1994 School Magazine

Girls' Otaniiiiar School3Brisbaiie 199+

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Tom^AMENT OF MINDS his year BGGS entered fotu. teams coiTTprising twenty- eight 51Lidenis from Years Eight, Nine and Ten. Two teams GPted for' the Language and Literature category; one leanT foi' the Social Science and one leanT for the Mathemai- ICs and Engineering category. TITe Maths and Engineering Team (Tealii TITree) won the Regional Tournament an <1 went on 10 compete in the Slate Final at Grimth University on Sunday. 11 September

A1 this level of competition the tealTT was presented will} the Long TetiTi ProgranT on Tournament Day and given three hours to solve the probleiiT before presenting to The judges panel They also ITad to respond 10 the short Spontaneous Problem Although the team did not win they participated with eneroy and coinnTitiiTent Tournament of Minds is a wonderfLil OPPorttinity for' siti- dents 10 enjoy working as a team, accept a challenoe, solve PIOblems and have fLin. All of otir students made the InOSI of the experience. They Ilad a wonderf111 time

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rina Palma' (Captain), Zoe Hildebrand, Sachiko Hamada, Yuko Hamada anti Leah Scholes were the B. G. G. S. team entered in the 1994 Year 8 Pacific Coal-QlvlAT Mathematics Quiz The Soutl} Brisbane zone quiz was iteld on July twenty-fifth at Somerville House. The girls performed well to win the zone competition willT thirty-three points, six points ahead of their nearest rivals. This win earned theIn the right to conTpete in the South-East Queensland final Nine schools collTpeted in the final WITich was held at All Hallows School on August twenty-second. TITe airls came equal seconc1 10 the winners, Rochedale Stale HiglT School, by one

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history and general knowledge, general mathematical calcula- lions, written prob- Iems and estimation The time allowecl to answer' the questions I is limited and the o1rls were tinder a lot of pressure, particularly in the sections which involved oral re- sponses .

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TOURNAMENT OF MINDS (TEAM 3) St""di, ,g (L-R): IVJs/ ./!!s!. I\'. SenJle, E Rogei\. C Poi, lei, , Sented (L-R): A UJbdiici'c-Keiiiu, . C. Kok. E Coinoi'd

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