{"id":7525,"date":"2022-12-07T16:18:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/?p=7525"},"modified":"2022-12-07T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:19:01","slug":"christmas-engineering-challenge-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/2022\/12\/07\/christmas-engineering-challenge-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Engineering Challenge Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NLC Learning Hub has issued a Christmas Engineering Challenge:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161030\/challenge.png.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7526\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/2022\/12\/07\/christmas-engineering-challenge-part-1\/challenge-png\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161030\/challenge.png.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,636\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"challenge.png\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161030\/challenge.png-300x212.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161030\/challenge.png.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7526\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161030\/challenge.png.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Engineering Challenge Can you design and build a Christmas themed structure with a moving part, an electronic component and an element of coding?\" width=\"900\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161030\/challenge.png.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161030\/challenge.png-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161030\/challenge.png-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The biggies started work this morning. We are making Reindeer from Cardboard and hope to include movement, electrics &amp; coding. It might take a while&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 720px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-7525-1\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" poster=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161032\/making-mistakes-480.jpg\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161040\/making-mistakes-480.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161040\/making-mistakes-480.mp4\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161040\/making-mistakes-480.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Most of the groups got a lot of their model finished this morning. We used our teamwork, creativity &amp; problem solving skills. On group got on to the moving part:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161608\/moving.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7531\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/2022\/12\/07\/christmas-engineering-challenge-part-1\/moving\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161608\/moving.gif\" data-orig-size=\"500,281\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"moving\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161608\/moving-300x169.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161608\/moving.gif\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7531\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161608\/moving.gif\" alt=\"cardboard reindeer with moving antlers \" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By lunchtime we had made a lot of progress:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161037\/IMG_0626.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7529\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/2022\/12\/07\/christmas-engineering-challenge-part-1\/img_0626\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161037\/IMG_0626.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,675\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0626\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161037\/IMG_0626-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161037\/IMG_0626.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161037\/IMG_0626.jpg\" alt=\"Cardboard reindeer in progress\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161037\/IMG_0626.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161037\/IMG_0626-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161037\/IMG_0626-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More to do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NLC Learning Hub has issued a Christmas Engineering Challenge: The biggies started work this morning. We are making Reindeer from Cardboard and hope to include movement, electrics &amp; coding. It might take a while&#8230; Most of the groups got a lot of their model finished this morning. We used our teamwork, creativity &amp; problem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/2022\/12\/07\/christmas-engineering-challenge-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas Engineering Challenge Part 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[530864,530970],"tags":[530824,669,531037],"class_list":["post-7525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-skills","category-stem","tag-cardboard","tag-christmas","tag-makedo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/bantonbiggies\/uploads\/sites\/30445\/2022\/12\/07161034\/IMG_0611.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7533,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7525\/revisions\/7533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/bantonbiggies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}