Last Wednesday a team from Room 8 competed in the EPro 8 Challenge which is an engineering and problem solving race. Our Team, called 'The Saints,' Anamaria, Kevin, Roneeza and Xavier were based at a workstation containing an impressive assortment of easy
to use parts and equipment. The 3 hour event began with a tutorial on the
equipment all the teams would use. They were given a booklet containing a
number of challenges. The teams chose which challenge they wished to
undertake. The Saints chose to build an elevator. The harder the challenge, the
more points it was worth. There is not enough time to finish all the challenges
- so strategy is required to know which ones to go for. When the teams had
completed a challenge they pushed the "Big Red Button". They were
then judged and the points added to a live leaderboard. We were so proud
of The Saints and plan to participate again next year!
