It was a really high quality competition on the evening of Wednesday 21 October, with some amazing things built. Our team, the PC Potatoes: Quinn Vernon Y8, Hamish Thomas Y8, Sofia Arlund Y8 and Alex Tilby-Adams Y8 performed so well.

They built an amazing Mars rover (pictured below) and were only one placing off making the Year 7/8 grand final next week!

Super effort team! Well done!

***What is the EPro8 Science and Technology Challenge?****

The EPro8 Challenge is an engineering and problem solving competition. Every year over 10,000 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 simple machines
• undertake fun experiments
• construct electronic circuits
• solve practical maths problems