Trip to Genesis and Spark

 Greetings bloggers!

Today all the year 5's and 6's of our school went on a trip to the Emirates and Genesis, including me. At the Emirates Spark Zone first we went to a dark room with screens on the sides which represented the wind. You could put your hand close to the screen which would make it change the winds pattern, it was very surprising. Then we went to the next room and took some pictures which I will show you later on. In front of the place we took the pictures there was a steering wheel and a screen in front of it, it was a boat race! After all of us had a turn we continued to search around the building. 

When we went to the next building, Genesis we had a play with some sphero bolts! They are sphere shaped robots you could control with an ipad, you had to connect the ipad to the robot and then you could drive it! And also you could draw something and the sphero bolt would do the exact same thing. We also have the sphero bolts at our school, I really want to play with them again.

What I learnt was how to drive a sphero bolt which I had never tried before. We had to share with a buddy so we each took 3 minutes, me and my buddy chased each other with the sphero bolt it was really fun and easy to do, we also had a race pretending that the bolts were a boat and we raced on a mat which showed the map of where the America's Cup was gonna happen and the course (things we had to do).

My favourite part was when we played with the sphero bolt specifically when we drew what the robot did. First I drew a star and the robot shaped it out on the ground, also the course was extremely fun when we raced other teams, sometimes we won and sometimes we lost, but it was very amusing.

Here is a photo that my group (group 2) took: