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Just describing what each one means might challenge many adults, but for 12-year-old All Saints’ College student Toby Gough he took it all in his stride.
He was among 110 students who took part in the 11th annual Mighty Minds Muster on Thursday.
Held at The Scots School, the event attracted 13 teams of Year 5 and 6 students from eight schools across Bathurst, Oberon, Orange and the Blue Mountains.
During the full-day event, students were tasked to work together on challenges that involved: maths, engineering, English, science, art, poetry, geography, history and theatre sports.
The outright winner on the day was the All Saints’ College team.
Coming in second was a team from The Assumption School, while the St Philomena's Catholic Primary School team were third.
Toby and his school friend Shubhang Nagar, 11, worked together on the English challenge during the second session of the competition.
“It’s not difficult. It’s good when we’re working together,” Toby said.
The Scots School students Jacob Browne, 10, Catani Reynolds, 10, Hannah Manhood, 10, and Claire Halpin, 10, teamed up for the engineering session to make a roller-coaster out of a range of preselected items.
“We just looked at the criteria and we are trying to follow it,” Hannah said.
Event co-ordinator, and Scots School Junior head, Anthony Roohan, said students received a number of benefits from taking part in the one-day event.
“It’s a day of challenges and in the morning they had 75 minutes to work through three challenges,” he said.
“It’s great at developing team building, co-operation, time management and problem solving.”
Mr Roohan said teams had to determine where the strengths lie and who was the best person to work on a particular project or deliver a certain presentation to staff for judging.
“It caters to all their strengths,” he said.
Teams received points for each of the challenges as the day progressed.
“All schools were acknowledged with either a bronze, silver or gold certificate for their participation,” Mr Roohan said.
“It was a very close competition.”