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Monday, March 1, 2021

The Whakarongo Smarties

 The Whakarongo Smarties spent week 4 constructing their solution to the 2021 Epro8 Challenge  - our first team to compete this year.  The teams have been tasked with building a famous landmark to scale.  They need to make it structurally sound - able to withstand an earthquake test.  Their proportions need to be accurate and to a scale of their choosing, so long as the structure is less that 2m at is largest point.

Here are some pictures of the team under way:











The Smarties chose the Burg Al Arab, a famous building in Dubai which stands on its own island.


Once the final structure was complete, teams then had to devise a launch mechanism for a number of party poppers in order to simulate a fireworks celebration over their famous landmark.  Here's the successful mechanism in action!




A great effort team - it was great to watch you work together to design and trouble shoot your model.  


                    



One team down - three more to go!








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