S.T.E.M Week, Waikowhai Student Led Toolkits.

 Talofa lava bloggers, Today I will talk to you about our Toolkit's at our School. If your in an Ako Hiko School. You would know we had a Toolkit a few weeks ago. So Mr Riceman (The Tech Teacher kind of) and my Teacher Miss Daly decided to have our own Toolkit at our school. We did it because it was S.T.E.M week. If you don't know what S.T.E.M stands for, it stands for Science,Technology,Engineering and Maths. This time it was with everyone including the Middle school. This was on the date 11/06/21 Or June the 11th 2021 on a Friday. The presenters were the people who went to Toolkits. Which was a total of 24 people. We were sticking with the apps we chose the 1st time. They chose their Toolkits by going through a google form that gave you 3 choices per Toolkit. There were 3 different Toolkits, the presenters got to go to 1 Toolkit each. But the presenter's got put into a random Toolkit. I was presenting google slide animations (which was the best one obviously) with my friend Brayden. 

The 1st Toolkit we were presenting, this was gonna go on until our morning tea. We had 18 people attending to our Toolkit. We had a Slideshow explaining what to do, and we showed it with everyone. I had butterflies in my stomach. So me and Brayden started to explain what to do. Then they had to make their own animation. We put on a 15 timer bomb and they started animating. We told them to make a google slideshow. A lot of them needed help. We showed them what to do and over time, they started to become more independent. When the timer stopped, we asked if anyone wanted to share what they have done so far. Most of them did... Except 1. Some of the animations made us laugh and some were very good. My favourite 1 was when a car crashed into a house and the house flew. All credit goes to Anthony for creating that animation. Even me and Brayden got to show another animation we created in the Weekend. My one was about Among us and Brayden's was about Henry Stickman. Paige got to show 2 of her animations she made. They both looked really cool! When the morning tea bell was about to ring. The people from the other Toolkit came in and looked at some of our awesome animations. Ms Sands was in here and took somephotos of us helping people. Here is our slideshow on how to animate. 

For our 2nd Toolkit we were presenting once again. This time we only had 11 people attending. This time I was more confident because I had done this before with more people. We showed them what to do and showed them our examples. It was mostly people from the Middle school so we were everyone where. But then I was helping everyone until I started to focus on helping this 1 girl because she really didn't know what she was doing. Brayden was going around helping others, The bomb exploded but we decided to add extra time because these people were a bit more confused then the people from our last Toolkit. We gave them a extra 9 minutes and when it exploded once more. People started sharing their animations, I had 2 favourite animations in this Toolkit. One was when a Basketball didn't go in the hoop but then it bounced on the ground and then it landed. The other was when this guy was running away from a car and then bombs flew from the sky and killed the person. But it suddenly ended when a bell rang. 

My 3rd Toolkit was finally not presenting. I was put into Spheros. Cole and Caleb were presenting that Toolkit. They introduced themselves and then gave us examples on how to control Spheros. Then they told us to go on an app called Sphero Edu and click on sign in. Luckily we were already signed in. Then click on connect robot. Then if you have a Sphero, you would see a bunch of random letters and numbers show up and click on 1 of them. Then your one should light up a little time after. We could control our Spheros with WASD or use your mouse to drag it. Since I am a Master (Or so I think I am) at typing so I chose WASD. It worked and it was very cool because I had only done this once but with an Ipad instead. We could do courses or go outside and control your Sphero. I had a buddy and while I was controlling the Sphero. He would run after it and pick it up. I didn't decide to go to do the courses because they looked way too hard. There was this one group who tried to make it up a ramp with their Sphero. In the end they succeeded but it fell (oof).

At the start I was really anxious and scared. While time progressed through the 1st Toolkit, I began to get more confident. During the 2nd Toolkit it was a piece of cake to me because everything wasn't chaos and there were less people which made it better. That's why I liked the 1st Toolkit better because I like action. The last Toolkit was meh because I wasn't presenting which was pretty boring. 

Anyway thank you for reading my blog post. If you want you can comment on what you thought about our Toolkit and if you would want to do one if you could. Anyway have an Awesome day or night and blog ya later!