On Sunday October 15, a team of seven Home Hill State High School students were named state champions for the Opti-MINDS media communications category. The students travelled to Brisbane on Friday the 13th after winning the regional level competition, automatically qualifying the team for the state finals where they competed against schools across the state.
Opti-MINDS is a program that is offered to kids in school between preschool to year twelve, providing the opportunity to embark on a proposed challenge in one of the four categories: Language literature, media communications, science engineering and social sciences.
When competing in the regional competition the students were given six weeks to prepare a solution to a proposed stimulus, whilst at the state competition the team only had a total of three hours to tackle the prompt; “influence has its own voice”. One of the team's favourite parts of the solution process was “the light bulb moment one of us had to then kick start our solution process,” Martina Bojack stated. The team’s ten minute presentation was marked on humour, creativity, audience engagement and unpredictability, all areas the students successfully excelled in.
The team had a number of support networks who assisted in sponsoring travel and guiding the team through this opportunity.
“We would like to thank Ms Flynn, Mrs Young and Mr Kingma as well as the local organisations and businesses that assisted with the cost of our travel,” said Jacob Machin on behalf of the team.
The school and the region are extremely proud of the students' efforts and to have walked away as state champions is more than what the students were expecting to get out of this experience.
Ms Victoria Flynn (Facilitator), Saelym White, Mitchell Cooke, Sean Phayre-Leung (Holding the state trophy), Martin Bojack (Holding the regional trophy), Jasmine Styles, Jacob Machin and Lucy Young. Photo Credit: Gracie Hosie
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