Stephen Ocko was an American documentary filmmaker, educationalist, and inventor.
In the mid-1980s Ocko joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. Here, alongside Mitchel Resnick and Seymour Papert, and engineers from the LEGO Corporation, he was involved in creating a LEGO robotics controller (commercialised as Interface A), motor, light and sensor system that could be connected to LEGO technic bricks and programmed using Logo educational software.

This kit, combined as LEGO TC Logo, was a commercial success which reached thousands of teachers and students. Ocko went on to work for LEGO as the Senior Research Designer in the company's Futura product development department.

In 1990, Ocko and MIT colleague Mitchel Resnick travelled to Australia to contribute to the Sunrise School educational technology program. The Sunrise Collection at Melbourne Museum contains a range of items related to the Sunrise School program.


References

LEGO (2024). LEGO History, LEGO Education. https://www.lego.com/en-au/history/articles/g-lego-education , accessed 31.1.2024.

Resnick, M., Ocko, S., & Papert, S. (1988). LEGO, Logo, and design. Children's Environments Quarterly, 5(4), 14-18.

The New York Times (2000). Ocko, Stephen Jay Obituary. The New York Times, 17 November, 2000, p.11.

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