Tournament of Minds

At Aubin Grove Primary our students have shown themselves to be top problem solvers possessing the skills of perseverance, critical & creative thinking, effective time management and exceptional teamwork.

Aubin Grove Primary School has, in its short history, established a wonderful reputation in a challenging Australasian Pacific problem solving competition: Tournament of Minds. This competition requires a team of 7 students from Year 4 to Year 6 to combine all their talents and their high-level critical & creative thinking skills to solve an open-ended challenge. These can be in the disciplines of Engineering Mathematics; Language Literature, Science Technology or Social Science. Initially there is a regional competition where children have six weeks to devise a solution to a problem.

The top 3 – 5 scoring teams, from private and public school systems, across the state then progress to a State Final where they are given three hours to solve an open-ended challenge and present their solution to a panel of judges in the afternoon. They also complete a 5-minute spontaneous problem for a different panel of judges during the 3 hour period. The winner of the State Final then has the honour to represent WA in an Australasian Pacific Final which includes New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore as well as all the other States and Territories.
In our twelve-year involvement, Aubin Grove Primary School has been named one of the top three teams in the state for 11 years running. The school has won a State title 7 times and gone on to represent Western Australia in the Australasian Pacific Final. In 2016, a team of students won the Australasian Pacific Finals in the Language Literature division and in 2022 a team of students won the Australasian Pacific Final in the Social Science division.

We are very proud of the students and the culture that has developed at the school in embracing challenge and the constant striving for excellence.