Rongomai School Visit

Today some of us went to Rongomai school for a quick visit. When we arrived there was a lady who introduced us and gave us visitor badges. We met the class teacher who introduced us to the class. Then he showed us some of his robots. There was a submarine robot which was remote controlled and it could go up, down, left, right in a water trough. They bought it but it was not assembled so they had to assemble it.

We tried assembling a submarine. It was pretty hard as unfortunately some of the pieces were lost. At the end we took a short interview of some of the learners. We had a sheet of questions which we asked. We filled it with the answers they gave. For example, how well do you know STEM? STEM stands for Science Technology Engineering and Maths. They said that they do their English and Maths through the Science.

There was a real bee-hive which they had made in their classroom. There was a hive inside a box next to the window. The students had made a hole in the window and there was a see through tube connecting to the hive so you could see the bees coming in and out. The honey was being collected from the box and they sold their own honey. I thought it was a pretty good idea.

They had a lot of pets such as this weird walking fish which was blind. They also had a few cacti and miniature Aloe Vera plant. After that they showed us their garden. We had a fun time and went back to our school.