Year Eight Technology Visits Junior School

In Year 8 Technology, students use design thinking to design and make prototypes of arcade games from cardboard and pocket-sized computers called micro:bits. An important phase of the design process is the 'empathise phase' during which the designer researches existing solutions and asks questions of experts and their clients to refine ideas for their design. 

The students of 8V Technology recently visited two Junior School classes, 3D and 6M, to survey the students to find out their preferred types of arcade games and the kinds of features that they like best in arcade games. 

Each Year 8 group of 2 or 3 interviewed 10 or more Junior School students. The Year 8 students took their survey data back to class, analysed it and presented it as graphs and key points. It was clear from their Design Pitch Presentations that the Junior School students had provided invaluable information that had guided the Year 8s in their choice of which arcade game design to develop further. 

The students of 8V would like to thank Ms Moss and Mrs Bath and the students from 3D and 6M for their assistance with their surveys and hope to return to the Junior School with their completed arcade game prototypes for them to play later in the semester.