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About 3 months ago, 4 people got picked to go to the Vector Epro8 Engineering Competition. Epro8 stands for Engineer, Problem solve and Innovate, the 3 main topics of Epro8. In the heats we - Me, Noah, Jaimie and Angelina - made a ginormous rat wheel that had to generate electricity.
Our rat wheel got us to 3rd and we made it to the semifinals.
There were 8 semifinals being held all over the country, and from each semi, 3 teams went through to the grand finals.
This time the challenges were way harder and we ended up 6th after making a conveyor belt that transported fruit into a basket and cleaned the fruit at the same time.
The judge was named Andrew but he told us to call him Your Majesty. He seemed a little rough with the parts, and when we forgot to screw a motor in he knocked it off and said we broke it! Later on he also broke our gearbox ( A group of gears used to either speed or slow down the gears ). Our conveyor belt transported a banana through 2 lasers activating a light (Water) to wash the banana.
Overall it was a really fun day and I hope that I will be able to go back next year!
Blog ya later!
About 3 months ago, 4 people got picked to go to the Vector Epro8 Engineering Competition. Epro8 stands for Engineer, Problem solve and Innovate, the 3 main topics of Epro8. In the heats we - Me, Noah, Jaimie and Angelina - made a ginormous rat wheel that had to generate electricity.
Our rat wheel got us to 3rd and we made it to the semifinals.
There were 8 semifinals being held all over the country, and from each semi, 3 teams went through to the grand finals.
This time the challenges were way harder and we ended up 6th after making a conveyor belt that transported fruit into a basket and cleaned the fruit at the same time.
The judge was named Andrew but he told us to call him Your Majesty. He seemed a little rough with the parts, and when we forgot to screw a motor in he knocked it off and said we broke it! Later on he also broke our gearbox ( A group of gears used to either speed or slow down the gears ). Our conveyor belt transported a banana through 2 lasers activating a light (Water) to wash the banana.
Overall it was a really fun day and I hope that I will be able to go back next year!
Blog ya later!
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