Year 8 at Olympia
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On Friday 16 January, eleven Year 8 students took part in RM's Learning Spaces display at Olympia.

During the day the students worked on ICT projects. They made a stop-frame animation movie using Lego models. They made a film about the exhibition and recorded video interviews with some of the visitors.

Students also had a chance to see some very interesting equipment. Reports were recorded to camera using Chromakey backgrounds. (We also found out how Harry Potter's invisibility cloak worked.) There was a convincing demonstration of 3D projection - we saw a moving display of a heart beating in mid-air, an arm's length in front of us – we could almost touch it - that rotated so we could see how it worked. But most fascinating of all was Microsoft Surface, which resembled a coffee table but was a horizontal computer screen that responded to touch - and the touch of many fingers at once.

One of the adults interviewed said: "The students were brilliant, so confident, so polite, so engaging." But the students simply said that the day was fun.

 
Programming the robot      959
   
Reporting to camera      958
   
Invisibility cloak      960
   
Making an animation      961
   
Sun in the USA - the map isn't really there      962
   
Another budding forecaster      963
   
3-D cinema      964
   
Interviewing visitors in the soundproof pod      966
   
Showing visitors how to use Microsoft Surface      965
   
Exploring London from satellite on Microsoft Surface      967
   
Dunraven School 2010