Finals Day!!

 The teams came together on Zoom again to reflect and give feedback on the Inventionator Conference - a great wordle was created to share the thoughts from all the students around the country.  Then it was time for Jensen, Logan and Ben to get back to shaping and refining their presentations for the afternoon's Grand Finals.

                                          

 

           Pizza lunch revived the weary and added to an air of excitement ahead of the afternoon's hui.

All joined together again for the final zoom hui...

The presentations went very well for all the teams.

  It was hard to be patient but finally the judging was complete.

The Results!!

Congratulations to the Jensen and the Lean Leashes on winning the "2021 Rationale Award."

And to Ben, Logan and the Playful Pups on winning the "2021 Delivery Award."

A wonderful result for our first year taking part in this event.  Once the joyful exuberance had settled down (just a little!) the students had this to say about taking part.

Positive

MM - It was great to have the chance to be a part of it and I hope I get to do it again.

JB - I really liked working as a team and finding new people that I worked well with.

MC - I’m grateful for the whole experience, the opportunity to do it and working with other students.

MH - I'm grateful that I have a good team and the whole experience was really fun.

LC - I’m grateful for the pizza and my understanding team and my teacher Pou Toria.

BH - I think that it was tiring but totally worth it.

Minus

MM - they brought up our hopes by saying we might get into the finals - (based on judges comments)

MC - I feel nearly the same feeling as MM

LC - It was a bit stink because someone else in another team said “I don’t think you are going to make it to the finals..” in the group chat.

BH - I would like to actually be able to meet the people. Only meeting them virtually was really hard

JB - technical difficulties was a minus

MH - probably how long we had spend in the zoom meetings  - it would be easier to take more days and sit for shorter times.

Interesting

MM - I think it was interesting how the format of everything was - I liked how everything was put on the timetable. Things were similar but there was some different activities so we weren’t just doing the same thing every day.

MC - The whole timetable - I knew nothing going into it and how we actually did it was pretty good. Each day was similar but you got used to it fast.

JB - how rude some people were - some people were surprisingly rude (in the chat)

BH - Everything! It was all flat out interesting!

MH - What other people came up with  - their ideas.

LC - Our team member was from way down the bottom of the South Island