Yesterday we had a technology day and a man came in called Mr Williams. First he showed us all of the pieces that we would use. We then got into groups of three; I was in a group with Jacob and Evie. We used a laptop and programmed a light called a sparkle to light up. It was tricky because there were cables attached to a programming chip called a crumble. Then we attached two more sparkles to the first sparkle and made the lights go in a sequence of different colours.
After that we made a wheel connect to a motor and made the wheel go forward and then reverse. It was really tricky because we had to program it from the laptop to the crumble which was connected to the motor, but when it worked it was GREAT! After that we made the speeds go in a sequence from slow to fast to even faster then to slow again. Then we stopped it.
Soon we had a challenge to make either a spin around ballerina, a spin around carousel, a light up haunted house or a night time house or our own creation. We chose a light up haunted house. We used a sparkle baton which had eight lights on. We lit the house’s windows to a red and then a green to a blue. It was FANTASTIC! Mr Williams said that we could make a car so we tried, but our car went in circles over and over again! After that Mr Williams had to go so we said Thank you and then he packed up his pieces together and then he wheeled his pieces out of our classroom.