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Bright Awards winner
Bright Awards winner
Kelvin Chen has won the Games category at the 2020 Bright Awards.
Kelvin has created a 2.5D puzzle platformer with an unexpected twist – you can split off and move parts yourself to solve the puzzles. The game includes 25 hand-crafted puzzles, 2 secret levels, 4 collectible objects, and 4 secret paths to explore. The judges complimented Kelvin’s well chosen sounds and impeccable environment design. “The simple yet creative design was highly effective.”
Competition Page
https://www.mediadesignschool.com/news/2020-bright-awards-winners
The game can be played here
Burnside Technology Fair
Burnside Technology Fair
30 November 2020
The inaugural technology fair was a great success with about 100 year 10 students exhibiting their end of year projects. The projects ranged from videogames, podcasts, toys, animations, websites, software, engineering, electronics, stickers, and more. Students displayed their design process from planning to final outcome to their friends and whanau in the form of a poster board. The competition was extremely strong and lots of projects were in the running but finally seven projects got awards, one given out by each digital technology teacher and an overall project award that won the first Burnside Technology Fair trophy.
Thank you very much to all who were able to attend and show your support and especially to Thomas James winner of the Prime Minister’s Future Scientist Prize for 2019 who was our guest judge.
Award Winners
Overall Winner and Comic Sans Award for Awesomeness- Tenzi Tsering, Shadow Box
Principals Choice - Devin Lin, 4 Player Chess Set
Iterative Award - Tom Hayes, Phone Stand
Best Project Idea - Ari Leckie, Electronic Drumkit
Aesthetic Design - Enuri Liyanapathirana and Dilkee Nanayakkara, Denuri Dilemmas Podcast
Best Video Game - Shane Mira-Ato, Rogue Box
Best Engineering Project - Ryan Moynihan, Safety Knife
EVelocity Sucess
EVelocity Sucess
01 Nov 2020
The Burnside High School e-velocity team dominated the 2020 race day. There was a good turnout with nearly 30 vehicles from schools. But Burnside absolutely dominated! We entered 5 teams, our best yet, and all 5 won at least one of their categories totaling 13 awards.
Thanks needs to go to Richard Smith who gave up some weekends and helped these guys in class as well. And, thanks to the Digital staff who have put up with carts all through X Block as we built these up and sorted them in the computer rooms!
Go Burnside.
Link to EVelocity club page
NZ Programming Competition
NZ Programming Competition
Oct 22, 2020
Burnside High School students Isaac Siu, Joseph Grace and Nicholas Grace won the New Zealand Programming contest in the High School grade.
This contest runs every year as a pre-cursor to the world championships and provides a venue for New Zealand’s brightest programmers to test their skills against the best in the country.
Burnside’s top team, who called themselves “Steve++”, scored a massive 212 points, 52 points clear of their nearest rivals from Auckland and 100 points clear of the third place team from Macleans College. The achievement is quite outstanding for a high school team and would have placed them 2nd overall when compared to the scores in all grades including all university and adult open grade teams.
This result continues Burnside's good results in the national programming completion which were also won in 2018.
Earth Guardians Winner
Earth Guardians Winner
31 August 2020
Madeline Head a year 11 digital technology student was the overall winner of the “Earth Guardians” concept art competition, run by the Massey University College of Creative Arts and world renowned design company, Weta Workshop.
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Game Jam Aoetearoa 2020 Teacher Sucess
Game Jam Aoetearoa 2020 Teacher Sucess
6 August 2020
Mr Rodkiss has won the Best Use of Theme award at the Game Jam Aotearoa event with his game "Bungee go Boom". He created a 2 Player cooperative collector game from the theme "Proximity". You need to stay close to your team-mate as you dodge lasers and collect all the coins. Mr Rodkiss is a digital technology teacher at Burnside who runs the Game Design course for year 11-13 students.
The game can be played here:
2019 Prime Ministers Future Scientist Prize Winner
2019 Prime Ministers Future Scientist Prize Winner
1 July 2020
Thomas James designed robot to take wheelie bins to and from the kerb for the elderly and people with disabilities. He has won the $50,000 Prime Minister’s Future Scientist Prize for 2019.
The design and build has taken Thomas over two years and involved substantial physics, technology and design. He’s also consulted with potential users, Age Concern and waste collection company Waste Management, and admits to taking over a living room and the garage at his parents’ house.
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Vex Robotics Nationals - Success at last!
Vex Robotics Nationals - Success at last!
3 March 2020
Burnside High School and Christchurch Boys High School have been involved with Vex Robotics for more than 10 years and Canterbury were finally able to win this prestigious robotics competition. They both made it to the finals where Christchurch Boys High ended up as the Tournament champion after a nail biting final. This is a huge achievement for Canterbury as it is normally the North Island teams that succeed. Therefore, both teams qualified for the Worlds in Louisville, Kentucky in the USA from the 22-25 of April 2020.
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