Breens Intermediate competitors achieved the top 3 places in the Epro 8 Canterbury heats.

In the first 4 weeks of term 3 the Epro8 teams at Breens Intermediate competed online against other schools in the North of Christchurch.

The Epro8 Challenge is a year 5-10 challenge around Engineer, Problem Solving and Innovation.

The brief was:

The mayor of your town has had a fantastic idea for a new tourist attraction: A zoo full of robotic creatures. The zoo will have a collection of all sorts of robotic creatures, from ants to lions, snakes to eagles.

Your team will build a prototype robotic creature. You can choose any creature that you like. Your creation won’t look like the real creature, but instead a robot version of the creature. It will have one moving feature that will capture the essence of that creature.

The robotic creatures will all be 1 to 2m long. This means giant ants and small giraffes. Because it is a tourist attraction, the mayor wants eachrobotic creature will make the visitors go “WOW”. The WOW factor will be the test of the winning entry.

The 4 Breens Intermediate Teams placed so well out of over 20 teams.

First Place Overall

Dodecahedrons: Kieran Watson, Linckon Guy, Andrew Williams and Lucca Newsham-West. They created a shark with a moving jaw and dorsel fin.

Second Place Overall

(Great Name Still Pending)...: Stella Jones, Madi Riley, Taylor Blackbourn and Samuel Dagger. They created a praying mantis with moving pincers.

Third Place Overall

Awesome People: Juno Rainey, Avni Parbhu, Arielle Lansley and Harri Faithful. They created a deer with a moving head.

14th Place Overall

Breens Intermediate 4: Shaun Taki, Riley McMorran, Feidhlim Dodds and Jessie Dowers. They created a penguin which slides on its stomach.

Thank you to Mrs Maclennan for all the hard work she has put into the teams.

The semi finals are being held on the 1st of September and we wish our teams good luck!