As part of the World Children's Festival this week in Washington DC, LEGO set up a build area outside of the Smithosnian National Air and Space Museum for kids to create individual mosaics that will fill out a basketball court-sized map of the US. This snapshot (click for larger size) was taken last week at LEGO headquarters where master builders were assembling the outline of the map for sizing. The final map will contain 9500 base plates and more than a million bricks. Link to World Children's Festival, Link to press release
UPDATE: My friend Jennifer Colton, whose company handles PR for LEGO, just sent me this amazing photo of the finished map. (Click image to enlarge.) Jen says that LEGO will be giving "Creativity" grants to some of the kids who participated.
