VEX IQ National Competition

 Today we had an early start heading to Telford for the VEX IQ National Competition. We were excited but a little anxious when we saw the size of the hall and number of teams involved. We settled in to our pit and got acquainted with the teams in our division. We felt more confident as the day went on practicing our skills and taking part in many team challenges. We were so happy to get a high score of 91 in one of our drives, our highest challenge score to date. At the end of the first day of competition we are placed in 7th. Well done all you have done all at Howes proud. 

Competition Day Videos

We were in the Lovelace division in the following matches. 

While at the competition we saw a robotic dog which could walk about and pick up his bone! 

VEX IQ mini league finals

 This afternoon we joined other primary schools from Coventry to finalise our mini league. We took part in 6 matches then a final match. We have seen a vast improvement in our skills and enjoyed the chance to compete with our friends. Overall we had teams finish in the top half of the table. We did our best in the final matches and did ourselves and our school proud.

Archery

 Today we went to the Alan Higgs Centre to take part in an archery event, we had a brilliant time and improved all our aiming skills.

Young Voices 2024

 On Friday we joined over 5000 children to form a large choir and preform the songs we have been practicing at school. We had a brilliant time.

Rowing team challenge

 This week we went to a rowing event, each student had a minute and a half to row as far as they could, then we did a team row to see how far collectively we could go in 4 minutes switching rower each 50 seconds or so, this was quite challenging. When we added our distances together we had rowed 1617 meters. Fantastic effort.

VEX IQ Competition Finham Park 2

 Today we represented our school at the VEX IQ competition at Finham Park 2, we have worked really hard to improve our driving skills and this could be seen in all our teams. We have worked hard to improve our robots since the last competition and are proud of our achievements, all robots can now pick up cubes! We finished today with team B in 5th in the skills completion, our best finish so far.