The second annual Technology Fair was bigger and better than last year with more entries and some incredible projects getting showcased. 

On December 8th over 100 year 10 students presented their final Digital Technology projects. The products ranged from video games, toys, animations, websites, software, engineering, electronics, and more. Students displayed their design process from planning to final outcome to their friends and the staff in the form of a poster board. The projects were then judged on outcome, process, and originality. Like last year the incredible caliber of the projects made judging incredibly difficult even with the increased number of awards this year.

Thank you very much to all the students and staff who were able to attend and show your support.

Burnside High School's top programming team won the New Zealand Programming Contest that was held on Saturday the 11th of September.

The team, known as "steve++" were top in the High School Grade and outperformed nearly every other team in all the other grades, including professional programmers and university teams.

Well done to Nicholas Grace, Hanan Fokkens and Isaac Siu for their outstanding performance.

13th of August

Between 26 July - 06 August, 4 Burnside teams competed in the Global Game Jam event for secondary school students. They had 2 weeks to design and make a video game with help and support of several day long .

Here are some of the links to the games they made!

Cabbage Rumble

Re-Presentation 

19 July 2021

Burnside's very own SRCoder (aka. Mr Rodkiss!) has made it to 2k subscribers! If you want videos on Blender, Unity3d, C# Programming, Construct 2 or Game Development look no further. Check it out on the following link!

Link to Youtube Channel

Three teams from Burnside competed in the recent Vex Robotics National Series in Christchurch. 

Team 4076X won the prestigious Design Award and came second in the Skills Division. A fun day for all. 

02 Feb 2021

Burnside's own game development teacher has reached 1,000 subscribers on his Youtube channel. Mr Rodkiss uploads videos on game design and development with a focus on Unity 3D.

Link to Youtube Channel

Mark Planner took a small team in the December holiday to Palmerston North to compete at the 2020 Vex IQ Nationals. Jerry Wen, Monet Mo and William Wang, all from year 9, were the first Burnside students to compete at this competition. The competition standard was very high.

They were placed 23 out of 38 teams in the middle school division, with an average score of 22 points per match over a series of 11 matches. By comparison the top two teams were scoring between 50 and 70 points per match.

Members of the winning teams have typically had 4 years of experience of building, programming and competing at the national level. For our boys this was their first attempt. The boys were praised for their quiet and calm approach and for their positive interactions with the other teams. 

Well done! And thank you to Mark for spending the first week of the holiday with them. Go the Vex Robotics Club site for more information.