Last week, the same 4 black boxes appeared in my classroom, Mrs George told us that we would be doing Epro8 again. Epro8 is an engineering program for kids that are year 6-8. She started off by showing us a video from the Epro8 website. The man in the video showed us how to pack up all the essentials that we needed. He also showed us where all the objects go and how to put it in. Before we started building, Mrs George split us up into groups and started off by watching a video in our groups that tells us what we build and tips to use along the way. The first thing we had to build was a hut, with a bridge that could go up and down. A hut that could survive and be stabilized during a hurricane, cyclone or maybe even a tornado. My group came up with a name and decided to be called The Almighty Engineer’s. We, The Almighty Engineer’s started with the base together with the building of the hut. After connecting the base to the hut, we started to build the roof and bridge.
Once we had finished doing our first few steps, we moved on to attaching the bridge on to the building. Our first attempt was not what we expected, the building was crooked, so we had to rebuild the base but had to make sure it was the exact same height using a measuring tape. After rebuilding our base, it was finally time t put on our bridge. We used the rope to pull the bridge up and the winder to wined up the bridge that is attached to the rope. It took us a while to get the exact position to pull up the bridge, but then we noticed that our bridge wasn’t steady at all. So we added little metal sticks in between the base and it was finally steady enough for the bridge to pull up.We were all so happy that we had successfully made our hut with a pull up bridge.