{"id":186,"date":"2025-11-04T15:39:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/?p=186"},"modified":"2025-11-07T22:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:15:35","slug":"p7-vexgo-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/2025\/11\/04\/p7-vexgo-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"P7 VexGo Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">Today we started our first STEM Lab using the new school Vex Go kits.\u00a0 We learned how to build with the kit and designed our own machines first. Mrs Ross and Mrs Conetta were very impressed with our creativity and build skills.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-179 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/11\/07213436\/IMG_6867-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/11\/07213436\/IMG_6867-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/11\/07213436\/IMG_6867-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/11\/07213436\/IMG_6867-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/11\/07213436\/IMG_6867.jpeg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">Working in groups, we then followed the step by step instructions to build or Base Robots. We then practised using the drive mode to move our robots around our table. After some trial and error using different driving styles it was time for competitions. We built our racing track and raced each others robots through the slalom. Well done to Olivia our racing winner this week!<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-178 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/11\/07213432\/IMG_6868-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/11\/07213432\/IMG_6868-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/11\/07213432\/IMG_6868-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/11\/07213432\/IMG_6868-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/11\/07213432\/IMG_6868.jpeg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #800080\">We are looking forward to STEM Lab 2 next week where we will be learning to code our robots.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-188 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/11\/07215559\/IMG_6874-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/11\/07215559\/IMG_6874-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/11\/07215559\/IMG_6874-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/11\/07215559\/IMG_6874-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/fenwickprimary72526\/uploads\/sites\/20814\/2025\/11\/07215559\/IMG_6874.jpeg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we started our first STEM Lab using the new school Vex Go kits.\u00a0 We learned how to build with the kit and designed our own machines first. Mrs Ross and Mrs Conetta were very impressed with our creativity and build skills. Working in groups, we then followed the step by step instructions to build &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/2025\/11\/04\/p7-vexgo-robots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">P7 VexGo Robots<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,46,48,47],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-article-17","tag-article-29","tag-stem","tag-vexgo","eportfolio_category-technologies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/fenwickprimary72526\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}