LGS Design Tech

Design Technology Dept. @ Lewis Girls' School

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Digital 3D CAD visuals becoming 3D models today in year 10, taking their sketch work to CAD to final makes. @lewisgirlssch @CaerphillyCBC @WG_Education @EAS_STEM @EAS_Digital

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Year 7 achievement assembly with all the girls achieving their Industrial Cadets Award with @bakerhughesco as well as their first @CRESTAwards, and all of their subject and AoLE awards. Just my form in the photos though! @lewisgirlssch @WG_Education @CaerphillyCBC @EAS_STEM

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Great to welcome our year 6 for their transition yesterday with some hands on DT. Made even better hearing about how much they had enjoyed their DT project in school on Memphis we created for them as a cluster. @lewisgirlssch @EAS_STEM @CaerphillyCBC @WG_Education

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A huge thank you to everyone @bakerhughesco for our Girls get set Industrial Cadets Award ceremony today. We had a great time completing STEM challenges and having a site tour! @lewisgirlssch @CaerphillyCBC @WG_Education @EAS_STEM

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The winners are……. Well done to everyone, some fantastic team work and problem solving in DT today! @CaerphillyCBC @WG_Education @EAS_STEM @Greenhill10 @Mae5ySchool @DerwendegSchool @HengoedPrimary @LlancaeachJr

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Some awesome racing going on!!! @CaerphillyCBC @WG_Education @EAS_STEM @Greenhill10 @Mae5ySchool @DerwendegSchool @HengoedPrimary @LlancaeachJr @lewisgirlssch

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The girls are getting closer to a finished race car ready to race after lunch! Meanwhile Ellie in year 10 is showing off the First Tech challenge robot inspiring some last minute design iterations! @lewisgirlssch @CaerphillyCBC @WG_Education @EAS_STEM

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Making begins, not only are the girls working as teams to compete against each other today but they also have to think about tomorrows 6 school times as well! @CaerphillyCBC @WG_Education @EAS_STEM @Greenhill10 @Mae5ySchool @DerwendegSchool @HengoedPrimary @LlancaeachJr

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Year 5 pupils enjoying a DT transition day @lewisgirlssch. Design and developing their race cars at this stage. @CaerphillyCBC @WG_Education @EAS_STEM @Greenhill10 @Mae5ySchool @DerwendegSchool @HengoedPrimary @LlancaeachJr

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We had a fantastic time last week at the national finals of the First Tech Challenge. The 40 best teams from the UK competed and although the girls didn’t come away a prise they were the highest placed Welsh team! @lewisgirlssch @CaerphillyCBC @WG_Education @lewisgirlssch

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Year 10 ,reuse housing’ coming along nicely, practical pieces staring to come together to math the 2D and 3D CAD work taking inspiration from Brutalism and Frank Lloyd Wright. @lewisgirlssch @EAS_STEM @WG_Education @CaerphillyCBC

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Another one of our skills projects all finished, year 7 ,Fixtures Skills Bot, uses lots of different fixtures, 3 types of wood and has the skills to skateboard! @WG_Education @EAS_STEM @CaerphillyCBC @lewisgirlssch

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The first of one our new skills projects completed today. Reduce and reuse: use off cuts of MDF and repurpose an old can to make a “Canimal” light. @Kitronik @lewisgirlssch @CaerphillyCBC @WG_Education @EAS_STEM

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Year 7 pupils taking part in the final session with @bakerhughesco were the girls are taking part in a live session with 3 women that work in the “green energy” sector. Learning about what they do in their jobs and how they got there. @lewisgirlssch @CaerphillyCBC @WG_Education

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Year 9 STEM busy building their prototype water rockets as part of their Bronze Crest Award. @EAS_STEM @WG_Education @CaerphillyCBC @lewisgirlssch

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Some of our fantastic year 9 CAD CAM photo frame projects now being completed. A range of DCF and CAD skills including drawing to size, layering, nesting of parts, image tracing and manipulation, great work girls! @lewisgirlssch @EAS_STEM @CaerphillyCBC @WG_Education @EAS_Digital

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Some happy year 8 pupils showing off their retro game sprite key rings. The game sprite CAD drawings will also be used next half term in Digital Design when they programme them into a game! @lewisgirlssch @EAS_STEM @EAS_Digital @WG_Education @CaerphillyCBC

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After a very long day in Birmingham the girls came away with the “Motivate award” and a place in the UK national finals being held at Cambridge! An amazing day with lots of learning as well as fun at the First Tech Challenge! @lewisgirlssch @WG_Education @CaerphillyCBC @EAS_STEM

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First Tech Challenge, Aston University
Robot has passed all the checking and scrutineering. Next stage is the battles.

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Don’t even ask!!!!! @FTC_UK @lewisgirlssch @WG_Education @CaerphillyCBC @EAS_STEM #MoreThanRobotsUK #FTCUKteams