MoTEC

Every Thursday at 10:20 am, Rooms 11, 12 and 13 go to MoTEC (Motueka Technology Education Centre). We get to go out to morning tea earlier than everybody else. But do you know what happens once we are off the bus? If not, read on!

We all sit down in a big hall and the MoTEC teachers tell us about what is going to happen. Then we go in our groups to our workrooms.

Sophie (centre) and Selena on the bus.

While the Year 8 students go to the hard materials, the Year 7 students get into groups of about 12 people. Last week, one of the groups made pizza. Another group did some paper work. The third group were bending plastic to make iPod and cellphone stands. My group are in the computer room recording interviews with a partner on Garageband (a computer programme) We get to use microphones of all shapes and sizes. It is very new and exciting.

Students at work in the Computer Suite.

One time, two students (Max and Zak) were working together and their voices went all
high - pitched when they put their Garageband recording on replay! Everybody giggled.

Before we leave, everybody thanks their teacher, and we walk in single file to the bus. We talk about our day at MoTEC on the way back to school, and we all feel very happy and excited about going again next week.

I wonder what will happen next Thursday at MoTEC?

By Georgina