Epro8 Challenge Year 5-8

Epro8 Challenge Success!

Over the last two days (March 22/23) we have had four teams competing in the Palmerston North heat of the Epro8 Challenge.  This is a national competition that stands for Engineer, Problem Solve, Innovate.  (http://epro8challenge.co.nz/)

The Year 7 / 8 competition was on Wednesday evening.  Teams had to work together to solve a variety of challenges including building an animatronic guard dog, devising a positional laser, building a bridge and creating a fairground balloon ride.

The Whakarongo Slingshots  (Axis Simon, Indiana Brown, Flynn Harris and Emma Mildenhall) achieved 4th place and the Whakarongo Figure-it-Outers  (Ayden Armstrong, Noah McCallum, Johanna Halcox and Forbes Kennedy) gained 2nd place!  Both these teams will continue to the semifinals early next term.

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The Year 5 / 6 event was held this morning (Wednesday).  Our two teams tackled the same challenges as the older students and both teams made a great showing.  The Whakarongo Brainboxes earned a 7th equal placing and the Whakarongo Technology Terrors will also progress to the semifinals with their impressive 3rd place.

 

A huge congratulations to all our competing students.  Your teamwork and commitment to each other was fantastic - I'm really proud of you all.

Thanks also to those families who were able to come and support us at the two events, and to all of you for the conversations and preparations many of you undertook at home.