On Friday, P7 enjoyed travelling to the RGU campus and experiencing 3 techfest activities. Our first activity was a knex lighthouse workshop. Pupils were tasked with creating the tallest and strongest structure that could support a light. The teams worked effectively together and everyone contributed to the task. Some teams showed excellent organisational skills, in that they created their ideas for their model quickly and had the time to build tall and intricate designs, Other teams showed great perseverance and were able to adapt their ideas several times until they achieved a successful model. Well done to all. One group’s model (Greg, Summer and Finley) was so impressive the presenter of the workshop saved it at the end, to show the subsequent groups.

The next activity was exploring chemistry in cooking, where pupils made ice cream using liquid nitrogen and watched Jeff, the jellybaby, sacrifice himself in the name of science to show how much energy he contained.

Our final workshop was about how sound was created by vibrations. Here we learnt about different types of sound wave and how sound is created. All in all the trip was successful because it was enjoyable and we all learnt something new.