Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Get ready, LEGO fans: Tiny female LEGO scientists will storm toy aisles with their tiny scientific equipment starting this August. 
  
 That’s because the toy company just selected the Female Minifigure Set, which features a female chemist, a female astronomer, and a female paleontologist, as its latest LEGO Ideas Winner. Each scientist comes with their own equipment, including a chemistry lab, a telescope and a dinosaur skeleton, and the collection is called the “Research Institute.” 
  
 The idea was proposed by Dr. Ellen Kooijman, who wrote in her project proposal that professional LEGO figurines could “show that girls can become anything they want, including a paleontologist or an astronomer.” 
  
 Anyone can submit a proposal for a new LEGO set to the LEGO Ideas platform. Proposals that get more than 10,000 votes get reviewed by the company as a potential real-world project. 
  
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 LEGO has been criticized for its lack of female toys after a 7-year old girl wrote to the company earlier this year asking why only male toys got to do cool things. In her handwritten letter which went viral, Charlotte Benjamin lamented that there were “more LEGO boy people and barely any LEGO girls” and observed that “all the girls did was sit at home, go to the beach, and shop, and they had no jobs, but the boys went on adventures, worked, saved people … even swam with sharks” 
  
 Benjamin was apparently not excited about the “Lego Friends” series, which features pink-clad figurines who get their hair done, make cupcakes, and drive around with their girlfriends. 
  
 Write to Charlotte Alter at charlotte.alter@time.com. ||||| Science-themed project was submitted to Lego Ideas by Dr Ellen Kooijman, who recognized a gender gap in toy sets 
  
 Women in science are taking one tiny, plastic step forward after Lego announced on Tuesday it will launch a series of female scientists and their lab tools. 
  
 The science-themed project was selected as the latest Lego Ideas winner, and is set to hit shelves in August 2014. 
  
 The series – notably devoid of pink – includes an astronomer with a telescope, a paleontologist with a dinosaur skeleton and a chemist in a lab. 
  
 The project idea was submitted by Dr Ellen Kooijman, a geochemist in Stockholm. 
  
 In her project proposal, Kooijman wrote: "The motto of these [s]cientists is clear: explore the world and beyond!" 
  
  
  
 The toy company has been criticised in the past for its gender-based marketing tactics, and in particular, over a line of building blocks geared for girls called Lego Friends, featuring slim female figurines that lock into pastel-painted settings such as a beauty salon and bakery. 
  
  
  
 The debate even prompted a seven-year-old girl to write a letter to Lego asking why there are "more Lego boy people and barely any Lego girls". 
  
 In her letter, Charlotte Benjamin lamented how "all the girls did was sit at home, go to the beach, and shop, and had no jobs," while the boy figures went "on adventures, worked, saved people and had jobs". 
  
 On her blog, Kooijman, an avid Lego builder, said she recognized a gender gap among the figurines. 
  
 "As a female scientist I had noticed two things about the available Lego sets: a skewed male/female minifigure ratio and a rather stereotypical representation of the available female figures," she wrote. "It seemed logical that I would suggest a small set of female minifigures in interesting professions to make our Lego city communities more diverse." 
  
 Lego Ideas is a site where enthusiasts can submit and vote on ideas for sets they want to see available in toy stores. When an project receives 10,000 votes, it then enters a review phase to be evaluated by a board made up of set designers and marketing representatives, according to its website. 
  
 After testing the concepts for stability, playability, safety, market fit and more, the board selects one idea to become the next Lego Ideas product. The creator is recognized for inspiring the product and receives a cut of the product's sales. 
  
 “We’re very excited to release Ellen Kooijman’s Female Minifigure set, featuring three scientists, now entitled 'Research Institute' as our next Lego Ideas set," Lego said in a statement on its site. "This awesome model is an inspiring set that offers a lot for kids as well as adults. The final design, pricing and availability are still being worked out, but it’s on track to be released August 2014, so keep an eye out!” 
  
 Lego had not returned a request for comment at the time of publication. 
  
 Kooijman’s scientists beat out six other potential projects, among them a Sherlock set and a Legend of Zelda set. ||||| At long last, LEGO will actually have new female figurines who do something other than bake and hang out at the beach. 
  
 The Denmark-based toy company has approved new designs for female scientist, paleontologist and astronomer characters from its LEGO Ideas online competition. 
  
 “We’re very excited to release Ellen Kooijman’s Female Minifigure set, featuring 3 scientists, now entitled “Research Institute” as our next LEGO Ideas set,” LEGO said in an official statement. “This awesome model is an inspiring set that offers a lot for kids as well as adults.” 
  
 As Kooijman put it, LEGO typically features a “stereotypical representation” of women in their figures, and she set out to change that. 
  
 “As a female scientist I had noticed two things about the available LEGO sets: a skewed male/female minifigure ratio and a rather stereotypical representation of the available female figures,” Kooijman wrote in a post explaining her project. 
  
 “It seemed logical that I would suggest a small set of female minifigures in interesting professions to make our LEGO city communities more diverse,” she added. 
  
 Support for the project was slow at first, but thanks to a flurry of tweets, it skyrocketed from around 2,000 supporters to 10,000 in just about one week. 
  
 Despite comprising nearly half of the U.S. workforce, and 60 percent of bachelor degree recipients, women filled only 24 percent of Science Technology Engineering and Math jobs in 2009, according to the Department of Commerce. 
  
 It’s an acute problem with no easy solution. But many believe that one piece of the puzzle is broadening the dreams and visions of young girls. 
  
 In 2013, LEGO introduced a “scientist” mini-figure to its collection, and though she had no particular specialty, it was warmly received. 
  
 But LEGO’S 2011 attempt to explicitly appeal to girls was resoundingly panned. LEGO Friends seemed like a Barbie knockoff — replete with lots of pink, short skirts, hanging out at the pool and of course, some good old baking. Its critics called the toy sets condescending and stereotypical, or worse: sexist. 
  
 Earlier this year, a 7-year-old girl wrote to the company to complain that “all the girls did was sit at home, go to the beach, and shop, and had no jobs,” while the boys in LEGO toys “went on adventures, worked, saved people, and had jobs.” 
  
 7yo Charlotte writes an adorable and strongly worded letter to LEGO regarding the lack of adventures for girls. pic.twitter.com/JblNKzCwJs — SocImages (@SocImages) January 28, 2014 
  
  
  
 Kooijman’s design is the first step in correcting this problem. 
  
 For this heightened awareness of the depiction of women in toys and the media, there are many decades of feminism to thank. 
  
 More recently, however, Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, has made changing the depiction of women in stock images a big priority, along with — somewhat controversially — a campaign to reclaim the word “bossy” as a compliment, not a critique. 
  
 And startup GoldieBlox captivated the world with its truly ingenious ad recasting the Beastie Boys song “Girls” as a mini-feminist anthem to the backdrop of young girls building and breaking things. (The ad did get the company embroiled in a copyright infringement lawsuit with the band, though.) 
  
 “Girls, you think you know what you want,” they sing. “You like to buy us pink toys, and everything else is for boys.” 
  
 LEGO’s new “Research Institute” set is on track to be released in August 2014, the company said. |||||
Student:
Lego has apparently heard the criticism that its plastic universe is mostly a boys' club, and things will change this summer. A new line of figurines due out in August will feature a female chemist, paleontologist, and astronomer, reports Time. The set was suggested by a female geochemist in Sweden as part of the Lego Ideas platform in which regular folks get to suggest ideas that get put up for a vote. One thing the Guardian likes: The coming set looks "notably devoid of pink." It's about time, writes Abby Phillip at the Washington Post. The lack of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math is "an acute problem with no easy solution," she writes. "But many believe that one piece of the puzzle is broadening the dreams and visions of young girls."