Tournament of Minds

Tournament of  Minds has built a reputation for risk-taking and bold decision making and nowhere is it more evident than in the competition’s solution to the Covid-19 lockdown.

The international competition is open to school students right across the Asia Pacific region and the organising body has searched for a fair and equitable new competition format that will be available to all students no matter their country’s state of isolation.

The St John Paul College team has also been preparing during the lockdown period for all possible isolation scenarios.

The students have been attending regular Zoom meetings and have also attended school on their non-participation days to gain skills to meet the demands of the new competition format and be better skilled across a variety of KLAs.

The students have had additional Zoom meetings with Michael Booth from TAS who taught them new media applications and Renee Berrisford from Art who taught them mask making. Now the students are back on campus they will meet with Mark Hoare from Music who will teach them how to incorporate music for mood and story development and Melissa Cotton from Drama for individual performance techniques.

The students would like to thank those teachers for their extra time and care they have given them during this lockdown period.

Connor Gleeson and Matthew Harrison were taught to use a Drone for filming.

Linda Gleeson
TOM Facilitator