My CCA

About a week ago, I went to my CCA(Socrates club) for the first time. Firstly, we had an introduction to what socrates club was all about. They showed us the HCI socrates club website and their blog, etc. We introduced ourselves to everyone. We also had an ice breakers activity and it was quite fun. After that, we played whacko and it was funny as I keep sabotaging the seniors and they became the whacko. Then, we were broken into groups to plan for the maths festival, board games competition, etc. I liked the last part most, there was MCDONALDS for us to eat as the senior done well in the SYPF or something like that.
Actually, there was some CCAs which I wanted to go too. This is how I chose my CCAs: 1st choice: Socrates(which I thought that I must put as first choice as I was invited and that I like maths very much) 2nd choice: Robotics(which I was very interested in) 3rd Choice: Mediatech(So that I do not have to run the cross country(Gary, the iCouncil Chairman told me this)) 4th Choice: EC3(which I thought that I could not get in) 5th: Shooting(did not want a sport so I put shooting as 5th choice so that there was less choice of getting in) 6th: Scouts(did not want to go to this most).
This is the reason of the order of my CCAs: Socrates(I like maths very much), Robotics(very interested in it), Mediatech(for fun), EC3(about computers), Shooting(sport that has air-con as we needed to choose a sport and an uniformed group, Scouts(got television). If you have noticed, all my choices of CCAs all are air-conditioned(except scouts as all uniformed groups did not have air-con).I went for the trials for Robotics,Mediatech and EC3.
During the trial for robotics, we were divided into groups to build an indestructable and creative structure. We build a car which had a roller-coaster like seat belt for the "driver" so that the driver would not fall out. We also had an interview which they asked us questions such as why we wanted to join robotics and how would we contribute if we joined robotics. I was not prepared, so I did not really know what to say. Then, there was another "interview" which the seniors asked us some questions about robotics such as why a robot which had two motors(one on each side) and which was programmed to move straight, turned when it was tested.
During the 1st session of the trial for mediatech, I was introduced to mediatech and what mediatech was about it lasted for only 30mins and I went home after it. During the 2nd session of the trial for mediatech, we were interviewed which I didn't prepare for(again!). It was a very short interview and lasted for only a minute or two. They only asked us about our experiences of AV/Photography/Videography.
For the EC3 trial, we were given a test which tested our basic IT knowledge(such as the operating systems). We also had to do some tasks such as duplicating google, etc. Then, we were interviewed, it was like the format of robotics and I didn't prepare for it(again!).
Socrates club did not have a trial session or anything like that and I only found out that it was about maths recently. I do not regret joining Socrates Club as it is quite fun and the teachers are very friendly.