TOURNAMENT OF MINDS (TOM) RESULTS

We had a fun day at the Tournament of Minds (TOM) Regional Finals on Saturday. The students all did really well and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

I am thrilled to announce that the following teams made it into the State Final of TOM, which will take place on Saturday 17 September at ECU Joondalup. At this event, teams will receive a new problem to solve and only have three hours to come up with a presentation of their solution.

Congratulations to Team 6 (Language Literature coordinated by Mrs Loretta De Conti) who received Honours and to Team 4 (Language Literature coordinated by Mrs Tanya Atherton) who won the State Trophy for the best Spontaneous response. The question was “Money doesn’t grow on trees”, what three things could grow on trees and what impact would those items have on the future?' They only had four minutes to come up with a response. The team cleverly used idioms to answer the question.

We are proud to announce that the following teams will be competing in the State Final:

STEM Team 3 coordinated by Mr Julien Hunt

Oskar Tindall (Year 9 Barlow), Austin Shibu (Year 9 Thu Duc), Ethan Toms (Year 9 Hannan), Oliver Lee (Year 9 O'Reilly), Owen Buck (Year 9 Hannan), Oliver Stupple (Year 9 Normandy), Josie Hunt (Year 9 O'Reilly)

LANGUAGE LITERATURE Team 4 coordinated by Mrs Tanya Atherton and Student Facilitators Julia Buswell (Year 11 Barlow) and Josie Hicks (Year 11 Trinity)

Niamh Hackett (Year 10 O'Reilly), Xavier Prentice (Year 10 Barlow), Jay Wilson (Year 10 O'Reilly), Chris Baker (Year 10 Hannan), Savannah Lauri (Year 8 Thu Duc), Neave Norman (Year 8 Hannan) and Maria Nasr (Year 8 Thu Duc).

SOCIAL SCIENCE Team 2 coordinated by Mr Aaron Richards

Charlotte Selth (Year 9 Carden), Madeleine Budas (Year 10 Normandy), Tess Fogarty (Year 9 Carden), Alison Nolan (Year 10 Normandy), Mr Aaron Richards, Aimee Berichon (Year 10 Hannan), Ariel Wilson (Year 10 Kimberley) and Ameley Miller (Year 9 Carden)

SOCIAL SCIENCE Team 7 coordinated by Mrs Tanya Atherton

Charlene Lau (Year 8 Normandy), Jaime Sadlo (Year 8 Carden), Oliver Budas (Year 8 Normandy), Riley Malloch-Brown (Year 8 Thu Duc), Aidel Sabu (Year 8 Barlow), Luca Traynor (Year 8 Carden) and Jacob Smith (Year 8 Trinity).

ARTS Team 1 coordinated by Mrs Tanya Atherton and Student Facilitator Kayah Swiatopelk-Mirski-Smith (Year 11 Trinity)

Erin Kretschmer (Year 10 Carden), Georgia Curtis (Year 9 Normandy), Angelina Curtis (Year 9 Normandy), Emma McQuillen (Year 9 Hannan), Katherine Banwell (Year 8 Thu Duc), Sofia Rippingale (Year 9 Barlow) and Alicia Ryan (Year 10 Kimberley)

Teams that are successful at the State Finals will go on to represent WA in Canberra at the International Final later in the year.

Mrs Tanya Atherton

Head of Gifted and Talented