On Friday, May 9th, we had an engineering workshop with an engineer from Medtronic and a facilitator from The Rediscovery Centre. They gave a talk on engineering as a job which the children found very interesting. The children also got some wonderful insight and interesting information about the work being done in Medtronic and the exciting projects that engineers there get to work on.
The children also got to complete 3 different engineering tasks in small groups. These tasks were: build the tallest tower, build an earthquake resistant building and build a bridge and home for an animal. They had to work as a team, discuss, plan, build, test and make improvements for each task. They had great fun and learned a lot!
