Problem Solving Challenge - Day 5

Today we had to make a pulley that would lift a full water bottle in a plastic bag, up a 3 meter height. We only had newspaper and tape to use. The idea was to life the water up as fast as you could and sit it on the top platform. If the pulley broke, then your group was out. The winning team was the and it only to them 9 SECONDS! They were really fast and their pulley was very strong.

Problem Solving Challenge - Day 4

Our fourth challenge was to make a house! It had to have 2 rooms, a door that opened and closed and a roof. A pretend person about 10cm high had to be able to fit through the door easily. For this challenge we had newspaper, tape, string and scissors. The group that won this challenge was the Otters. Megan decided on theirs because they put time and effort into the outside structure of their house so it was really strong.

Problem Solving Challenge - Day 3

Our third challenge was to make an emergency stretcher using only newspaper, tape and string. The stretcher had to carry a full water bottle plus a container of water across the adventure playground. The group who could get across the playground the quickest and have the most water left in the container won. This went to the Buzzy Bees who lost very little water and managed to get across the playground in 1 minute 23 seconds.

Problem Solving Challenge - Day 2

Today our challenge was to create a tower as high as possible, using only dry spaghetti and marshmallows. We were given a packet of spaghetti and only 20 marshmallows. Megan also had to be able to put a small weight on the tower and it needed to stay there for 30 seconds. This challenge was quite tricky. Some groups would get their tower quite high but then it would fall. NZ creations (Tamzin, Sophie, Jessica and Kayla) took this challenge out for the second day in a row.

Problem Solving Challenge - Day 1

Each day this week, we will be doing a problem solving challenge in a group. Today we needed to create a Wearable Art using newspaper, string, straws, tape and scissors. The outfit had to have an NZ theme to it. We were judged by Megan on our Creativeness, NZ theme, Presentation and our design had to stay on our model during the parade.
It was heaps of fun and everyone worked well together. Todays challenge was won by NZ Creations (Tamzin, Sophie, Jessica and Kayla)