Game Kingdom

When I look back through the whole year and see how our class has grown I am just amazed at how much everyone has changed since the beginning of the year.

I think that the one place we all changed is Hornby camp because we were all in the same place for two whole nights and almost three days we all changed because we got to learn more about each other and we had to stay in the same place for most of the week. We changed physically we changed mentally and some of us just stayed the same. We all grew physically because we experienced tough times with the activities and some of us even got sick and puked (naming no names just follow this link) he wasn’t feeling well before but the salad must have just come right back up so we were all up really late and the next day we didn’t want to get out of bed. We all faced some challenges like Hayden flipping over in his kayak, my tent getting ripped, and many other things that I don’t have the attention span to list. So we all faced challenges especially at the climbing tower where no one wanted to go first but once it was there turn they just dominated it and felt great.  We all really liked the food because it tasted so good and after that I think we all wanted to go back to the good food of Hornby.

Everybody has grown this year in more ways than you can count but after everything that we have done in Div.16 I think that everyone had a very memorible year.

Hornby Shoreline By: ecstaticist

“I bet my robot can pick up the tennis ball faster than yours can pick up the juice box” taunted Brenden, “No way my robot can own yours in a race to pick up a juice box” Alex retorted,” I seriously doubt that!” Brenden yelled back, “Then we’ll have a race, five o-clock, right here today,” Alex said back.” Deal, but we can make any modifications we want on the robots.” Brenden said back, and so the battle began…

So the two friends went their ways and immediately started working on their robots. But neither of them thought of any modifications to put on the robots. So they thought, and they thought, and they thought some more and well you get the idea. So at five o-clock they came to the track and began the race to see whose robot is better at picking things up. The track was a bunch of windy curves and the contestants (Alex and Brenden) have to pick up the juice box (or the tennis ball) and take it to the end of the track and whoever completes the race first is the winner.

“On your mark, get set, GO!” The referee shouted. Then BAM both the robots came dashing out to collect their objects. Both the Vexplorer (Alex’s robot) and the Vexbot (Brenden’s robot) quickly “ran” out to get their objects. The Vexbot quickly found its tennis ball and tried to pick it up but it kept rolling away. Meanwhile the Vexplorer had already picked up the juice box but had experimented some technical difficulties because it got stuck in one of the windy curves so both competitors were stuck. Finally the Vexbot picked up the tennis ball with its crane type conveyor belt and was speeding through the course. But wait the Vexplorer has just gotten out of the windy curve it was stuck in and is now catching up to the Vexbot. “It’s gonna be a photo finish” the referee yelled, and just at that moment both the robots finished. “And the winner is… It’s a tie?” The referee sounded confused “What!” Both Brenden and Alex said at the same time. “I guess I was wrong to think that my robot is better” Brenden apologized, “No it’s my fault” Alex said back, “O well at least we’re still friends” Brenden said.

P.S this never actually happened.