Hi I am writing to advise that as usual, we are running our VEX Robotics Wellington Club Night on Thursday 5 November 2015 from 4pm at WelTec in Petone.
Please place this in your school notices for interested students, teachers and parents.
Teams or individuals can turn up from 4pm Thursday at WelTec Petone N Block room N 106. WelTec students will usually be working on their robots from around 4pm through to around 7pm.
N Block is between Kensington Ave and Cuba St Petone. There is free parking after 5pm and access from either end of the building.
It doesn't matter if you don't have a robot - feel free to come along and have a look anyway. Our VEX IQ mini robots are available for guests to use on Thursday evenings, and if there are enough keen participants we can also run VEX IQ competitions on Thursday evenings. That's because in addition to our VEX IQ robots we have a VEX IQ competition field and a set of VEX IQ game elements.
We have made good progress on working out ways to put keen students who don't have a full size VEX robot at their school, in touch with robots. If that's of interest to you, email me and I will see what I can do to connect you with a robot.
Exciting News
I thought you might be interested to hear (if you didn't know already) that Amelia Cordwell of Wellington East Girls College who has been one of our WelTec VEX participants for some years, has just won first place in the "Senior Software" section of the national Brightsparks competition!
Congratulations Amelia.
Here's some info about the competition & awards; http://www.brightsparks.org.nz/about-the-awards/
Here's some info about Amelia's winning project; http://www.brightsparks.org.nz/elidmx-software/
Great News for WelTec Engineering Students
Engineering Achieves International Accreditation
Graduates from WelTec’s School of Engineering will now have their qualifications officially recognised globally.
WelTec has been formally recognised by an independent panel convened by the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) – New Zealand’s professional body for engineers –as having qualifications that meet international standards. The NZ Diploma in Engineering and the Bachelor of Engineering Technology degree have been successfully recognised as meeting the requirements of two benchmark international accords. WelTec’s Engineering Degree has been accepted for recognition within the Sydney Accord and the Engineering Diploma within the Dublin Accord.
Achieving this world class status means our engineering degree qualification and our graduates are recognised by nine individual member countries who are party to the Sydney Accord and our diploma is recognised by seven member countries that have joined the Dublin Accord. Graduates will now have their WelTec qualifications recognised around the world which really enhances the mobility of our alumni. These Accords are the gold standard test for technologist and technician engineering qualifications and this recognition is a credit to all WelTec staff involved in their delivery. Congratulations to the School of Engineering.
Thanks
Andrea