Every year we use K’nex to help us to explore and improve our construction and engineering skills. This year, our K’nex challenge became part of our Engineering Week 2014 set of activities. Previous challenges include building a bridge, building a lifeboat and building a quad bike.
This year we decided to have a local slant on the activity. As you all know, Bray is the hometown of Katie Taylor. We set a challenge to the students to build a tower called after Katie, that would be the centre-point if Bray ever hosted the Olympics. We can dream! The design needed to be:
1. Between 50cm and 1m tall.
2. Secure enough to stand alone (without support!) and able to withstand weather like the gales we have at the minute!
3. It also needed to be colourful, well planned and have a revolving restaurant at the top!
2nd and 5th class paired up into groups and we had a ball completing the challenge. All of the entries are pictured below, in photos and in the videos. I think you’ll agree that the results were amazing!
Congratulations to Davy, Aaron and Nathan for winning the challenge. It was so hard to pick a winner! We can’t wait for the K’nex Challenge for Engineering Week 2015!
The finalists:
More wonderful entries!
The Winners!
10:49 am on February 15th, 2014
They look pretty cool
9:21 pm on February 21st, 2014
Awesome, how did you guys make that?!
9:31 am on February 25th, 2014
They are deadly. How did you make that? 🙁 I wish I could make them!
10:34 am on June 4th, 2014
I found That it was AMAZING fun and we should do it more often. I wish my team won but I’d be afraid that it might topple over!