As well as the team competition, this year we also had our first individual competing. These students carry out the same process as the teams. Our first individual representative, Chris Egerton , from Nelson College won fourth place in the Senior Individual competition. The teams have two hours to prepare, including making props and costumes from a set list of junk items and rehearsing. Maidstone Intermediate also made it to the finals.
Scenario writers take part in a very challenging on-site competition.
They are put into a team with students they have never met before and are then given the one-page scenario which the Future Problem Solving teams are working on. As a group they then have to write a series of scenarios which link together based on the topic. This year they were required to take a variety of differing points of view of the scenario and develop characters to tell their story. Keri Monks of Kristin was in the team which received the award for first place. I would also like to acknowledge the Avondale College senior team who had a long-term impact on the programme by presenting the international organisers with the challenge of catering for a blind student.