW and The LEGO Group launched the Construct the Change Playful Colleges Problem. The initiative challenges youngsters to design their dream studying areas utilizing no matter supplies they’ve, together with LEGO bricks.
“If we’re going to even the percentages via schooling and construct a brighter future, we’re going to want extra artistic concepts, and no one has higher concepts than children,” Williams shared in a press assertion. “Youngsters are good, and once you give them the instruments and sources wanted to domesticate their curiosity, something is feasible.”
He added, “I’ve been dreaming all my life, and once you’re curious, that’s when your creativeness is about on hearth. I can’t wait to see what children participating on this problem provide you with, and I do know that, along with The LEGO Group, we’re all going to construct change.”
The announcement arrived alongside a brief movie that includes a LEGO model of Williams, who opened up about discovering that his studying type was completely different from different children at school. Test it out beneath.
The LEGO Basis CEO Sidsel Marie Kristensen stated, “Youngsters’s superpower is [playing], because it allows them to study whereas they’re engaged and have company. For the LEGO Basis, studying via play is core to making sure that youngsters thrive in life and turn out to be lifelong learners. Subsequently, it is with nice delight that we will collaborate with the LEGO Group and YELLOW in constructing change.”
The Construct the Change Playful Colleges Problem was one in all a number of model collaborations between Williams and LEGO shared forward of Piece By Piece, which hits theaters on Friday (Oct. 11). They beforehand launched a space-themed set with 966 items and two mini-figures.