Tech Term 3

IT is not back to school with it being level 2 in Auckland, and now we have tech again, but this time we swapped groups. The group I am in now is hard materials. The thing we do in this tech class is something called Pewter Casting.

How it works is. We get a picture of something we like and get a silhouette stock image of it from google, then after that we put it on our workbook (if you have a chromebook) then when we have 12 (4 for different people).

Volleyball Tornament 🏐

Last wednesday. Some of the year 7 and eight went to represent our school in a volleyball tournament.

The first school we versed was panmure district. When the game was over the score  was 10-14 with us getting the win for the first round. 

the second round was against Panmure Bridge, we didn't know how much was the points but we won, 

the third round we lost to glen brae  :(

but the forth round we versed tamaki Primary the score by the end of that game was 12-26 

The next game it was Our school (Ruapotaka) vs Glen Innes. We lost by 4 points :(

But then for our final game we versed Point England and we one by 3 points.

At the end of the volleyball tournament we got 4 wins and 2 loses. 🏐 

Tech blog- Making a light bulb circuit

Equipment. Battery, Bulb circuit and wires

Method: First I put one wire in the positive side of the battery then put the other wire in the the negative side of the battery, then I got the bulb circuit then I connected the wire to the positive side and connected the other wire to the negative side of the outlet.


The outcome: It lighted up making a tiny light source.

Tech Blog- Light bulb switch

For this week of tech, our class learnt about light bulbs. We first turned on our light bulb by connecting the wires to the positive and negative side of the battery. After that we got a switch we had to connect to the light bulb circuit so we can control when it turns on or off.

When we finished connecting the switch to  light bulb we also got given a voltmeter to show the amount of volts we used while we had the light on. My light bulb only had 5 volts when it was on.  Following on with the light bulbs we then learned about the 3 types of light bulbs(compact fluorescent  light,  incandescent light and a LED light) we then got taught which of these 3 bulbs were the most useful.

24 hour digitial Footprint

For cybersmart we had to show our 24 hour digital Footprint. This is my 24 hour Digital Footprint

Auckland Airport Runway Gets Shorter

RIght now Auckland's runway is getting shortened by a kilometer  but is still in use. On Sunday night The workers started to get to work on the runway trying to fix the the panels in the touchdown area which were damaged before.


Before repairing the runway they got a lot of criticism because of that for the last 12 months. They need 280 slabs of concrete to fix the runway. They planned it later on in the year but the drop in air traffic because of lock down made them start early.

2nd Week Of Tech

On the 2nd week back at tech we were taught about the different types of plastic. We learnt the different types of plastic that are Reusable plastic and One use of plastic.

We were also learnt that having Biodegradable plastic is actually pretty good to use. There is also so many different types of plastic out there. One of them being  high density polyethylene, which is just milk containers and any other type of bottle.  This type of plastic is called HDPE.