The European Chain Reaction 2020: 1 - Belgium

Monday 6 January 2020

1 - Belgium - Technical Chain Reaction

Hi to all you scientists and fans,

Qworzó - Belgium proudly presents its technical chain reaction 2020!

Some weeks ago 36 brilliant engineers mastered to create this Rube Goldberg Machine.

We hope you may enjoy watching our chain as much as we did while building it!

We look forward to watching all your chains appear to the blog! We want to wish you the best of luck with the voting in a couple of weeks and we look forward to reading your comments!

Please share our video wherever you want!

Kind regards,

The children in year 6 at Qworzó, Merksplas, Belgium

10 comments:

Jan Erik8 January 2020 at 23:29
Impressive chain! A lot of new ways to keep the chain going makes it fun to watch! Great work! :)
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Steffen9 January 2020 at 01:56
Great ideas! You are true technicians (if not even magicians :-).
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Sari Auramo9 January 2020 at 06:26
What a cool chain you've created! Good work!
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Matiz f13 January 2020 at 09:40
great job
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tristan14 January 2020 at 10:38
this is the best chain reaction.
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Charlotte L6A Qworzo15 January 2020 at 05:27
Great job
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kyara from belguim15 January 2020 at 07:49
it's a fantastic chain reaction!!!
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Pauline15 January 2020 at 08:23
I really liked the chain reaction! It was quite interesting if you ask me!! :)
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Hannes20 January 2020 at 06:58
Very well done and you chain reaction worked out really good!
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ernahafnes22 January 2020 at 03:11
Very good video and we liked the dramatic song playing along the chain. Nice job :-)
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Project History

The European Chain Reaction 2019

The European Chain Reaction 2018

The European Chain Reaction 2017

The European Chain Reaction 2016

The European Chain Reaction 2015

The European Chain Reaction 2014

The European Chain Reaction 2013

The European Chain Reaction 2012

The European Chain Reaction 2011

The European Chain reaction is a European Quality Label winning eTwinning project that was first organised in 2011.

The project is a contest and a European collaboration between primary schools from as many as possible European countries.

In the contest primary schools compete for the honour and a nice trophy: Which country builds and films the most astonishing and creative Rube Goldberg / Robert Storm Petersen chain reaction? The competing children are the only judges in this game!

In the end all videos will be edited to ONE BIG CROSS BORDER EUROPEAN CHAIN REACTION! (European Chain Reaction 2011 video)

In 2011 Germany was the outstanding winner of this fun science competition. They made this absolutely amazing video and they learned a lot about pulleys, chains, levers, ...

In 2012 Belgium managed to win the competition by creating this chain reaction!

In 2013 Norway was crowned the ECR-2013 winner as they made this feel-good and up tempo chain reaction!

In 2014 Belgium won the competition for the second time. The pupils created this chain reaction.

In 2015 Kindergarten Rasselband from Germany won the title with this amazing machine to feed the sheep.

In 2016 Belgium won its third title with this chain reaction.

In 2017 Belgium won its 4th title this outstanding chain reaction.

In 2018 Belgium won its 5th title with this sophisticated water pump.

In 2019 Austria won with this amazing chain reaction.

And now in 2020 the project is organised for the tenth year!!

We would like to find some extra schools to participate, so if your country isn't mentioned on this blog and your primary or kindergarten school wants to join this amazing science competition? Please contact dave@qworzo.be or find us at the eTwinningforum!

To all joining us: have a "sciencerrific experience" and let's all hope the best young Einsteins may win!

Austria

Our Jenaplan –School –Wildbach is an elementary school situated in the south of Graz in Styria. Our children are in the age of 6-10 years.

It´s a small school (7 classes) in a rural environment.

For about 10 years the profile of our school is working at the main principles of the "Jenaplan".

The Jenaplan school-concept was developed by Peter Petersen (1884-1952) at the demonstration school (for pre-service teacher education) of the University of Jena, Germany.

This curriculum includes "World orientation", a rythmic weekplan, Discussion, Study and Playing .http://www.jenaplan.nl/nl/rythmic_weekplan.htm(Link in English)

Our school website:www.vs-wildbach.com

If you want to take a look at our homeland -www.deutschlandsberg.atandwww.schilcherheimat.at

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Elementary School "Žepče" in Žepču was established back in 1880.

Teaching in Primary School "Žepče" is performed by two curricula, Croatian and Bosnian. It has a seven regional schools: Bistrica, Lovnica, Lupoglav, Viniste, Seliste, Papratnica and Ravne.

Currently the school has 1,344 students.

In this school today operate numerous sections: literary - poetry, dance, traffic, floristic, drama, sports clubs, choir, orchestra, and sections foreign languages.

We are very excited to participate in the chain reaction 2020!

Lithuania

ŠIAULIAI „JUVENTA“ SCHOOL

school doors opened in 1971 in its first generation and in 1999/2000 school year, pupils and teachers chose her a new name: „Juventa“ High School.Our school always was famous of it‘s music. Our school is famous not only for his musical achievements. Our students actively participate in various arts, sports contests and competitions. The school is decorated with ever-changing exhibition of works by students. Students participate in various projects: the Comenius, eTwinning, the city and the republic. You can find a primary school drama, road safety, the fine arts section in „Juventa“ school. Visit our website!

Slovenia

Our school lies in Preska, a village not so far away from Slovenia's capital Ljubljana. It consists of two parts: the old and the new one. In the old part we have classrooms for art classes, history and craft, a dining room and a kitchen. We also have a very friendly chef, which will always make you laugh. In the new, bigger part, there are classrooms for Science (Chemistry and Physics), Math, Slovene, English, Music, Biology, Geography and a computer classroom. There are also two gyms and a library with over 14,000 books.

Primary school Preska is visited by students from villages Preska, Golo Brdo, Studenčice, Goričane, Sora and Dol. It also has two branch schools in Topol and Sora. There are about 400 students in our school at the very moment.

Want to know more? Visit our website!

Belgium

Qworzó is an elementary school in a small village called Merksplas which lays about 70 km north of Brussels.
We speak Dutch like they do in the Netherlands, since our school is located in Flanders.
Since there are a lot of people in Belgium who speak French we also learn French in school.

Our school teaches about 400 children aged 3,5 – 12 years.
We are very enthusiastic about the fifth anniversary of The European Chain Reaction and we hope many schools will join the project!

Want more info? Visit our website!

England

King’s Ely is an independent school set in the historic and beautiful city of Ely, not far Cambridge. The school was established to educate the boy choristers of Ely Cathedral over 1,000 years ago, making it one of the oldest schools in the world. There are approximately 350 pupils in King’s Ely Junior and, although we have participated in several eTwinning projects, this is our first time in the European Chain Reaction. We are very much looking forward to the challenge.

To find out more about our school, please visit our website on http://www.kingsely.org/

Latvia

Pāle Primary School is situated in a small rural village with about 700 inhabitants, in the northern part of Latvia 22 km from the Baltic Sea. There are 90 students (7-16 years old) in the Primary school level, 29 children in the preschool group, 18 teachers and 8 technical workers.

The school was built in 1936. About 20 students have learning difficulties and some students are at a risk of social exclusion. For that reason we are realizing not only the general education programme, but also the programme for students with the learning difficulties. Every year our students participate in regional Olympiads of school subjects, different projects, sports, music and art competitions, showing good results. http://palesskola.lv

Macedonia

“Tode Hadzi-Tefov” Primary School was founded in 1962 by the local authorities in Kavadarci, Macedonia. At the moment, 768 students study at this school. Students are aged from 6 to 15 (from first to ninth grade). Students from first to fifth grade start school at 7:30 a.m. and finish at 12:30 p.m. Students from sixth to ninth grade start school at 1 p.m. and finish at 6:30 p.m. There are 58 teachers and 15 other employees in the school. There are 17 classrooms and 5 cabinets (specialized classrooms). There are 538 computers in the school and there is a computer for every student in the school and an internet connection. Students study in their mother tongue, Macedonian language, which is the official language in Macedonia. Students also study English, French and German. There are 6 teachers who teach English, one teacher who teaches French and one teacher who teaches German. Our school has won the award as a Green School in Macedonia three times. Have a look at our schoolwebsite here!

Norway

Kringsjå skole

Our school is located on the south coast of Norway, just outside the center of Kristiansand. Kristiansand is Norway’s no. 1 summer holiday resort and the fifth largest town in Norway, with 85000 inhabitants.

Situated in a rural area, the school is surrounded by a forest, and within a short walk we also have lakes, the sea, beaches and mountains. We try to use our natural surroundings in our everyday school life.

Kringsjå school is a primary school and this year we have 225 pupils from 1^st to 7^th grade. Norwegians start school at the age of six and leaves for secondary school at the age of thirteen. At our school we have 30 employees, 18 of them are teachers.

Our school has been involved in international projects earlier, and we are happy to take part in this event. The 30 pupils in the 7th grade are our participants in the European Chain Reaction. We are looking forward to this challenge!

Visit us on our homepage: www.minskole.no/kringsja

The European Chain Reaction 2020

Monday 6 January 2020

1 - Belgium - Technical Chain Reaction

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Austria

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Germany

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Lithuania

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Serbia

Slovenia

Belgium

England

Latvia

Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Spain

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