Royal Adelaide Show brought us a wonderful opportunity
to show people what students are capable of doing with our
unique innovative "ezSystem".
We were involved in various activities such as exhibiting
students' projects, holding competitions
for various age groups, and running
workshops for primary school students in our stall.
Our stall gained attention of lots of people, including
Tim Noonan, the channel 7 weather presenter, that he came
back with his crew and took a live show with Marshall's
robots.
The video above depicts what happened during the show in a
nutshell.
We had the honor of having two pre-eminent STEME®
personalities, Dr Jerry Madakbas and Dr YKK, as the Judges
for the 2011 RAS ezSystem STEME® Innovation competitions.
STEME® stands for Science Technology Engineering
Mathematics Enterprise
Dr Jerry Madakbas
Dr Yew Kam Keong (YKK)
Chairman of Photek
Pty Ltd. Supplier of advanced imaging sensors (cameras) to
NASA Hubble Space Telescope, NASA ACE Explorer Satellite,
Cancer Research
Distinguished
Talent on Creativity recognized by the Australian Government
This competition enabled participants to demonstrate their
STEME® innovation and creativity. Competitors were required to
develop a commercially viable invention which performs tasks by
programming microcontrollers using the simple and easy to use
ezSystem software. The main categories were "Entertainment and
Recreation", "Environment Issues", "Agricultural Application".
The objective of this contest was to design and build an
incubator for exotic eggs. The incubator requires temperature
and movement control. The eggs must roll twice a day to stop
the embryo from sticking to the shell. Students used their
own creativity to complete the project. This project required
the students to apply their science, technology, engineering,
mathematics and entrepreneurial skills in a practical manner.
The Line Following eRacer robots were provided by eLabtronics
and the competitors programmed the robots with ezSystem. The
competitors include students from AMTC, Southern Montessori PS
etc. The competition was judged based on the time it took for
the robots to complete the track.
The Remote Control Soccer Robot is controlled via a computer
using ezSystem. The wireless robot is controlled via Infrared.
Winners
Main Prize: The winner of the Main prize was
Marshall Tearle. Marshall won a prize to compete in the
2012 Robotics competition in Malaysia.
Categorized Competition Winners: Many of the
competitors competitors received awards for their innovative
projects. You can download the list of winners here. pdf
eLabtronics hosted ezSystem workshops for Primary School
students at the 2011 Royal Adelaide Show. The aim was to promote
STEME® in schools. Greenwith Primary School year 7 students
designed, built and programmed their award winning Smart City
after 10 double lessons (90 minutes) of eLabtronics workshops.
Southern Montessori Primary School students also had fun building
and programming Traffic Light, Home Alarm, Smart Street Light
projects at the Royal Show.
Mr. Miroslav Kostecki, the Technical Manager of eLabtronics, was
interviewed by ABC Regional Radio about the Royal Show eLabtronics
STEME® competition. Miro explained how Greenwith Primary School
students used ezSystem to advanced from Globes and Batteries to
build a Smart City, Kavia?s Plant Texter which sends an SMS when
the plant gets too dry, Zihan?s Donation Box to raise money to
help the poor students in Bangladesh to learn STEME®, Egg
incubators and animatronic robots.
Listen to their interview to find out more.
