Caningeraba STEMinators
Our Caningeraba STEMinators absolutely crushed the competition with their clever creativity. Their challenge was to investigate the four systems on Earth: the lithosphere (land), atmosphere (air), hydrosphere (water) and biosphere (living things). They had to develop a scientific theory as to what had caused disunity between the spheres and a way to restore the balance. They needed to design and build an interlocking 3D emblem that represented the Earth's spheres. The spheres had to break apart and then reassemble in a new stronger configuration. They also needed to incorporate scaled diagrams and a video report. They chose costumes and music as their presentation skills. The costumes were clever and reversible and the songs were catchy adaptations of popular songs. They had the judges jiving along to their jingles and the audience in awe of their attention to detail.
The team consisted of Finn, Van, Rafferty, Zac, Levi, Sonny & Walker. They took out first place convincingly with an almost perfect score (only one point deducted) in their long term challenge with the judge personally coming up after the event and congratulating them on how polished they performed and asking for advice on how to get a team to achieve at that level.
Caningeraba So Scientrific
Our Caningeraba Social Science team were as cool as cucumbers and thrived under pressure. Their challenge was to pitch a proposal to the council about a site location for a new community centre and include the ideas and sketches for a layout of the facilities that would be inclusive of multiculturalism, different ages and ability groups. They incorporated the presentation skills of humour and speech styles. They had the judges giggling to their Gen Alpha jokes and the audience applauding for their acting skills.
The team consisted of Hanna, Elsie, Hannah, Emmy, Carson and Ace. This team have shown the most impressive resilience and despite some team members not being able to attend at either the regional or the state competition it is has not dampened the TOMs team spirit of this bunch.
Caningeraba Artastics
Our Caningeraba Artastics were given the challenge to create two collaborative art works for the United Nations Convention that would spread the message of global unity and promote peace. They create both a visual art piece in the form of a collage inspired by their chosen artists of an unknown graffiti artists, Banksy and a performing arts dance piece inspired by the first African American principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre, Misty Copeland. The team chose the presentation skills of costumes, using fabrics with bold cultural designs and sewing them together. They also used the presentation skills of languages and actually introduced themselves in a variety of languages. They had the judges' jaws dropping with their fashion design skills and audience amazed at their accents and dialects.
The team consisted of Evelyn, Frankie, Finlay, Sophie, Tahlia and Mahlia and Milli. This team delivered a heartwarming moment whilst performing their finale piece; singing beautifully like angels and dancing gracefully like butterflies to, “We are the World" that when you looked into the audience at all the Mums, Dads, teachers and admin members, there was not a dry eye in the house.
All teams are highly ambitious and are already planning their trip to Sydney for the National competition, but we still have this one minor detail…we have to win the State competition in Brisbane first! Wish us luck!
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Our three TOMs teams competed Sunday at TSS in a long term challenge and spontaneous challenge. These students have worked extremely hard over the past 6 weeks to prepare for the competition; giving up lunch break and after school times. The competed in the Arts, STEM and Social Science. I am so proud of all the students for their work ethic and commitment in the preparations and was blown away by how they performed as absolute stars today.
We have had some amazing news…all 3 teams won!!!
This means we are all heading to the state competition. The state competition is in Brisbane at QUT Gardens Point on Saturday 13th September. These students will now work on preparing for the next challenge. Year 5 and 6 teachers more information will follow shortly in relation to scheduling practice times for them. Thank you for being so understanding to date.
The teams were supported by their family members in the audience and we are so grateful to have a supportive Caningeraba community. A special thank you to some amazing teachers Mrs Hurford and Mrs Sawley for their work in the lead up to the competition and for attending today, to Miss Gannon, Mrs Naughton and Miss Pearl for their help in the preparations up to today and to Mrs Flynn, Ms Mott and Mrs Daley who attended to support the students today.
I look forward to working further with all these amazing students!
Mrs B Dlugosz