EPRO8 Comp

Thursday, 24th July 2025 at 2:20pm

EPRO8 Challenge, a science and engineering competition:

Five teams of fast, tactical thinkers from GBHS took part in this year's EPRO8 competition, held at KBHS over a two-day event.

Participants practice and extend their STEM skills in an engaging competition against other schools to engineer solutions to challenges, using giant meccano-style equipment.

This year's challenges included building a body-mounted laser gun device to shoot a mobile target, making a remote-controlled shopping cart, or creating an autonomous barrier arm.

GBHS's Junior teams had an intense few hours in a very close competition. One of the teams was rewarded with a spot in the semifinals. Senior teams finished strongly, unfortunately missing out on qualifying for the semi-final round.

This was a fantastic event and everyone is keen to come back next year.

Junior Teams (x3): ⚙ (Year 9) Rosie Klimetz, Emily Zuo, Kavi Rohit, Fran Ishida ⚙ (Year 9) Danny Wileman, Koko Riddering, Yannes Zou, Avia Patel ⚙ (Year 10) Jibriil Omar, Cooper John, Thomas King, Liam Kilpatrick

Senior teams (x2): ⚙ (Year 12) Phoebe Brown, Rowan Farrington, Ezra Mould, Leon Bird ⚙ (Year 12) Louis Kilpatrick, Deacon Roberts, Aaron Bennett, Joe Irvin