On Thursday and Friday, Hornby High School hosted the EPro8 Challenge.

The EPro8 Challenge is a competition, an engineering and problem solving race. Every year over 9000 students from 800 schools from throughout New Zealand take part.

Teams compete to:

• build large sized structures
• solve practical problems
• engineer using pulleys, motors, gears, wheels and axles
• invent machines that can complete simple tasks
• undertake unusual and fun experiments
• construct basic electronic circuits
• solve interesting problems using practical maths

Our Hornby students joined ten other groups from schools across Christchurch and entered a year 9 team; Just Pigeon. The team was Daniel Kim, Brianna Wilson, Nini Soundala, and Driaan Meintjes.

A fantastic event and excellent turnout!