Third Class students were thrilled to take part in the Engineers Week Workshop thanks to Gareth Kelly from DKIT. Equipped with their own sets of kinnex, the students were tasked with designing, constructing, testing, finalising and presenting their bridge projects. This was a hugely enjoyable workshop and can be replicated in classrooms using alternative resources to the kinnex sets such as cocktail sticks & jelly sweets, marshmallows & wooden skewer sticks.

Our VEX Robotics project is nearing it's conclusion as we prepare for the regional finals competition in January 2020. Our team from 5th and 6th classes has been very lucky this year to have had our very own arena and scoring elements to practice with. We have built the "clawbot" design and added a few custom features that we think will give us an edge in the competition. We will update this section with more news after the finals.

At Aston Village ETNS we decided to make our annual STEM Fair virtual this year. So, instead of meeting in our school hall for the fair, each class made a video of their projects and we shared the results with each other via our school youtube channel. We have included here the contribution from our 5th Classes who were lucky enough this year to take part in the Cell Explorers DNA in a Box project thanks to our friends at the DKIT Biotechnology Department.