Sunday 19th October

Sunday 19th October

This was our final day in Melbourne as we left the hostel at 7am and travelled to the airport for our flight at 9.45am

Here we are waiting for our plane to be loaded....

Saturday 18th October

Saturday 18th October - Day 2


After arriving at La Trobe University we met with the other teams completing the Applied technology challenge in a lecture theatre. We soon noticed that we had to compete against teams that were up to Year 8 when we arrived!!!!
After being given our instructions we moved off to our designated room with our supervisor.
We then had three hours to work on our challenge. During this time we had morning tea and also had to complete our Spontaneous challenge.


After 3 hours was up we then packed away all our props and materials and returned to the lecture theatre.
During lunch out on the Simpson lawn we were not able to talk about our challenge.
After lunch we moved back into the theatre and presented our 10 min presentation to the other schools and parents.

                                                     Here we are setting up for our presentation

                                                 Receiving our participation awards


After the presentations we went back to the Simpson lawn for a drumming session with a group of drummers.

At 5.45pm we then moved to the Eagle restaurant in Campus for a yummy buffet dinner.
This included a BBQ, Chinese, Indian food and Pasta.

At 7pm we then moved to the Union hall for the Prize giving

Applied Technology was the first section to be presented.
We are very proud of the team as we received Honors - which meant that we were the runners up in our section.

Here we are with our medals at Prize giving. We were also excited as we were the only NZ team gain a prize!

17th October 2014

Day 1 - Tournament of Minds - Melbourne

First we travelled by Tram to the State Hockey and Netball centre

After the opening ceremony we visited Melbourne zoo and completed the Survivor challenge

 Here is our celebrity we met when we went out for dinner at night, We Took this photo as part of the Survivor challenge

Day 2 - Arriving at La Trobe University

16th October 2014

Here is the team after checking in at Wellington Airport, we are very excited about our huge adventure ahead!!!!

We had to wait tqo hours for our flight. We entertained ourselves by watching our plane being loaded with all the luggage as well as finding some cool places to take photos.
Our plane was full so it took a long time to get ready and we left half an our late, however we still managed to arrive in Melbourne only 5 mins late.
On the plane we had a yummy dinner and got to watch movies.

When we arrived in Melbourne it was only 6pm as we had gained two hours. After waiting half and hour we travelled on a bus with two other teams from NZ to pour accommodation.
Mrs McKenzie went with us on the bus and then we met the other parents at our accommodation,
after we unpacked we went out for dinner.
Here is a photo of the view of the city from our room!

Monday 29th September

Training Day

Today we were super keen as we actually came to school for the first day of our school holidays.
First we put together a photo for the first part of the Survivor challenge.
Here is our entry...




After this improvisation activities we started a 3 hour challenge.
Our 3 hour challenge was based around a "Lost City"
We finished just in time for Kim to them come and to some Drama activities with us. These drama skills are a great help with our presentation.

Wednesday 24th September

Wednesday 24th September

Today we looked at examples of previous 3 hour challenges and considered what skills we need to work on. We made a list of skills and then thought about questions we needed to clarify when we have a day at school in the holidays.

We also rehearsed our team work for  spontaneous challenges so that we are prepared with a variety of strategies before tournament day in Melbourne.

To finish off we organised our bake sale for tonight!!!

This afternoon we are visiting Kena Kena School to talk to some students who have previously attended the finals in Australia.

Here we are rehearing spontaneous challenges

Tuesday 23rd September 2014

Tuesday 23rd September 2014


Today we held a bake sale at our Production, students from our classes baked some delicious treats for us to sell. At lunch time we made a huge sign for telling people what the bake sale for. After school we priced the baking. We made $150 so thank you for helping us raise money for our trip and we will have another bake sale tomorrow. : )

Nadja with her Banana cake she made!!!!!!