2003 School Magazine

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IN TE R A C T Interact is a club within the School which Another significant activity was t e charities and collection of bottle rings through the fundraises for various Sunshine Coast Lions Club. Once the weight organisations. Earlier this Year, the District of the bottle rings collected equals the Interact Conference was held at Brisbane weight of a disabled child, the equipment Girls Grammar School in the Ghermann they need is bought for them. Theatre. interact clubs from around Brisbane attended this conference to discuss Interact Throughout the Year a project sponsoring students from a Brisbane Secondary School and the activities of the Rotary projects enabled Interact to actively help financially world. This conference gave the group disadvantaged fellow students' Money raised inspiration to make a difference to the School from a successful sausage sizzle and clothes and community, hear how to run efficient kindly donated from our School's lost learn the roles of president, meetings,

property at the end of each semester gave these students money for an account at their clothing pool and tuckshop, as well as for additional clothing Items necessary school comfort. The Year was an overall success and thanks must go to Mr Gary Bromiley and Mr Brier Thomas, our District Member Rotarian, for their support and guidance in this hectic Year.

He Ien Chong President

secretary, treasurer and director, hear what other clubs are doing, find out new ideas for service activities and meet other Interactors in the district As well, for the school Open Day, Interact raised a large sum of money for Interpiast, a volunteer program sponsored by Rotary that performs reconstructive plastic surgery In third-world nations, by selling chocolate covered strawberry-marshmallow kebabs and

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chocolate-coated strawberry purinets. A huge amount of time and effort was put into making these but the end result was worth all the hard work, as they sold out extremely quickly. , ' , .47 IN T E RN ATI O N AL Y O U N G P H Y SI CI S T S T O U R N AM E N T The International Young Physicists Tournament 11YPTl was created sixteen years (Brisbane Grammar School), Thomas Sze Brisbane Grammar SchooljBrisbane Girls ago in the USSR to foster scientific research IBrisbane Grammar Schooli and Skye Perkins Grammar School host team. A second and improve international communication in (Fairholme College, Toowoomba). GenevieVe Australian Team will be selected at the IYPT physics. The tournament is held annually with Thornson, an ex-Grammar Girl was one of the Australia Challenge in 2004. numerous countries participating. Unlike Team Leaders in Sweden. most other science competitions for high In between rounds of the competition the girls Mr A1an Allinson school students, the competition 15 team found time to make friends with the other Co- ordinator based with an emphasis on research, competitors from twenty- experiment ation and problem solving. it two countries and visit both promotes good presentation, communication Uppsala and Stockholm I. I=,,:~?' . *<. ' ,'~'^ and debating skills and improves students' I' ;^ * L , ,,. ....... selected in the Australian Team were Lewis Au already been selected to be part of the joint

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in the October 2002, the seventeen complex problems that will form the basis of the 2003 competition were released. Teams researched The tea in these problems both theoretically and Australia's excellent recent experimental Iy to produce the best solution finishes of second in 2001 possible. There is 00 perfect solution to any of and third in 2002 with a the problems and some are even currently joint third position in this being researched at universities event behind the winning In May 2003 three teams from Brisbane Girls team of Germany. A truly Grammar School competed in the first IYPT fantastic week! Australia Challenge. After a fantastic Australia and Brisbane competition the team of Emma Lewis, Angela Girls Grammar School will Sheu, Panayiota Tanos and Caitlin Wilson host the 17th international from Brisbane Girls Grammar School were the Young Physicists Tournament worthy champions. The team to represent in June 2004 and Australia at the 16th IYPT in the city of Erina MCDonald, Alexandra Uppsala, Sweden was selected and included Mercer and Emily See have Panayiota Tanos and Caitlin Wilson. Also their base in Wik. continued

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