Swimming or Not???

Want to check the water quality of our rivers and beaches for going swimming. Check them out on this web site. www.lawa.org.nz/explore-data/swimming

            

Heathcote River in flood. Not a good time for a swim!!!!

Order of Presentations

Hugh & Jonah
Ida & Jacob
Tristan
Cruz, Ben, Payo, Jack & Sol
Layce
Sophie & Sofia
Sam & Noah
Ashley
Nerhys
Alice
Rowan
Amy W
Amy S & Maya
Abby, Sam & Oliver

How Will We Impress Our Mentors?

Today we talked about our pitches, how we will 'sell' our product or service to the mentors in the hope that they will choose ours.

Sam, Abby and Oliver have already made an ad for their scooter mudguard.

How will we make our pitch more memorable? These are all great skills that are being developed by our super students.

In Week 8 we will practise our pitches before presenting them for real to our mentors in Week 9.

Today...
Hugh and Jonah have finalised their design and begun a Prezi.
Nerhys has finalised her logo.
Ida has emailed St Martins New World and begun a slideshow.
Amy W has designed a logo and begun a slideshow.
Noah and Lace have designed a logo and begun a slideshow.
Tristan has finished his slideshow.
Payo and co. have nearly finished their slideshow and are thinking about how to make a prototype.
Sam has designed his logo and has described his Break Bars.
Maya and Amy have finalised their logo and written a script for their ad.
Sophie and Sofia have added slides into their slideshow, they also called Fava and found that their takeaway cups only cost 20c each!!
Ashley has emailed Ideal Cups and has worked on her slideshow.
Alice has already made a prototype of her worm farm, has started her slideshow, obtained costings and is thinking about how to make an advertisement at home.
Abby, Sam and Oliver have worked on prototypes made out of aluminium, and improved their slideshow and logo.

We are working hard!!

Top Ten Tech Inventions of 2017

Check out these sales pitches.

Business Planning with Ben Reid

This morning we had our final mentor - Ben Reid - come along and teach us. We talked about the difficulties that Start Ups may face. We looked at a Lean business plan and also learned how to create and use spreadsheets.

Steve Blank is a Start Up guru, here is the link to his Start Up tools.

Have a play with some of these at home if you have time.

Remember that the next two weeks are taken up with swimming. Please think about your "sell" to our mentors. Keep focussed on the problem that you are trying to solve. What are your costs and materials that you have thought of?

Keep your momentum rolling team, you were awesome today!

Sally at the Mother of All Clean ups along the river banks

Well done Sally and her family for helping to clean up along the river banks today. Sally, the eco-warrior, sent in these pictures. If you also helped send me photos so I can post them too.
The top photo was of an interesting basket fungus that Sally found.

Everyone doing the clean up

Sally's family helping to pick up rubbish.

Testing, testing, testing

Abby, Sam and Oliver have been tasked with the job of designing a mudguard for a scooter. A mum from St Martins who works at the hospital has to park a long way from her work. She then scoots the rest of the way. On wet days her legs and clothing get wet from squirting up from the back wheel.

Today this group have been having way too much fun testing out the angles and attachments of possible guards.