On Wednesday evening, the year 7s and 8s went to Cobham Intermediate for the EPro8 Challenge. I was picked for the year 7 team. There are two year 7 and 8 teams. In my team there was Axle, Zayd, Lars and I. Our team name was the "Hornby MENcanics". I was really excited to go to Cobham Intermediate because it was my first time doing EPro 8. We had to look at the booklet what we had to do, but we can only look when its time starts. It was a top secret what was in the book. We had two hours and 30 minutes to build and make points as much as we can. When we started we the judge showed every part and how to use them. We went of and started, we decided to make a bed for Uncle Albert (the character for the bed). Also we had to make a light by switching the button on and snoozing at the same time By then it had half and hour passed, we hadn't made Uncle Albert's bed. We decided not to work on to make the light and snoozing. We had wasted that time for nothing and we were last for 0 points. After finishing a task the judge scores the points and the points come in the leaderboard. Making the bed for Uncle Albert was 50 points. We were in 12th place with 50 points. After we made light and a snoozer with a solar panel. We had made a light with a snoozer on a table. We had connected it together. There were heaps of wires and connectives that were on our working station.
15 minutes left...
We were in 5th place and we were really getting points. Our next activity was to make Uncle Albert fall down the bed. It was worth for 60 points. We were ready for the challenge and when we were making Uncle Albert fall down, we were dropped down places to 7th place. To get in the semi-finals you need to get fourth place or up. We wanted to go in the semi-finals. It was 10 minutes left and we tried our test. We also had a time delay and the bed broke. We added some more support to the bed and and pressed the red button. Means if you finish a task you press the red button and the judge checks if you get points or not. By that time the other teams had pressed the red button and there was 30 seconds left. The judge didn't check any of the teams because there was less time and there were heaps of teams to check on. The judge checked out the near teams. Actually we pressed the button first.
10 seconds left...
There was the countdown, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. The competition had come to a end. We were in 7th place and wanted to jump to fourth place. The judge said if you haven't pressed the button you tidy up your working station. When the other teams tidied up their working station the judge checked out each teams work. Our working station was at the end, so we waited and didn't touch any work that we had done or we would've been disqualified. It didn't took long the judge to come. When the judge came he tried the work. Last time he came to check I had held the table, the judge said not to touch the table or the points wouldn't count. We had made the table more stronger. I didn't held the table. The light shined, the snoozer went on, the bed titled and... Uncle Albert fell down the bed. "Yes!" we said. It worked, we got 60 points and we were in 6th place.
I hope you like my post of the EPro8 challenge. Have a cool day!! Bye!!
