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Year 8 Video Conferencing – Operation Montserrat
By Harriet Timmons
 On Monday the 17th of November a lucky group of year 8 students got together for a fun video conference activity with the National Space Centre. The students really enjoyed the day and were able to gain experience in Maths, ICT, Enterprise and Geography in one cross curricular activity.
The students were going to have to save the people on the island of Montserrat from a deadly volcano eruption and an approaching hurricane. To complete the mission students were put into five groups:
1. Communication Team
2. Evacuation Team
3. Volcano Team
4. Satellite Team
5. Hurricane Team
The Communication team had to organise what was going on and communicate with the people at the space centre.
The Evacuation group had to get as many people evacuated as possible with the facilities given. The Volcano group had to monitor when the volcano was going to erupt, checking the amount of rock fall. The Satellite group had to check that the satellite was monitoring the island. Finally the hurricane group had to monitor the hurricane heading towards the island.
The students worked very well in the individual groups and as a collective team as they were under pressure to get all the information needed.
The students successfully worked together as a team and managed to save 8000 people’s lives!
Pictures of the day are available here
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