Learning In The Making Conference 2015

Last Friday I took part in the Learning In The Making Conference 2015. Learning In The Making Conference is when students can run or attend fun workshops all day, everyone loves the Learning In The Making Conference. The first workshop was one everyone in Whetu and Marama had to go to. We had a man talk to us about cyber safety. He told us about The Great Firewall Of China and how it blocks people from the outside world. This reminds me about the Phoenix Files how everyone is cut off from the outside world. I would rate this workshop second.

 The next workshop was The Technology Challenge which was my personal favourite. For The Technology Challenge we had to make the tallest structure we could with 20 dried sticks of pasta 1 metre of string and 1 metre of sticky tape and get this the world record for this is held by a group of kindergarten kids. My team won because we built our tower on a table and it leaned down so we won with -15 cm as our hight. I would rate this workshop first.

The following workshop Make a Model ran by Mrs Taaffe was where we had to make a model. My group made a Hawaiian skirt and headdress. The other groups both made dresses. This workshop I would rate fourth.

The next workshop I didn't really like it was The Maths Challenge. We started off with a timetable challenge then one on word problems then finally algorithms. I would rate this workshop fifth.

Finally I went to The Science workshop run by Mrs Barker. In this workshop we had to figure out how to make an electro magnet with a metre of copper wire a D battery and a nail. The magnet had to be strong enough to pick up a paper clip.

I had such a fun day last Friday and I'm sure everyone else did to.

Here is a photo