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S5/6 Architecture pupils working on their sketching skills – starting off with amazing sketches of our school building #WWHSDAT #NPAArchitecture

 

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE 2022-2023:

Our S1-3 pupils took part in the annual First LEGO League competition. The team celebrated success where they were awarded for their unique innovation design and top level programming skills. This years season was:

 

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE 2021-2022:

In 2022, our S1/2 pupils in the DAT Robotics Club successfully secured their position at the FIRST LEGO League Scottish National Final. This years theme was ‘Cargo Connect’.

The National Final took place in Dundee where the team made it to the Semi Final round. The team worked hard to ensure they were able to complete as many missions as they could when in the robot game. They left the competition with an amazing score of 225pts! They also spent many hours as a team developing their innovation project to present to the panel of judges. All pupils really showcases our school values & the FLL core values on the day.

Congratulations Team!

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE 2019-2020:

The DAT Robotics Club entered the FIRST LEGO League competition where they reached the Scottish National Finals for the 1st time. This years theme was ‘City Shapers’.

At the Scottish finals the team secured the ‘Future Engineers Award’ from the judges.

Congratulations!

FIRST LEGO LEAGUE 2016-2017:

Our S1/S2 pupils  involved in the FIRST^® LEGO^® league competition. FIRST^® LEGO^® League is a global science and technology challenge for teams of students, to encourage an interest in real world issues and develop key skills that are crucial for their future careers. The students work together to explore a given topic and to design, build and program an autonomous LEGO robot to solve a series of missions.

Teams build a robot using a LEGO® MINDSTORMS® kit that they program to autonomously complete a series of missions on a specialised field and to score as many points as possible. This years challenge is based on recycling and the environment. For further information click here.

More information on the competition can be found here: http://firstlegoleague.theiet.org/

 

#DATCreativeIndustries:Product Design. Sophie (S5)’s Higher D&M unit folio designing a chair for those attending a festival. Below you can see Sophie’s designs for a portable/collapsible chair with the design theme of:

 

#DATCreativeIndustries:Graphic Design & Marketing. Robin (S6)’s hard work for his D&T’s Architecture & Creative Industries project!  #WWHSDAT

Robin has used D&T’s Inventor Professional to create his 3D camera model. This is an industry standard software linked to various creative industry fields: product design, architecture, interior design, numerous engineering fields & many more

Robin has used the skills from higher graphics and has developed them further to produce the wonderful promotional graphics shown below

 

 

Our 1st project was to design a blazer pin…

Sophia brought her vision of a BLT bagel to life using copper and brass – the finished product is shown below! Well done Sophia !

Hope designed this lovely ‘E’ pin using copper and brass and gifted this to her sister for Christmas. Well done Hope !

D&T’s BGE Excellence and Progression Awards (rotation 1 & 2).
If you have not yet received your badge, please come and see Miss Fox is the Design and Technology department.

Congratulations everyone 🥳 !!