Dear Bloggers,

Last Saturday all students from Years 5 and 6 were invited to compete in the Sydney Regional Robodance  Competition at St Pius X College, Chatswood.  43 students and 15 teams from Gordon East Public School embarked upon the challenge of designing, programming and making robots that danced or performed to music. Below is what the judges were looking for.

Drum roll………..It is with great pleasure that I announce the following 4 teams performed very well and will be representing Gordon East Public School in the NSW State Robocup Competition.

‘Simply Ammmazing’ with Alice, Meaghan and Mandana received third place prize overall and were the highest GEPS performing team. Well done girls.

Here are some pictures of the girls and their  Bots in action.

2nd highest Gordon East Public School performing team was the….The Disco Dancers….. with Grace and Risa.

Three lovely sequined ladies perched on the robots and carried out beautiful synchronised dancing keeping in  time with the music.

Here are the Disco Dancers with their support crew back at school.

3rd Place from Gordon East Public School was ‘Crazy Blue’ with Genevieve, Eilidh and Annalisa. A lovely lady in feathers paraded on the robot and a clever robotic hand clapped her.

Here is a pic of the team back at school with their support crew.

There were three highly commended teams and Ms Simmonds and Mrs Garlick had the difficult task of choosing which one would progress to the State Competition. See for yourself how difficult our job was.

Jawz was a scary shark robot with menacing jaws that snapped open and closed.  The music was from the Jaws music and Alex and Helena did a fabulous job.

‘Salute’ with Teisha and Carolyn was very impressive as the robots saluted and danced around. The ‘Nano Bots’ with Olivia and Claudia saw the girls dancing with their robots as their pirate ship robots navigated the seas of the dance floor. Tremendous job girls.

Drum roll………………And the fourth team to represent GEPS at the State titles is………NANO BOTS.

Now let’s have a close look at all our wonderful GEPS competitors  as everyone did a great job and hopefully had lots of fun.

Mr Scruff was Aidan’s bot and he was helped on the day by Ben.  Mr Scruff had some snappy moves and performed well.

The Hungry Hunters with Josie and Chloe (unfortunately Charlotte was unwell) were very creative and looked terrific as they sought food on the dance floor. Watch out for the guy with the spear!!!

‘Dance Corp’ with Nick, Jack B and Darcy had a hovering robot that moved in an innovative way…wow

‘Keep Up’ with Dom and Jack had some very smooth moves with their  bots cleverly gyrating front arm.

‘The Hair Razors’ with Rachel, Tilly, Lucy and Elyssa had bots with clever rotating crosses…These looked great on the dance floor when the robots remained stationary and the blades spun.

‘Racetrack Rumble’ with Ben, Mitchell, Cheyanne and Nikka were a very resilient and hard working team.  In round 1 their racetrack came apart.  Not deterred they industriously fixed their props and had a great round 2 as their robot went around the track. Nika composed the music himself in ‘Garage Band’.  He is a boy of many talents.

‘Mario Mechanics’ with So Young, Julian, Brayden, Alex and Serina had fabulous props with a racing track and spectators in a stand.  Well done Julian for your impressive effort creating these.  In round 2 the Bot did an impressive figure of 8 moves around the track.

Here is the team back at school getting ready for the event.

Charlie, Evan and Sebastian were ‘Smashing Sailors’ as their beautifully made boats floated synchronistically down the dance floor.  They even had an origami folded dragon head on the bow of one of the boats.  Fabulous work boys.

‘Day and Night’ with Jeslyn and Amulya looked terrific

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‘Flying Piranhas’ with Leo and James had great under the sea props and the robots were very clever as they designed and built a crab and a sting ray. Ben was a fantastic helper on the day.

Here are some pictures of the smiles because we all know children learn best when they are happy.

Three GEPS teams were not able to compete on the day because of sporting and other commitments.  Here is a quick look at two of the fantastic bots that did not perform at St PiusX. Especially well done to Kaito who was the main designer and builder.

Robocup also includes two other competitions: Roborescue and Robosoccer.  All three events run at one time and here are some pictures.

Roborescue

Robosoccer

Wow that was a long post but it really was a fantastic day full of so much fun and learning!  Thanks for calling by.

Kind regards

Mrs Garlick