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TOM 2010 Dates Proposed dates for the 2010 Tournament of Minds Pro-gram are below. Please note that the Regional Finals will be on one of two weekends next year, depending on your Re-gion. Final venues and dates will be available in the 2010 brochure you will re-ceive by mail in February 2010, and on our website.

Regional Finals

21-22 August 2010 or

28-29 August 2010

Victorian State Final

12 September 2010

La Trobe University

Australasian Pacific Final

21-24 October 2010

Darwin, Northern Territory

Our 2010 Program Brochure will be mailed to all Victorian schools in early February next year. This will include all you need to know … venue information, dates, costs (no increases!), re-sources and workshops.

If you are participating in TOM in 2010, schools should register on the VIC Web Portal by 30th May 2010:

www.tom.edu.au

Thank You!! A big thank you to all TOM school coordina-tors, team facilitators, judges, parents and committee members who supported our program in 2009. We hope you and your stu-dents found it a re-warding, worthwhile and enjoyable experi-ence.

We look forward to your participation again in 2010.

Your Feedback We are always looking at ways to improve our program and would appreciate your con-structive comments on the 2009 Program. Ac-companying this news-letter you will find a two page feedback survey. You can fill out as much or as little as you like, and you need not fill in your personal details if you do not wish. Once completed we prefer you email it back. We are more than happy if you wish

to provide additional comments, sugges-tions and ideas to im-prove TOM in the fu-ture.

Well Done Teams! Congratulations to all teams on a fine effort at this year’s Regional, State and Australasian Pacific Finals.

Many judges com-mented on the won-derfully creative ideas and impressive presen-tations that teams pro-duced in all regions.

The TOM program en-courages real life learning. The Chal-lenges are not easy - with many rules to fol-low, forms to complete

Wishing you a Clever Christmas and a Nifty New Year!

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and limitations to con-sider. The Regional Maths Eng. Challenge was a doozy this year!

It is an excellent result for a team that worked through these difficul-ties to present at the Regional Finals.

Tournament of Minds is a process, and what’s most important are the skills that can be de-veloped, the life ex-periences that can be gained and the very real learning that can take place through the team doing its best, honestly and with in-tegrity. These skills will take team members much further and last far longer than the thrill of winning may do.

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The Victorian Teams performed extremely well at the Australasian Pacific Final in Bris-bane on the 24th Octo-ber 2009. All team members did their team, school and state proud, and with one of our best efforts ever!

Congratulations to the following teams who represented Victoria:

Sherbourne Primary School - Primary Ap-plied Technology

St Margaret's School - Primary Language Lit-erature

Bairnsdale Primary School - Primary Maths Engineering

Fintona Girls' School - Primary Social Sci-ences

Girton Grammar Team 4 - Secondary Applied Technology

The Knox School Team 6 - Secondary Lan-guage Literature

Girton Grammar Team 1 - Secondary Maths Engineering

The Knox School Team 5 - Secondary Social Sciences And the results ...

Sherbourne Primary School - First Place, Primary Applied Tech-nology

St Margaret's School - Honours, Primary Language Literature

St Margaret's School - Special Tournament Award for Out-standing Performance

Australasian Pacific Results

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Fintona Girls' School - Honours, Primary So-cial Sciences

Girton Grammar Team 4 - Honours, Secon-dary Applied Technol-ogy

Girton Grammar Team 1 - Honours, Secon-dary Maths Engineer-ing

The Knox School - Honours, Secondary Social Sciences.

St Margaret’s School

Fintona Girls’ School

The Knox School Team 5

The Knox School Team 6

Girton Grammar

Team 1

Girton Grammar

Team 4 The APF09 Victorian Team

Sherbourne Primary School

Winners: Primary AT

The national website at www.tom.edu.au has been upgraded re-cently, so please take the time to navigate around the new site.

The Victorian Web Por-tal has a direct link from the national site. All the latest Victorian news, including Tour-nament dates, venues and results, will now only appear on the Vic-torian page of the na-tional site and no longer on the Victo-rian Portal.

The Victorian Web Por-tal will continue to al-

low you to:

Register your school

Nomina te you r teams

Register for Profes-sional Development workshops

Enter & review Chal-lenge Clarifications

Download the Re-gional Challenges

D o w n l o a d t h e Schools’ Instruction Manual and other resources

Download maps and Info for parents

We anticipate with the new national website that there will be even more useful functions to assist schools, judges and committees in run-ning the TOM Program.

TOM on Facebook

TOM has had a Face-book page for a while now, so why not en-courage your students to use it to connect with like-minded students Australia-wide.

Click here to link to Facebook!

Tournament of Minds is proudly sponsored by:

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WORKSHOPS TOM provides a selec-tion of Professional De-velopment Workshops and Student Incursions to support the TOM Pro-gram.

The 2010 PD Program will be available from the Victorian Workshops page on the TOM web-site and via the VIT’s Pdi website. You can register for any PD Workshop online via the VIC Portal.

The Student Incursion Program provides the following 1.5-2 hour modules for you to choose from:

TOM Introduction

The Long Term Challenge

The Spontaneous Challenge

Thinking Skills

Drama Skills

Team Skills

Student Facilitators

Schools can book a sin-gle module or series of modules to suit their specific needs. Call Geraldine Nicholas now on 9818 8311 to book your dates for 2010.

2009 Applied Technology Language Literature Maths Engineering Social Sciences

PRIMARY

First Place Sherbourne Primary School Team 2 Movie Maniacs

St Margaret's School Team 1 Seeds of Thought

Bairnsdale Primary School Team 1

Fintona Girls' School Team 1 JJASSEG Drama Queens

Honours (alphabetical order)

Girton Grammar School Team 8 Buggles Hampton Primary School Team 1 Techsperts

Ballarat Grammar Team 2 Grammar Smarticles Foster Primary School Team 2 Foster Bookworms

Fitzroy North Primary School Team 1 The Message Pi Girton Grammar School Team 5 Flaming Eagles

Glen Katherine Primary Team 5 St Paul's Anglican Grammar Team 2 Braindrops

SECONDARY

First Place Girton Grammar School Team 4 Tom Technos

The Knox School Team 6

Girton Grammar School Team 1 Rabid Mongooses

The Knox School Team 5 Singfants

Honours (alphabetical order)

FCJ College Team 1 Technos Lowther Hall AGS Team 5 Purple Hippos

St Catherine's School Team 3 Wonthaggi Secondary Coll. Team 1 The Collaborators

Heathdale Christian College Team 2 The Receivers St Francis Xavier College Team 2 The Uhms Tintern Schools Team 3

Balwyn High School Team 3 Lake Bolac College Team 1 Laydeezman

Victorian State Final Results

TOM Website Upgrade

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For all Regional Final results check the Victorian Results page at www.tom.edu.au.

TOM Office: Ground floor, 123 Church Street, Hawthorn 3122 Telephone 9818 8311 Fax 9818 8344 Email: vic-director@tom.edu.au

The TOM Christmas Sale! The TOM Office is currently being upgraded and we have quite a number of surplus items for sale. If you are interested in any of the items below for your school, yourself or a friend, please call us quickly on 9818 8311 to organise pickup and payment. All items must be collected and paid for prior to Christmas. Items can be shipped at your cost if necessary.

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