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By Miss Chapman,Design TechnologyEnrichment LeaderKingsTechEuro Disney – Year 9 Technology TripAfter travelling for almost 11 hours we arrived at theHotel Cheyanne in Euro Disney.Technology Coursework Deadlines:Food Technology:Monday 9 March 2009Product Design:Making – Friday 13February 2009Folder – Monday 23 February 2009Revision materials will also be available athalf term on the Kings Learning Platform –in the Technology Area!Remember the exam is worth 40% of yourTechnology grade.Computing Trip to UWEThat night and the next day we attended threecompulsory sessions given by one of Disney’s residentprofessional facilitators who used the resort to bring tolife the subject of Technology (costume design, cateringand ride design).Afterwards, we spent our time in the resort exploringand enjoying the many attractions and rides, beforeventuring into the village to eat.After another night in the cowboy themed hotel we allprepared for our departure. The coach drivercommented on the good behaviour of our students.Bravo Year 9!And a big thank you to Mrs Pascoe for organising the trip!Technology Events:Arkwright ExaminationCheddar Millennium Trust Competition2012 Royal Mint Design CompetitionSee Ms Chapman for more information…Wanted!The Green Power Team are appealing for any adultvolunteers to help out with the Green Power carengineering challenge.We are currently in the first stages of redesigning the carand need some expert help/advice.If you are interested please contact Miss Chapman at school.We meet on every Wednesday between 4 – 5pm.Don’t forget - Year 11 Technology Coursework Clubsevery lunchtime 1.10 – 1.50pmICT and Computingstudents in Year 11 and 12recently enjoyed a day atthe University of the West England in theComputing, Engineering and Mathematics Faculty.By Miss LewisTrip ReportThe day at UWE was fun and informative. Wearrived a little late due to the M4 being closed. So,when we arrived we had sadly, missed the coffee andintroductions. However, Miss Lewis had phonedahead and a lovely man, who worked for UWE, tookus directly to the Forensic computing course.For Forensic Computing we were set the task ofexamining the computer hard drives of a fictionalstalker, who sent emails to the girl he was stalkingand his partner in crime. We had to work out whothe stalker was. We didn’t realise how much money youcould make in this field! We were also able to talk tocurrent computing students. After this we hadlecture about computing in the university and howthe future will need us!Lunch was one of the highlights of the day – wecould choose from sandwiches, pasta, and nachosand even breakfast! It was in a huge lunch roomwhich made us feel like proper university students.The next course we took part in was HomeNetworking. For this we discovered how to usecommand prompt, which is a command line interfacethat does everything the graphical user interfacedoes, except in code. This was my first timeprogramming and I managedtocommand it to open Google -so I was very pleased! Otherstudents went to the Javaprogramming course and hadfun making a java game whichdrove a car simulation around thescreen. By Maddi Ventour-Page Year 12