College News 

Chess

Mr Peter McLeish

On Wednesday last week the O'Connor Chess Team took on St Mary's Gunnedah.

After Titanic struggles on all boards, St Mary's took the win via victories on Boards 1 and 3 to our wins on Boards 2 and 4.

This means we finished the entire tournament in 3rd place. A commendable performance in the North West region of the NSW Junior Chess League.

I am very proud of all the players who contributed to our success this year.

The team that played today; Bradley Lidgard, John Harris, Harrison Ross and Joe Schmude and also Angus Scrivener, Paige Latham and Archie Howarth.

Our Chess Team displayed wonderful sportsmanship throughout the competition and I look forward to them achieving even better results next year.

A Multitude of Opportunities - Angus Scrivener

In our previous edition of the College Newsletter we highlighted Angus's selection to attend the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) in January.  Angus has recently received news that he has been accepted into the 5th ANU-AAMT National Mathematics Summer School which will also take place in January 2022. Due to a clash in dates, Angus is in the process of deciding which event he will attend. These two achievements follow an earlier announcement that he will be attending the NSW Youth Parliament this year. 

National Youth Science Forum - Fletcher Schultz

Fletcher has been given the great opportunity of being selected to attend the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) in January. This is a fantastic forum and we look forward to hearing about his experiences over the week when he returns to Armidale for the new school year.

Lockdown Projects

We are keen to promote any projects that O'Connor students completed during out period of Connected Learning during lockdown. Seb Brotherson sent in this picture of the bowling machine that he and his father made over lockdown 2021. They started this project end of last year and after some initial teething problems, the unit is now working well.  They coded and made a mechanism that sends the ball through on its own, so you can face it by yourself and don't need someone putting them through. The lego piece holds the wire which moves upward to stop the balls in the pipe from going through and every 8 seconds it flicks down then up again, letting one ball roll and shoot out the front.  Well done to Seb and his Dad for making good use of an otherwise difficult time.