Centre For Innovation

TechTeras

Tuesday lunchtime 1.00 -1:50pm in WS101

Tutors: Audrey Campbell

TechTeras is a fun technology club offering tasters of emerging technologies. Students can learn film & media elements through animation and movie-making. They can also experience coding and electronics. a past project involved the girls designing and making a car, designing & 3D printing emblems and

If there is a request or a passion this club can investigate further.

Currently, this group has been exploring the App called Kinemaster

Term 4:

Getting familiar with Sphero

Learning to drive them with accuracy by controlling speed and direction.

3D design using Tinkercad - students learned how to locate, manipulate, join and substitute shapes to create mini-golf courses of their choice.

Alexandra kiemaster .mp4

Olivia's Kinemaster..mp4

Film & Media effects with the Kinemaster App

Using a green screen to create effects

Makey Makey

Student have learned to programme the Makey Makey kit to respond when a specific button is touched

Makey Makey

An audio plays when a specific button is touched

Power anchor

Designing a vehicle to be raced around a powered pole.

Students have learned how to:

design and cut the body for a car from corflute
3D print a badge design for their car
understand gear ratios
test their vehicle multiple times to problem solve performance issues

Hot gluing the wheels onto the vehicle

Testing the motor

End outcome

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