WA Announcement
The 2024 Regional Tournament has concluded.
The following teams will be competing at the WA State Final on Saturday 14th September at ECU Joondalup.
Discipline | Primary | Secondary |
Language Literature | - Aubin Grove PS
- Esperance PS 1
- Mel Maria CPS 1
- Our Lady of Grace 1
| - Sacred Heart 3
- Sacred Heart 5
- St Mary MacKillop
| |
Social Sciences | - Esperance PS 2
- Mel Maria CPS 2
- Poynter PS 2
| - Esperance SHS
- Melville SHS 1
- Melville SHS 3
- Sacred Heart 1
|
STEM | - Mary's Mount PS 2
- Poynter PS 1
- St Thomas' 2
| - Carine SHS 1
- John XXIII College
- Sacred Heart 8
|
The ARTS | - Gingin DHS 2
- St Hilda's 1
- St Luke's 4
- St Peter's
| - Penrhos College 5
- Sacred Heart 6
- St Norbert College 1
|
Registrations
School registrations for the 2024 competition are now closed.
Teams of students can consist of students from one year group, or a mixture of year groups. There can be up to seven students per team.
Schools with an ICSEA of ≤ 1000 are eligible for sponsorship via the Fogarty Foundation, including free school and team registration for the 2024 Tournament. Please contact the WA Director at [email protected] for more information!
Workshops
Tournament of Minds WA runs school workshops for students, including:
- What is TOM? for students
- Simply Spontaneous
- Decoding the Challenge
- Discipline-specific workshops
- Practice challenges and judging
For more details, please contact our Professional Learning Coordinator at
[email protected]
Tournament Timeline
Term 3:
Challenges released:
- The challenges will get released six weeks before the Regional Tournament. For Perth Metro teams, this means you will get your challenges on 22nd July! (Term 3, Week 2)
Team nominations
- Each team will need to nominate which of the four disciplines they will be compete in (Language Literature, Social Sciences, STEM or The ARTS). Teams can nominate their disciplines once the challenges are released.
Nominations close on the 2nd of August. Facilitators, please ensure that you have updated the TOM portal with your teams details by this date, including which discipline they chose.
Regional Tournament Presentations - 22-31 August
Our Regional Tournament is where teams get to present the solution to the long-term challenge they have been working on for six weeks, as well as complete their Spontaneous Challenge.
Location | Competition Date |
Wheatbelt (Kulin) | Thu 22 August |
Esperance | Fri 23 August |
Bunbury | Sat 24 August |
Margaret River | Sun 25 August |
Kalgoorlie | Sun 25 August |
Broome | Sun 25 August |
Albany | Mon 26 August |
Merredin | Mon 26 August |
Katanning | Tue 27 August |
Geraldton | Tue 27 August |
Perth | Sat 31 August |
We are always looking at opportunities to assist regional and remote schools to be involved in our competition, including visiting additional locations or through online presentations. If you are not sure about participating due to geographical barriers, please contact us!
WA State Final - 14 September at ECU Joondalup
- The State Final is the following round of our competition. Teams will qualify for the State Final based on performance at the Regional Tournament. Qualifying teams from across the state will be informed of their placement at the end of the Regional Tournament (31st August). The State Finals are used to select our competing teams for TIF.
Term 4:
Congratulations to all the participants who entered the 2023 Competition, and qualified for the TOM International Final (TIF) in Melbourne.
The WA Committee are super proud of the achievement of our schools at TIF.
W.A. Teams receiving awards are:
Primary
Esperance Primary: Social Sciences Winners
Poynter Primary: STEM Winners
Esperance Primary: Language Literature Honours
Secondary
Sacred Heart College: STEM Honours
Sacred Heart College: The ARTS Honours
Full results can be located at:tom.edu.au/tournament/results