On Tuesday 27th June, 8 schools met for a competition at Kaiapoi North for an E-Pro 8 challenge. The challenge lasted 2 and a half hours, there were 4 challenges to complete. Those four challenges were pendulum clock, rat trap, thunder storm and car wash during this you would be completing a challenge to create. For example, working clock or a car wash to clean a car.
When our team arrived we got into our group’s and then Kelvin the instructor/ judge taught us how to use the equipment and then we chose our challenge we wanted to create, we chose a Car wash then we begin to build a carwash then decided to create a pendulum clock instead we started with the structure and then began to create the pulley system which is gears with rope which is connected to a weight. Then we made a pendulum which we had to have it swing at the right speed and it took us a long time to get it right but then we got there eventually.
Written by Alexander and Isabelle