EPro8 2020 Challenge

posted: Thu, October 29, 2020

Congratulations to our year 5/6 team (Wade, Bashy, Nicholas and Raahi) for making it through to the semi-finals last Friday. They came second out of 11 teams and are now qualified to enter the finals this Friday, 30 October.

Thank you to all the parents who assisted with transport and supervision on the day, your support was very much appreciated.

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

Competitions are held throughout New Zealand.

Please see a selection of photos from the day (thank you Natasha Barnett).