Organiser Stuart Croft said the enormously successful day of block and mind-building activities had fired up the imaginations of other Rotary clubs throughout the country and a youth event organiser from Wellington.
‘‘On the day of publication of coverage of the event in The Courier, Ferrymead Rotary in Christchurch rang me.
‘‘They wanted to know all about it because they thought it would be good for them, too,'' Mr Croft said.
‘‘A couple of days later, and it was a guy from Blenheim on the line. He, too, had seen coverage of the event and asked me to call in on a trip north to explain the contest.''
But to top it off, a youth event organiser from Wellington did not just want to talk about it, ‘‘she was on her way to Timaru to meet me''.
‘‘I met her on the Friday and she has taken the Lego blueprint back to Wellington so I guess we will see a contest of some sort pop up there,'' Mr Croft said.
Mr Croft said he was delighted that his Lego initiative had found favour not just with locals but with national organisations as well.
The Lego event, held at Bluestone School, was run along the lines of the fun sport days that Rotary clubs hold each year in March. It was a teams event and an inter-school challenge.
Schools entered teams of three in each age group - junior, Years 3 and 4; intermediate, Years 5 and 6; and senior, Years 7 and 8.
‘‘The goal was for each team to build a model in a given time from a theme decided just before each heat and judged at the end of the allotted time,'' Mr Croft said.
Examples of themes included bridges, rockets, and robots, he said.
‘‘Four teams competed in each heat with winning teams going through to the next one.''
Lego bricks consist of colourful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears and various other parts. They were originally designed in the 1940s in Europe and have achieved international appeal among kindergarten toddlers, schoolchildren, teenagers and young-at-heart adults.
