{"id":9263,"date":"2022-10-20T11:04:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T00:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/?post_type=article&#038;p=9263"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:04:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T00:04:55","slug":"tournament-of-minds-2","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/article\/tournament-of-minds-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tournament of Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCEGGS just competed in Tournament of Minds International Final (TIF), in Canberra, in the Secondary STEM division for NSW.<\/p>\n<div class=\"highlight\">\n<p>We placed third\u2026so we can tell people we placed third in the world!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was a tough field with fierce competition between seasoned facilitators but we learned so much about the whole program and the way skills are critiqued. Ms Hung and I are so proud of the way the girls handled themselves: grace personified. These girls had a fantastic time and they were also studying every chance they got! Before the opening ceremony all the teams gathered outside Parliament House to badge swap. This is quite a social experience and there were many deals made to gain vintage or large badges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9263 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'>\n<figure class='gallery-item link-'>\n<div class='gallery-icon'>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/10\/Tournament-of-Minds_Badge-Swapping.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightcase:1:slideshow\" title=\"\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/10\/Tournament-of-Minds_Badge-Swapping-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='gallery-item__overlay d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center'><span class='fal fa-plus fa-2x'><\/span><\/div><\/figure>\n<figure class='gallery-item link-'>\n<div class='gallery-icon'>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/10\/Tournament-of-Minds_Train-Trip.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightcase:1:slideshow\" title=\"\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/10\/Tournament-of-Minds_Train-Trip-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='gallery-item__overlay d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center'><span class='fal fa-plus fa-2x'><\/span><\/div><\/figure>\n<figure class='gallery-item link-'>\n<div class='gallery-icon'>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/10\/Tournament-of-Minds_Lunch.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightcase:1:slideshow\" title=\"\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/10\/Tournament-of-Minds_Lunch-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='gallery-item__overlay d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center'><span class='fal fa-plus fa-2x'><\/span><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Please congratulate the following girls on their creativity, teamwork\u2026and international success!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Georgia Tsangaris (Year 9)<\/li>\n<li>Bianca Hardge (Year 9)<\/li>\n<li>Scarlett White (Year 7)<\/li>\n<li>Ruby Peters (Year 7)<\/li>\n<li>Rachel Li (Year 7)<\/li>\n<li>Evelyn Li (Year 7)<\/li>\n<li>Zara Grace (Year 7)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may find these young women applying for courses at Australian National University in due course; they really enjoyed the campus where we competed. We look forward to more teams representing NSW in future years.\u00a0 Next year the international final will be in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Veronica Schwedes<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>TOM Secondary School Facilitator<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCEGGS just competed in Tournament of Minds International Final (TIF), in Canberra, in the Secondary STEM division for NSW. We placed third\u2026so we can tell people we placed third in the world! It was a tough field with fierce competition between seasoned facilitators but we learned so much about the whole program and the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[45],"class_list":["post-9263","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_tag-co-curricular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/9263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}