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eTrain 2008
Photos from the 2008 eTrain extravaganza at Collingwood Children's Farm. I mentored a group of 10 boys working on the Climate Connections robotics missions
eTrain is a Melbourne Grammar School initiative that brings students and teachers from Melbourne Grammar and surrounding schools together for two days of immersion into ICT based activities
The boys pictured attempted several of the challenges and created some excellent engineering attachments to complement their programming
The robot has just left base carrying the Polar Bear 
This robot is lined up in base and is about to move forward to scoop the Carbon into the carbon dump. The strange looking red object is a symbolic storm 
At left: Close-up of the carbon attachment with bear attachment 
A clever solution to getting all the levees ( the brown beams) to the flood location at once 
Above :The boys contemplate the missions
Scissor action "claw" attachment used to pick-up the Ice Buoy it the most forward, with a carbon seeking bay
Following- illustrates another way of mounting the NXT and additional 3rd motor with a claw
mt. Page revised 12/8/2010