Xperience Engineering Challenge Group 6

Our group decided to make an Oyster. An oyster is a machine in the water that is used to generate electricity. Our Oyster was 3-D and we used K’Nex to build it. We really enjoyed using the K’Nex to build out Oyster.


Xperience Engineering Challenge Group 5

We did a project about wave energy. We got the K’Nex kits on Monday 7th March. For the first day we were allowed to build anything. By the second day we had the choice of building either a Pelamis or an Oyster. We did individual creations at first. Vita built a Pelamis, Shauna and Louise both built Oysters. Later we all took Louise’s plan
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Xperience Engineering Challenge Group 4

We built an Oyster. It is a machine that is built on the sea bed. The moving of the waves cause the top of the Oyster to move in and out, causing two pistons to move in and out. This pushes pressurised water into a small tube. The pressurised water is pumped onshore to a generator which produces electricity. We built a model of
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Xperience Engineering Challenge Group 3

For our K’Nex experience we had to build a pelamis or an oyster. Our group Neasa H, Hannah B and Claire Mc V, decided to do an oyster. For the first step we had to design a plan of what we were doing. We used our plans to construct our Oyster out of K’Nex. We replaced lots of pieces to improve it. Finally we
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Xperience Engineering Challenge Group 2

There are two people in our group, Claire and Meadhbh. For the K’nex challenge we built a Pelamis. A Pelamis is like a giant sea snake in the water. When the water pushes the pistons in and out the movement generates electricity. We really enjoyed building the Pelamis. We also learned a lot about wave energy. We were very pleased to see that when
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Xperience Engineering Challenge Group 1

For the K’NEX challenge our group, Aoife, Emer and Sarah, decided to build an oyster. An oyster is a machine that is in the water and uses waves to produce power. As the lid of the oyster goes up and down as the motor turns the generator starts to turn which produces electricity and goes back to shore.


Superkiddos Send Us Treats

Our class and a class in Indiana USA that we met on Twitter are using “Snail mail” to send treats to each other. There are different kinds of treats in the box that they are sending us and they have given us a sneak peek of what they are sending us. Click HERE to read what some of them are on their blog. Click
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Spring Flickr Lunes

On Tuesday a few weeks ago we made Flickr Lunes on our iPods. There were seven Spring animals that we had to choose from. Mr. Quinn numvered them and gave each of us a number. The animals were piglets, chicks, goslings, lambs, calves, cygnets and foals. A Flickr Lune is a three line poem. The firts line has three words, the sencond line has
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Trans-Atlantic Sweet Postage

We are sending a box of sweets over to Indiana USA. We are sending them to @superkiddos who are a school we know on Twitter. We decided to swap sweets with them. We are sending them some of the sweets that they don’t have and we do have. They are sending us sweets that we can’t get in Ireland. Before we sent the sweets over,
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Twitter Profile Picture

Mr. Quinn’s class regularly use Twitter in the classroom to let people know what we are doing in class and to find out information. Up to this we have been using the standard Twitter profile picture which is a purple egg! So we decided to make our own Twitter profile picture. We had a competition in the class to design a new profile picture
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