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Last Wednesday, thirty of our Year 8, 9 and 10 students competed in the Newcastle University Science and Engineering Challenge held at the Wulanda Recreation and Convention Centre. Students were split into teams of up to four and had to complete challenges as diverse as making a balsa plane that was tested for distance and accuracy, routing electricity to maximise efficiency in an imaginary city, creating a code to communicate with coloured light, and building a bridge that was tested to destruction. Our students represented the school admirably, and although we did not win overall, the bridge created by Year 10 group D’arci Bell, Sammie Considine, James Taylor and Brooke Hammond was equal best on the day, surviving all weights placed on it up to the “Bridge Buster.” A special thank you goes to Rotary for organising sponsors and coordinating volunteers and the sausage sizzle lunch. The sponsors donated money and/or personnel and the event, which promotes STEM and careers related to STEM, would not happen without their support.