On Thursday 19 September four students represented Mana College at the EPRO8 challenge

Students involved were Lily Rogers, Tyler Dawson, Matthew Turchie from year 9 and Jack Chapman from year 10.

The students had 2.5 hours to work their way through various challenges and gained points for completing aspects of the challenge.

The Mana team chose to build a tower for a roller-coaster. They had to build a structure so that they could roll a ball down tracks that were attached to all four sides of the tower, the ball then had to dropat least 30cm onto another track, then move onto a seesaw, rolling from side to side at least three times and then when the ball reached the end of the ride a second ball had to be released to begin the same journey.

Overall the team managed to complete 5 of the 6 challenges for the roller-coaster and gained 290 points.

This score put them into 3rd equal place and means that they are eligible to compete in the Wellington region semi-finals next term.