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Winners of the Minimal Mouse Competition Again!!

Over several weeks in the Autumn term, Year 9 Technology pupils have been preparing for the annual Minimal Mouse competition. Every lunchtime eight pupils (Stuart Davies, Emily Phelps, Jessica Broom, Amy Powell, Ben Morgan, Naomi Price, Josh Eynon and Joseph Cook) have been building their minimal Mice from scratch in preparation for the competition at Ystrad Mynach College.

On the competition day Mr James, our Technology teacher, took us to the college and we took part in various activities, including building a hovercraft and a water rocket.  We were looking forward to the competition starting and when our Minimal Mice were put to the test they all came in the top 16 which meant that we were through to the final rounds.
In the first round of the final, which was an all Heolddu ‘smack down’ our top mouse won through to the semi finals and faced Lewis School, Pengam.  We won though to reach the final and took the overall winner position.  We were delighted to win this trophy again and keep up Heolddu’s excellent record in this competition.  We would like to thank Mr James for all his time and effort in helping us prepare for the competition.

Stuart Davies.