{"id":2560,"date":"2012-05-10T18:43:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T08:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2021-02-01T14:33:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T04:33:53","slug":"students-up-for-the-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2012\/05\/10\/students-up-for-the-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Up For The Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2561\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2561\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510kingaroy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2561\" title=\"Gold Fever\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510kingaroy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510kingaroy.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510kingaroy-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kingaroy SHS teammates Ethan Gunn, 15, and Cas Lewandowski, 14, assemble their mini bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2565\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2565\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510winningteam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2565\" title=\"Nanango State High School's winning team\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510winningteam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510winningteam.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510winningteam-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nanango State High School&#8217;s winning team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2564\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2564\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510trophy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2564\" title=\"Nanango Trophy\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510trophy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510trophy.jpg 350w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510trophy-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicola Brittain, 14, and Brianna Barron, 14, collect the trophy for the overall winning school on behalf of Nanango\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>May 10, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students from eight local schools gathered at Nanango today to test their science and engineering skills in a day-long competition presented by the University of Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>The Year 9 and 10 students competed against each other in both full-day and half-day challenges.<\/p>\n<p>They were awarded points for each activity with the school with the most points at the end of the day declared the winner.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s winner was <strong>Nanango State High School<\/strong> with an impressive 1287 total points.<\/p>\n<p>Runners-up were <strong>Murgon State High School<\/strong>\u00a0(908 points) and <strong>Kingaroy State High School<\/strong> (847 points).<\/p>\n<p>Other schools to compete in the 2012 Science and Engineering Challenge were Yarraman P-10, Goomeri P-10, Proston P-10, Wondai P-9 and Toogoolawah State High School.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2566\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510murgon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2566\" title=\"Catapult Team\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510murgon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510murgon.jpg 350w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510murgon-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murgon State High School&#8217;s winning Catapult team. From left, Brittany Holding, Samuel Dennien, Kiaowa McAninley and Geoffrey Kinsella<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Winners of the individual challenges were:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helter Skelter Shelter &#8211; Nanango State High School afternoon team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>ElectraCity &#8211; Murgon State High School morning team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Puff Puff Golf &#8211; Nanango State High School morning team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Back To The Future II &#8211; Nanango State High School morning team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Catapult &#8211; Murgon State High School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hover Frenzy &#8211; Nanango State High School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mission To Mars &#8211; Yarraman P-10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The day culminated with the <strong>Gold Fever challenge<\/strong> where each team was asked to construct a small bridge which was then tested with different weights until it failed.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of this event was Kingaroy State High School whose bridge failed under four weights.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2562\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2562\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510bridge1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2562\" title=\"Gold Fever\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510bridge1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510bridge1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510bridge1-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three weights pass across Kingaroy State High School&#8217;s bridge smoothly &#8230; the winning run!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2563\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2563\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510bridge2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2563\" title=\"Gold Fever\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510bridge2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510bridge2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120510bridge2-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four weights caused the bridge to buckle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students from eight local schools gathered at Nanango to challenge their science and engineering skills in a day-long competition presented by the University of Newcastle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3],"tags":[30,35],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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