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And the winners are.....

The winners of the Spatial Technology in Schools competition were awarded their prizes at a prize giving event held on 8 November at Kings Park.

The STiS competition (WA) prizegiving event was held on Thursday 8th November at the Vietnamese Pavilion, Kings Park. Over 100 students, teachers, mentors and sponsors enjoyed the spring weather.

Of the nine schools entering this year, eight attended the event where they received their awards and watched presentations by the two winning schools. The lunch was swarmed upon by the students but everyone managed to get a bite of something! This event closed the competition for the year - next year's competition will be launched at WALIS Forum.

Good luck to the WA entries in the AsiaPacific competition

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Click here for information on the Teachers Expo at the WALIS International Forum 2008

The prize winners were:

WA Winner

John Calvin Christian College, “Rottnest Island Sustainability Project”

Primary School

Nyindamurra Family School, “Species Mapping opens the door to our Future”

Click here to download a brief description of this project.

Second place

Perth Modern School, “Obesity and Socio-economic Status”

Third place and best new entrant

Shenton College, “MS Bushland Study”, click here to download a brief description of this project.

Most community minded

Ocean Reef High School, “Energy Saving Light Bulbs”

Most original idea

Guildford Grammar School, “GISGGS Optibus”

Special commendation

John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School, “Is JSRAC School a travel smart school?”

Special commendation

Methodist Ladies’ College, Mrs Quesnel’s class, “Rising Sea Levels at Cottesloe Beach”

Encouragement award

Methodist Ladies’ College, Mrs Lussick’s class, “MLC River foreshore changes”

Best presentation

Unable to allocate as all entries were excellently presented!

Some feedback from teachers:

"Yesterday’s event was wonderful and the students enjoyed it tremendously. Well done in organising an event like this – it really tops off the competition nicely".

"Thanks for a wonderful day yesterday, the students enjoyed seeing the other projects and it gave me plenty of inspiration for next year. The whole competition has been extremely well coordinated and the lunch topped it off nicely!"

"I wanted to say how much we enjoyed yesterday's lunch at Kings Park - the students especially enjoyed the day out and receiving their prize pack."

"Your organisational skills peaked with the event yesterday, I attended the launch, the teacher training, sent the students to training and used our mentors shamelessly - I certainly plan to enter again next year."

"Just to let you know that we had a lovely day on Thursday, and the kids were thrilled with their prizes. It was also nice to see the other projects as you never get to see them online and one of the biggest things when first starting out is getting ideas of how GIS can be incorporated into the curriculum – how do other teacher’s use GIS.

The presentation of other projects also got other non-S&E teachers thinking cross-curricular as they were also quite impressed with what is possible.

So, congratulations on a well organised event, and no doubt we will see you next year!"

"Thnx for the bag of goodies, judges feedback, photo site and all you do for the competition. The school is very happy with the prize. Teachers and students have reported a most enjoyable day."