Grade 7 and 8 students from Pope John Paul II and Bishop E.Q. Jennings were involved in a Lego robotics and green energy challenge as part of the Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board’s STEM program.
“To be able to give our kids a snippet of what they’re going to see as they go into high school, college and university is huge,” Mackett said. In the green energy challenge, students designed, planned and created a wind turbine. The units had to go through a test of strength and efficiency when faced with forced air to determine the highest voltage.
“It’s been pretty cool because everybody has been doing their own thing,” said Luca Bee, a Grade 8 student at Pope John Paul II.
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