K-Nex Workshop!

This week is Science week and to celebrate it we had a workshop from NUIG on K-nex. Maura came in to show us all about how K-Nex works. We used our engineering brains to create different things such as hammers, spammers and cars with motors. We had great fun working in pairs to build the different objects!!









































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