Team 1
Creative Edge was definitely challenging, but it made our minds think outside of the box. Every time we felt we had failed at something, we worked together to find another way to do it. It also helped to improve our teamwork and collaboration, be confident in speaking in front of others, improve our problem solving skills all while stepping out of our comfort zone. We would like to give a big thanks to Mrs Murphy and Mrs Boyatzis. Mrs Murphy organised for us to participate in this challenge and spent her time helping us to prepare for it, and Mrs Boyatzis hosted this fun event. All in all, the Creative Edge Problem Solving Challenge was a great learning experience for everyone. Not only that, we all had so much fun!
By Emily D'A, Tatiana O, Claire D, Erika M, Harry B, Archie W, Jacob K
Team 2
The Creative Edge Problem solving Challenge is such an enjoyable, excellent and amazing opportunity, for kids to grow while working together as a team, using creative thinking strategies and a lot more.
We are a handful of the lucky kids who were given the opportunity to perform in the Creative Edge challenge and it was really enjoyable to be in. We learnt a lot more than we thought we would, such as having confidence in yourself, problem solving and working collaboratively as a team etc.
We thank Mrs Murphy so much for giving up her time and effort to help us throughout the preparations for the 6 week challenge and on the day. We really recommend any students to choose the Creative Edge Problem Solving Challenge if they have the opportunity to do so.
By Bianca M, Katrin L, Isabelle C, Lily N, Teua S and Yohan B
Team 3
Last Saturday St Bernadette’s 4 Enrichment teams all had to perform their 6 Week Challenge and the Impromptu Challenge in the Creative Edge Problem Solving Competition. In our Team 3 everyone was terrified when we all arrived at Curtin University. Our facilitator, Mrs Murphy helped us all to be more confident in ourselves and helped us be more positive about this whole challenge. She helped us so much by doing that and we are very thankful of her. We all eventually calmed down and when we had our Impromptu it was pretty tense inside. We had to go in this room which was the waiting room and wait until we were called in. Each team had a special room to go in and when our team was called out we were actually pretty confident with the Impromptu Challenge. When we got the challenge and had to discuss it with a team we all had really good but similar ideas. As someone once said, ‘Great minds think alike.’ We decided as a team to merge all of them together and that helped us come up with an awesome final idea. We had two people from our team to explain our final idea and they explained it wonderfully not leaving out a single detail. After the Impromptu we got to practise our 6 Week Challenge. Our team was especially nervous for this challenge but we just kept practising and practising until it was our turn to act out in front of the three judges, all of our parents and the other teams. The judges were really friendly so that helped our nerves. Eventually we wrapped up our play and we all got a loud applause. All the teams did exceptionally well and we are all really proud of ourselves for making a wonderful script and beautiful props and costumes in just 6 weeks!
By Rose H, Keira W, Lauren O'B, Ruby S, Ryan B, William E, Mitchell I
