Week 7 Term 2

This week I have a very exciting post to talk about! This Thursday evening I went to a competition held at my school called the EPro8 Challenge. The name stands for Electronics Problem Solving Challenge. We have entered four different teams of four people which most of them are from room 3 (cause were amazing), except for one person... Bla. Bla. Blake .-. He was in my team with two others, Kaleb and Ben. Other teams had other people which I couldn't remember clearly so lets skip to the competition now. The event started at 6 o'clock with 15 minutes for the judge to talk us through the things we have. I had really big faith in our team and I trusted them a lot. There was a live countdown and live points scoreboard on a big screen TV which was a bit.. I'm not sure how to explain the feeling but I was kind of nervous. At the 10 second countdown we raced towards our station to read the design brief. There were three different things we could make, a crane, a swing or a mars rover. Which did we choose? Obviously the mars rover cause it really did sound quite cool. Straight on we started building the frame. The good thing about our team is that each person is good at one thing, and all four of us combined turns us into mini Einsteins. I am good with Electronics and little bit of everything, Kaleb is good at gears and motors, Blake is good at practically a bit of everything and Ben is good at calculating correctly. I would say we did a good job. We decided to work in parts of two for the same goal, also known as teamwork. First we put the frame together, and then the wheels, motors, gears and electronics. I had to re-wire a dozens of times in order for the rover to work. I was just about to give up when everyone cheered me on and saying that I can do this. I happily accepted and tried again. With my luck this time, I figured the problem out which changed us from third place to whooping first equal place. Want to hear something cooler? Only two out of all the teams have successfully done this so woohoo :) I cannot wait till the semi-finals in 17 days.