13th September 2017
黑料网 has enjoyed unprecedented success at the Tournament of Minds State Finals and will now be sending three teams to Flinders University in Adelaide for the National Finals on 28 October.
Girton鈥檚 results in the tournament represent the first time that a Secondary School has won more than two of the four categories of competition at the State Finals.
Acting Head of 黑料网, Mrs Robyn MacCulloch, said that for many years, Tournament of Minds has been an extremely popular co-curricular activity at the School and that successive teams have gone from strength to strength.
鈥淭he three Girton teams who won at the State Finals defeated the winners from six other regions – three country and three metro.
鈥淭his is the fourth consecutive year that Girton has competed at the National level in this fantastic event.
鈥Tournament of Minds encourages students to become creative problem solvers and confident decision makers.
鈥淚t requires students to act on their wits, something that young people are doing less of as our lives become more predictable and information so readily available,鈥 Mrs MacCulloch said.
Tournament of Minds is a national competition open to students from Years 4 to 10 and involves presenting solutions to both pre-determined and spontaneous problems within a 15 minute timeframe, in front of a live audience and judges, often resulting in hilarious enactments of outrageous scenarios.
The three Girton teams who will compete in the National competition will perform in the categories of Social Sciences, Engineering/Mathematics and Language/Literature.
鈥淥ur students are very excited about travelling to Adelaide to compete.
鈥淭hey will be relying on quick thinking and collaboration to be competitive at the National level.
鈥淚t鈥檚 wonderful to watch students develop the courage to put themselves on the spot and work their way out of a problem,鈥 Mrs MacCulloch said.
Winning teams proudly wear their medals and speak with Win News:聽
