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EPRO-8 Competition

Katie Morriss —

Clearview had three teams qualify for the EPRO-8 heats that were held at Clearview last week. Below is a snippet from the students about how their challenge went.

Year 7/8 team G.E.E.R - Grace, Evelyn, Ethan and RowanOn Wednesday the 30th of June, we attended the Epro8 challenge at Clearview from 5:00-8:00. They gave us (Evelyn H, Rowan S, Grace D & Ethan D) a booklet with 4 different builds to complete. Each task had its own set of requirements to finish within 2 ⅕ hours. The project that we chose was the Burglar-Proof Safe, which had some compulsory parts that had to be completed, for example, the safe had to be at least 900mm by 900mm, and there had to be lasers bouncing around the safe. It was a tricky challenge to finish as there were other components and wiring that took a lot of time. Because we were working against other teams and the clock, it was very stressful but it was also very fun. In the end, we did not pass through, but we all tried our best to complete the challenge. 

Simba Zone Students-Rowan S, Evelyn H, Grace D & Ethan D

Year 5/6 Golden Gaters - Nixon, Jackson, Daniel and Riley

We make our way into the hall with all the EPRO 8 kits. We look around for our name on the kits...we finally found our kit - The Golden Gaters, Clearview. There was so much tension building up to start. After we went through the briefing it was time to start. After we chose which challenge we were going to do, we started. We heard lots of noise, people dinging their buzzer to get something checked. Then we were counting down. We needed this last challenge done and we would advance. Unfortunately, we didn't get it to work and we came in 6th.

Year 5/6 Brainyax - Sam, Will, Isaac and Austin

Starting off we designed a landmark so we chose Big Ben. We started with the base and built up from there. We came first and made it into regionals. In regionals, you have to build electric stuff. We made a netball hoop where a fan had to blow a balloon for an extra 50 pts.

We also had time to start another challenge so we made a safe with an alarm sensor.