GEG Student summit

Last week on Wednesday the Year 8 and 7 extension group went to Hobsonville school for the Google educator group student summit (or GEG for short) where we had to present something to the other students that came. There were lots of other students presenting they all had there own stations. We traveled a long way to get there.

Hobsonville school is a really flash looking school and is really big. First we went inside and there was a woman who told us to follow the boys outside where we got goody bags with name tags, note books, pens and a small bag of chips. We got to decorate our name tags with stickers and markers after that we went into the Mobile Learning center which was full of technology stuff like computers and Ipads that you can draw on with a pen.

The first presentation we went to was the play dough and makey makey were we all had wires, a Computer and play dough each where we had to go on Scratch were you can make stuff like video game.Next we had to make sounds on scratch and then we got to make something with play dough  and I made a snowman named Willy then we got the wires and the makey makey and connected the wires to the makey makey which was connected to the computer and when we connected the wire to Willy the snowman it made the sound we made on Scratch play. It had to be my favorite presentation I had lots of fun.




Morning tea was next and after that we went  to a presentation about what are some of the google apps. They told us to write what was those google apps for. While we did that the other group was presenting what was P.E.N.N which stands for Point England News Network. We had lunch after that and we got to play tag on the on park it was really fun and when it was time to go inside it was our turn to present. our presentation was about how to use google apps like google docs and google slides. It was really nerve wreaking but I did it. 


The last thing we did was see a presentation about How to use Blend space. Which is  a site where you can create digital lessons. They also made presentations about all sorts of subjects that they made on blend space. Over all I had I great time at Hobsonville school it so cool I learnt some very interesting stuff and when after everything we did on that day we went into the gym where we had to put our name tags in the bags and take a seat. They started to do a raffle and there was lots of prizes to win and as peoples names were being called out for prizes name was called out and I got a 20 dollar voucher for Dextech! I so was excited and I just loved every moment that I spent at the summit. I hope I get to go again.