Robotics And Programming

I think that the wheels need to be stronger not just bundy cups that we get given. Paper cups would easily break there is no point on making a nice model shape if its just going to break straight away. When you think about it what is the point in doing good work but the wheels break and then you think it was a waste of time. I think our group would want to succeed not fail and look bundy. I believe that my group can get a lot work done together but like I said i don't want to waste my time for something that isn't going to work. The materials that we are going to use will probably be legal because that is better than paper or cardboard. Lego is also a easy thing to build with and it connects easier. With paper and cardboard you would either have to tape or glue it together which won't turn out as well as the lego. Looking at other people's projects can help us because they might have a good idea on there model that we don't have and that can help us with our model it doesn't mean we will copy other peoples ideas its just that we will look sometimes if we are stuck. With a lot of people in my group we should all be able to come up with some ideas that can help out. I don't want our group to be some people working and some people talking while the other people in the group is working hard because that isn't fair on the people that are actually working.` 

This here is my mars lander design. I used four wheels to make it move and to make it balanced. I have a rectangle as the body and two poles to hold up my camera for the view.

Lake Daniell

2017 Room 1 Ski Trip Video

Science Writing

Ski Trip

Ski Trip             by Kieran De Klerk

On August the 15th I woke up at 6:00 am in the morning to get ready to go skiing at Porters Heights for the William Pike Challenge. Once I got to school it was 6:45am so it was time to go. I was in a car with Bradley, Aleece, Mr Harris, and Mr Coll as the driver.

On the way to Porters there was nothing really to do except to talk about things. Bradley and I entertained Aleece by annoying her so much.

After about half an hour of the journey I was really bored because, Aleece wouldn't stop talking which was making me bored out of my mind. I could have fell asleep. Finally we were in Arthur’s Pass I was so jealous because, Molly, Allie and Courtney each got a hot chocolate.

Once we arrived at porters I was so excited to go skiing I knew it was going to be so fun. There was a lot of snow on the mountains. The snow was so white it looked like ice cream, but luckily there was no yellow snow on the ski field. After waiting by a pole for about 15 minutes I finally went inside to go get my ski boots and skis. Since it was my first time skiing I never knew how tight the boots were. It felt so weird trying to walk.

Once I got out side Ms Martin told me where to go. She said to go to the beginners slope. Eventually I got to the beginners slope seeing only Jack and Ms Kemp there. Jack and I went down the beginners slope for our first time, I was nervous but excited at the same time. Even though the beginners slope wasn't that fast I didn't have my lessons yet and, I didn’t know how to stop or turn.

Once everyone had met up at the beginner slope we had to have lessons. The man who was teaching me was called Matt, and he showed us the basics of skiing. One of the things that he mainly showed us was how to turn and how to stop. Soon I got the hang of it and the lessons were over.

I skied for a little bit longer until Jayden and I stopped and had some lunch. For lunch I had a yummy bun from the ‘Do Duck In’. After lunch I went back and put my skis on. I showed Ms Kemp what I could do. I passed so she gave me the password to go to the intermediate slope, the password was “Mawhera”.

I was really scared of the intermediate slope but I went with Lochie. I crashed about 20 times out of all my goes but on my last go I got the hang of it and I didn't crash. Then I got bad news from Ms Martin... she said it was time to go, I was so sad. I took off my skis and boots and took them back to the hiring place.

Then it was time to go. Before we left Porters Aleece’s dad got us all a hot chocolate. It was so hot and I couldn't drink it because Bradley kept on making me laugh.

I was so bored and tired on the way back to Greymouth but Brendan, Bradley’s dad, had lollies but not for long, when we had some they were pretty much gone.

Finally we were in GreyMmouth. I was so tired after an amazing day I can't wait till next year skiing was so much fun, I really loved it.