Painting and Gardening
There were two parts to our challenge. Some of us planted up tubs to go in the quad with flowers in the school colours, we also made hanging baskets, we hope that they will brighten up the area and make the quad look more inviting. The rest of us have been making murals to go on the walls of the quad. We started by sketching out a design on huge sheets of paper over which we laid big sheets of clear plastic. We went over the outline of our design with special inks and then added all the colours. The murals look ace and we are looking forward to seeing them up on the wall. We had a brilliant week, it was really fun!
Computer Programming
On the Computer Programming challenge we had to construct a robot using the Lego Mindstorms EV3 Robotics kits and program it to complete an obstacle course without hitting anything. It was very difficult to program the robot successfully so that it wouldn’t hit any of the boxes but we managed to do it eventually! Later in the week we modified our robots to complete another challenge whereby we had to carry out a series of tasks to do with the journey food takes from the farm to table. Overall we really enjoyed the week and learnt loads about programming which was really interesting.
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