Senior Syndicate children think 'out of the box'.

The Epro8 Challenge

On Wednesday the 26th of July four people from Wakari School went to Balmac Intermediate and competed in the Epro8 challenge. Our team, Charlie, Ruban, Kade and I had been preparing for this in Term 2. Out of all twelve teams we tied for sixth place. We really enjoyed working as a team and problem solving. I hope to do it again next year.

By Emma Dawson

It was fun at the Epro8. We chose the hardest project there was. The reason why we choose it was because we thought that it looked cool so we did it. We came 6th out of 12  teams. I thought we did quite good. I enjoyed it and I think the others did too.

By Kade Robbie

EPro 8 Challenge

Today Me, Ruban, Emma, and Kade went to the EPro 8 Challenge. It was fun but challenging. We were given a booklet with four challenges. We chose the challenge that was probably the hardest one which was to make a robotic guard dog. It took us about 1 hour to build the dog which gave us 50 points. There were tidy workspace awards - we got 60 points from the 2 inspections. Our next challenge was to make the tail wag. We managed to do that and we got 40 points putting us in 3rd place but with 20 minutes to go we just could not get the dog to automatically bark when the mouth opened so 3 more teams got ahead of us placing us in 6th. Our total score was 150 points. I had a lot of fun and I hope I would do it again.

By Charlie Bauchop

When we went to the Epro 8 I went with Charlie, Kade and Emma.  We got sixth.  Some schools had two teams. When the challenge started we chose the 'Dog' challenge. We had to build it 1m tall and 1.5m long. For the teeth we used rubber bands with screws to loop the rubber around the screws. We were in 3rd place for most of the challenge. Then it got to one part where we had to make the the jaw open and close and when it was open we had to use a 2 second buzzer. We came sixth at the end because we got stuck at the end of the challenge.

By Ruban MacGregor