A couple of week ago, Puketaha School had 4 teams of Year 5-8 children participate in the E-Pro8 Challenge. The E-Pro8 challenge is an engineering and problem solving competition where teams are presented with a variety of problems to choose from. Using the equipment provided to them in their workstation, the teams of 4 work together to complete the challenges. It was an intense 3 hours! All the children represented our school so well, showing how they can think outside the box, work collaboratively and persevere when faced with new challenges.

One of our Year 7 and 8 teams performed particularly well and won the Hamilton heat, which was a real achievement. Congratulations to Timothy Dobbs, Isabella McCarthy, Elizabeth Macdonald and Cameron Jonkers.

They will now go into the Semi Finals which will be held on Wednesday the 3rd of July at Maeroa Intermediate, 5pm- 8pm. We wish them good luck for this next stage in the event.