{"id":2600,"date":"2019-07-01T15:55:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T14:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2019-07-15T13:54:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T12:54:58","slug":"blox-bots-undergo-design-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/blox-bots-undergo-design-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Blox Bots Undergo Design Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blox1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blox1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blox1-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>The new and improved Year 7 Blox Bots<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Students from Year 7 have enjoyed being the first group to use the laser cutting machine to finish off their Blox Bot design technology projects this term.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until now, pupils have painted their lovingly-made wooden characters, but this year they\u2019ve been able to enhance their designs with some extra features.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The additional processes have involved designing plastic accessories on the computer, then laser cutting them to size before fixing them to the wood.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DT teacher, Mr Davenport, comments: \u201cWe&#8217;ve all loved doing this project with the new plastic parts and the results speak for themselves. Every time I look at the Blox Bots, I can\u2019t help smiling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"346\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blox2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2602\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=2602\" class=\"wp-image-2602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blox2.jpg 346w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blox2-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"346\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blox4.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2603\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=2603\" class=\"wp-image-2603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blox4.jpg 346w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blox4-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"346\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blox3-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2610\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=2610\" class=\"wp-image-2610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blox3-2.jpg 346w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blox3-2-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"346\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blox5-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2611\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=2611\" class=\"wp-image-2611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blox5-2.jpg 346w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blox5-2-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students from Year 7 have enjoyed being the first group to use the laser cutting machine to finish off their Blox Bot design technology projects this term. Until now, pupils have painted their lovingly-made wooden characters, but this year they\u2019ve been able to enhance their designs with some extra features. The additional processes have involved &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/blox-bots-undergo-design-transformation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blox Bots Undergo Design Transformation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2,29,30],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curriculum","tag-bridgnorth-endowed-school","tag-design-technology","tag-year-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}