Isabella's cushion

 

Kelly's cushion

Work in progress

Haana's cushion

"Peas in a pod" by Rosa

Sophia's cushion

Brainstorming by Lieanna

Lieanna's cushion

Celebrating IDENTITY

 2015

In DPE 1 for the first unit of the year the students were given the opportunity to explore identity.

 It all started with Action Stations.

Celebrating ELECTIVES.

Working with Mrs Brown and Mrs Dowman, a group of students had the opportunity to create crazy patchwork in fabric. Using this fabric each student worked with focus to pin on a pattern, to cut out the shapes and to sew it up.
Instant sucess!  Look at what was achieved. There was more than one Elephant in the room!

MARKET DAY

For the last challenge of the year in DPE the students were asked to work towards running a Market Day stall where the items that they designed and made were to be available for sale.
The students worked with enthusiasm over the term and produced a wide variety of items as illustrated in the photos.
The aim of this Challenge was for the students to raise money for a community service in our local Johnsonville area. Wellington Free Ambulance was selected and over $2000.00 was donated.

The students had a lot of fun making Miniature Creations

Using the 3DPrinter allowed for some very creative design work and original ideas for cellphone holders

The success story was this student sold over 50 notice boards

 

   Here is product development working with Electronics.

 Miniature Creations 

Presenting the cheque to 

Wellington Free Ambulance

Our trip to the National Library to see the Leading Edge Exhibition.

We had the opportunity to see the inventions and innovations made by New Zealanders. 

The Yike Bike was the most popular design innovation on display. 

We also got to view the Design And Production Processs  on the wall.The icons made it easy to understand.

Market Day Action Stations

Market Day Action Stations

Moving between spaces to complete our work.

When we needed a sturdy container to protect our circuit we are able to move through to the DPE Suite 2 to use the laser cutter. Great results can be achieved.

Moving between spaces to complete our work.

When we needed a sturdy container to protect our circuit we are able to move through to the DPE Suite 2 to use the laser cutter. Great results can be achieved.

Great things come in packages

Robotic Lego has arrived too

Investigating Robotics

The bug helped us explore how a solar panel works.

Action Stations. Round 2

Yes, you can heat water in a paper saucepan

Paper saucepan?

Checking out if it possible to heat water in a paper saucepan. A lot of fun was had and yes,it is possible. The question then was to explain how the paper did not burn.

Musical talent

Making Music with Electronics

The challenge was to create a marble run to take the longest time to run. The classroom was taken over by the inventors who strung the marble runs from the ceiling,the walls the doors and the table and chairs. Great fun and it was a great competition to find the longest run.