On Tuesday the 21st of November, Niamh O’Dea came to work with the third class on a STEAM project. Firstly, she explained that she only had one shoe and she wanted us to make her another shoe. We were then split into groups of 5. She showed us a PowerPoint and went through all of the steps. We had to make a plan and figure out how to design our shoes. Each group had to measure her foot and her ankle, and we drew sketches of what we wanted to make. We had brought in materials like plastic, bottle tops, CDs, cardboard, and newspaper the day before. Then we set to work, and she only gave us 15 minutes to make the shoe! One of the most useful materials was cardboard as we could use it to make the shape of the shoe. Some of the groups also made logos for the shoe such as Nike, Crocs, etc. When we finished the shoes we all went outside to test them out. Niamh had to try on each shoe and see if she could walk across the yard. Some of the shoes broke, but most of them worked really well! We really enjoyed the workshop and we will be doing another one in December. Our favourite parts of the workshop were planning in our groups and building the shoes.

By Ben Hanrahan, Kieran Fitzpatrick, Sofia Keane and Eva O’Reilly.