Robotics Club

Balmoral School has recently set up the opportunity to be involved in a Robotics Club as part of the Lego Mindstorm for education initiative. This is the first year we are looking into entering a team of children to take part in the robotics competition. The competition not only involves programming a Mindstorm robot to enter a set series of challenges, but also involves a large research project.

This entry is to allow you and your teams to discuss and contribute to the ideas around community, and what it is. See the out take from the site instructions. Use this post over the holidays to share your ideas about this big idea.

Begin your project by describing your community. This season, it is up to your team to define your community. Is it your school? your neighborhood? your city, village, or town? your country? the world? Be prepared to share how you defined your community.

Inventions and Innovations

Kia Ora to the best class in the universe!

Welcome back to Term 3. Doesn't time go by so quickly? From the stories you have told in class, I know that you all had a well deserved holiday break and are ready to continue with your amazing learning journey.

Over the next 2 weeks you must research an inventor or innovator. Include these things:

- Name

- Date of Birth and Death (not applicable if they are alive ...)

- Details of who they are

- Details of there inventions/innovations

- Personal comment about their personal characteristics

- References of where you got your information from.

Your inventor/innovator does not need to be world famous, but must have changed something in our world for the better or even for the worse.

Example Inventor: Thomas Edison

Example Innovator: Bill Gates

Looking forward to it!