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**What kinds of projects are eligible?**

 * Your project can be big or small, involving all of us as one big group or several smaller groups working on different projects.
 * Your project should have a positive impact on the school or local community.
 * Projects must demonstrate good technological practice – finding a problem, exploring ideas, testing and evaluating them and communicating in a clear and interesting way

You can see examples of projects on the Neighbourhood Engineers website: [|2011 winning projects]

How long does the project take?
You have Term 2 and Term 3 to complete this. You may find this project has cross links with your Y8 Exhibition in Term 3 which will be using the Central Idea of "How the World Works" or you may wish to get most of this project completed in Term 2 before you start the exhibition.

The dates planned are all afternoons of day 6s (1.30 - 3pm)
 * Thurs 26 April
 * Fri 4 May
 * Mon 14 May
 * Tues 22 May
 * Wed 30 May
 * Fri 8 Jun
 * Mon 18 Jun

What happens if I can't make a session?
You need to be committed to the project to take part, so if you know now that you can't make any sessions consider giving your place to someone else as there were many students that couldn't be asked because of numbers. If you are ill please email me and let me know you can't be there: **ebatley@tnis.school.nz**

Why was I picked for the team?
You were picked for a number of reasons; your commitment to Technology; your creativity; your ability tackling applied mathematical tasks; your presentation skills; your maturity and your ability to communicate confidently with adults. And then lastly it was whether I thought you could use it to extend yourself in maths, science, team work, time management, presentation and problems solving skills....? Even if you don't want to be an engineer, those are pretty good skills to have under your belt!!!