Mechanisms

3rd yr Technology

I love giving students a challenge and seeing what they come up with! This is just a little clip of a scotch yolk mechanism. You gotta love it!

6th Technology

Knife Holders

I love this one. Starting the term off with a practical exercise based on a shield for holding knives. The students came up with some interesting designs, especially the rotating knife thrower.

Rotating Knife Holder

1st Yr Technology

Pencil Holders

One of our first year classes sampling Technology for the first time. They produced some lovely little pencil holders as shown below.

LC Technology projects 2017

Proudly displaying some of our post Leaving Certificate student's work.

2nd year Technology

Cars and Jewellery Trees

Starting of the school year with a quick glance at some of the projects students finished off towards the end of May. Great work and some very interesting designs.

EA Games Robotic Games Ireland

Sumo Robot and Line Following GP competitions

Villiers school emerged as overall national champions and runners up in the mini sumo robot competition retaining the title for the second year in succession.

Our students battled it out, with two of the teams reaching the final. It was bitter sweet seeing them take on each other in the final, as Eoghan Campion and Darragh Vandenberg took on Ethan Dolan’s sumo robot who eventually went on to victory.

Adding to that success, Daniel Farushev then won the inaugural open sumo robot tournament in superb form.  This competition has no limitations on the design, components and programming of the robots.

To cap off the day, Laura Holubowicz and Sinead O’Donnel-Stloz took part in the line following GP and F1 competitions taking 1^st and 2^nd place respectively. Their robot independently navigated a grand Prix style track clocking the fastest time on the day.

It was a huge success for all the students who took part on the day and it was thoroughly enjoyable to see them come away with so many honours. Congratulations to all.

5th Year Technology

Night Lights

Students present their night light projects using a Genie c08 microcontroller. This is a lovely little project which allows students to get to grips with programming a basic microcontroller and sets them up for the coming challenge of programming their sumo robots. Lots of technology used here, from CADCAM to vacuum forming and laminating plywood and acrylic to give some unique effects when these lights shine.