{"id":2410,"date":"2008-05-30T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/When-quot-Edgelings-quot-Fly\/ba-p\/333601"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:19:41","slug":"when-edgelings-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/when-edgelings-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"When &#8220;Edgelings&#8221; Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The other day, my nephew IM&#8217;d me, &#8220;Aunt Susan, what Lego&#8217;s have you made lately?&#8221; Okay, so I\u2019m a Lego fanatic, but his IM made me think about students and technology.<BR \/><BR \/>At the age of six, my nephew has his own computer and participates in a social network through Webkinz. And now he wants to <EM>design <\/EM>his own Lego assembly and post it to the web to share with others. Maybe he\u2019ll use Solid Edge one day at one of the 9,300+ institutions that use our software to prepare future engineers.<BR \/><BR \/>Then he can submit his ideas to design contests. Some &#8220;Edgelings&#8221; from Auburn University submitted these excellent Solid Edge images to Siemens&#8217; <A href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/forms\/student_design_contest.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Student Design Contest<\/A>. Thought you would enjoy them as much as my nephew!<BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/siemens.pmhclients.com\/images\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriterWhenEdgelingsFly_EE06Clock_final_2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><\/A><BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/05\/WindowsLiveWriterWhenEdgelingsFly_EE06Clock_final_thumb.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2482\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/05\/WindowsLiveWriterWhenEdgelingsFly_EE06Clock_final_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"WindowsLiveWriterWhenEdgelingsFly_EE06Clock_final_thumb\" width=\"244\" height=\"199\" \/><\/A>Steve Gaffin<BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/siemens.pmhclients.com\/images\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriterWhenEdgelingsFly_EE06WheelTire4_2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><\/A><BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/05\/WindowsLiveWriterWhenEdgelingsFly_EE06WheelTire4_thumb.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2483\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/05\/WindowsLiveWriterWhenEdgelingsFly_EE06WheelTire4_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"WindowsLiveWriterWhenEdgelingsFly_EE06WheelTire4_thumb\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" \/><\/A>Cory Moss<BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/siemens.pmhclients.com\/images\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriterWhenEdgelingsFly_EE06toiklet2_2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><\/A><BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/05\/WindowsLiveWriterWhenEdgelingsFly_EE06toiklet2_thumb.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2484\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/05\/WindowsLiveWriterWhenEdgelingsFly_EE06toiklet2_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"WindowsLiveWriterWhenEdgelingsFly_EE06toiklet2_thumb\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" \/><\/A>Jae Chang<BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/05\/WindowsLiveWriterWhenEdgelingsFly_EE06Imsand_Rendering_thumb.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2486\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2008\/05\/WindowsLiveWriterWhenEdgelingsFly_EE06Imsand_Rendering_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"WindowsLiveWriterWhenEdgelingsFly_EE06Imsand_Rendering_thumb\" width=\"244\" height=\"221\" \/><\/A>Nicholas Imsand<BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/><BR \/>&nbsp;<BR \/><BR \/>Technorati Tags: <A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Solid Edge\">Solid Edge<\/A>,<A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/academic\">academic<\/A>,<A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/design\">design<\/A>,<A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Siemens\">Siemens<\/A>,<A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Siemens PLM Software\">Siemens PLM Software<\/A>,<A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/CAD\">CAD<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, my nephew IM&#8217;d me, &#8220;Aunt Susan, what Lego&#8217;s have you made lately?&#8221; Okay, so I\u2019m a Lego fanatic, but his IM made me think about students and technology.    At the age of six, my nephew &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}