Vector EPro8 Challenge 2018

The Roots at Pt England- No Six video

It has been an amazing experience to have The Roots at Pt England this term helping us create our vertical gardens, water filters, water tanks and teach us so much about the water in our environment.  

We were also lucky to have the crew at No Six helping us, taking beautiful photos and making this awesome video.

No Six is a multi-platform digital media brand curating, developing and connecting a new generation of young content creators from the South Pacific to global audiences. They are based in Tāmaki Glen Innes.

  

Robotics Rōpū Soft Plastic Compactor Prototyping

 

 

Leilani films modifying a plastic bin

This week we started experimenting with compression  to reduce the size our soft plastics recycling bins. 
We are drilling, cutting and sliding small plastic bins as prototypes. 

Freedom compresses rubbish

As much as we compressed the soft plastics, they would expand again. Tha Zin had a 'eureka' moment when she thought of bagging up the plastic before compression.

We don't want to buy any bags. Luckily we had a roll of old plastic lying around so our new challenge was how to turn it into a compression bag.   


                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                              EUREKA!






We are writing down our ideas to record our  learning but the ZTL team had to work together to safely drill holes in their Prototype. They used their laptops to film their learning so they can review their techniques and ideas.













Leilani, Zaeeda and Tha Zin with the ZTL Prototype

Bincurity Slideshow

Robotics Rōpū Kaupapa

Robotics Rōpū begins!

Matt and Carsten from Fisher & Paykel Healthcare help our Robotics Rōpū brainstorm ideas about how we can use technology at Pt England School to reduce waste. 
Our Rōpū  had some amazing ideas and and shared them with each other instantly through shared slides and docs. We are using our blogs to share our progress with the school and the world. 

Motutapu Tree Planting

On Sunday we went travelled by ferry to Motutapu Island to help the Motutapu Restoration Trust plant native trees.

 By the end of the day we had planted 900 trees!

Thank you David, Christine and the Kiwanis group for providing this amazing opportunity for students to represent Pt England for the second year in a row. We can't wait to go back next year!