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Veronica Watson won a LEGO contest to get her job
a LEGO building contest. The winner would get a job as a master model builder at Legoland. “I thought I would enter for fun,” Veronica says. In the contest,
As a kid, Veronica loved playing with LEGO bricks with her brothers in the basement. They built a model of the Hogwarts castle from the Harry Potter books. It took a month and covered a table. When she got to
she built animals, a guitar, and a model of her head. She had to do it fast. Kids helped judge the contest. Guess who won?
college, Veronica still wanted to build. So she studied to be an architect. An architect designs buildings. A Contest After college, Veronica had
Veronica! To celebrate, workers dumped LEGO bricks on her head. Veronica wore a hard hat, so it didn’t hurt. “I had LEGO in my pockets and my shoes,” she says laughing.
She made these cars.
nice memories of LEGO. She also needed a job. Then she heard about
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Teacher: Read aloud the title and each section heading of “She Made It!”. Then read through the article and talk about how Veronica Watson began building with LEGO bricks as a kid and continued her interest in building at college, where she studied architecture. Share what happened at the LEGO contest and after she won. Then read “Tips for Building a Tall Tower” and talk about the advice she gives. Purpose: To find out what it is like to create with LEGO bricks and work at Legoland
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