Tournament of Minds 2023

Tournament of Minds 2023

This year Saint Ignatius College entered two teams into the annual Tournament of Minds Challenge - Team ‘Azure,’ an Arts team and Team ’Set in Stone’, a Language and Literature Team.

Both teams consisted of amazingly creative students from years 7 to 9 who really wanted to stretch their imaginations and creativity.

The teams worked at lunchtimes this term to imagine solutions to creative problems like:

• ‘suggest and design a statue that represents a literary character to display in a particular global location that would draw visitors to that location and increase tourism ‘ and

• ‘develop a 3D immersive art installation to represent one modern or contemporary artist and a piece of their work. The exhibition will travel the world so it needs to be portable and easy to assemble’.

Our teams presented their design challenges at a Western Regional showcase at Deakin University on Sunday 27th August. Both teams did a fantastic job of presenting to a panel of three judges and an audience of parents and students.

In addition to the prepared challenge the teams also participated in a spontaneous challenge for which they received very positive feedback from the judges.

Whilst our teams did not win the competition, the Language and Literacy team did receive an ‘Honours’ award for coming second place in their category and both teams represented themselves and our College proudly on the day.

Some of the judges’ comments included:

‘Congratulations on your performance, all team members played important roles in your entertaining presentation which was well prepared. Your statue was creatively made, enhancing the environmental theme. Great work!’

‘Congratulations on a creative performance. An effective use of soundscape showing clear connection to your artists' international appeal. A thoughtful interpretation of the Banksy environment. Overall, well done!’

Congratulations to all team members:

Georgia Van Hamond

Jasmine Haliwell

Olivia Agustsson

Liliana O’Meara

Mietta Corby

Jeeann Tinij

Lily Games

Ash Pitts

Hannah Schoenmakers

Leah McCurry

Ivy Winchester

Maisie-Rae Walker

Mrs Sadler

Tournament of Minds Mentor 2023