To great excitement, Miss Mortimer announced the lucky 6 who are to attend the Science Centre. Bilal Ahmed and Robbie Hussain will represent the Energy group, Francois Husson and Dougie Whittington will represent the engineering group, Annie Legg will represent the P7 group and Euan Hussain will go as the group’s communications leader (it is Euan who composes the original version of all blog entries!).

This week we also got a summary of STEM so far from each group:

“Over the past few weeks, we have been planning what the P7 will be doing. We have decided we will be doing a selection of different things for the P7s when they come up” – Amy Walker, Captain of the P7 group. 

“Throughout STEM we have looked at various different types of energy. We are mainly looking at Solar Energy” – Robbie Hussain, Co-ordinator of the Energy Group.

“Over the entire term we have programmed a robot, built robots and considered programming” – Steven Clark, Engineering Group Leader.

Unfortunately, Miss Mortimer was busy on Duke of Edinburgh business so the results for who is going on the Science Centre trip have been delayed until our next session!

In the club this week, the energy group used their soldering skills to create a charging station to charge some batteries powered by solar cells. The soldering iron was used to melt some tin, which is then put onto the wires. When it solidifies it keeps the wires locked in place.

Check back next week for a larger update!

The first half of this week’s session was taken up by speeches. We require two members of the Energy group, two members of the Engineering group and one member of the P7 group to be nominated for the trip to the Glasgow Science Centre.

Plenty of pupils are keen to go and Robbie Hussain, Bilal Ahmed and Euan Moffat made their speeches on behalf of the Energy group, whilst Francis Husson, David Christie and Dougie Whittington wished to represent the Engineering group. The P7 group will be represented by either Annie Legg or Leigh Lawson. Results will be posted on this blog next week – so make sure you check back then!

The rest of this week’s session was taken up with further practical work. The P7 group are writing a letter to the P7 classes of Williamwood’s associated primaries; Busby, Carolside and Netherlee. They are also designing a poster to advertise the club.

The Engineering group split into two sub-teams. One of the teams is looking to make the Mars Rover spin in a spiral.

Finally, the Energy group continued to use the soldering techniques they learnt last week to make solar cells.