Top 10 finalists chosen for Western Sydney Airport Minecraft Competition
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Bonnyrigg Heights Primary School; Christadelphian Heritage College (Kemps Creek); Crawford Public School (Doonside); Ingleburn Public School; Liverpool Public School; Mary Immaculate Catholic Primary (Bossley Park); Merrylands East Public School, McCallums Hill Public School, Parramatta North Public School; and Sadleir Public School have made it through to the Top 10 of the 2019 Western Sydney Airport Minecraft Competition.
The schools competed with thousands of primary students from schools across Western Sydney by taking up the challenge to design Western Sydney Airport in the wildly popular digital building blocks game, Minecraft.
Western Sydney Airport CEO Graham Millett said the competition is an exciting learning opportunity that challenges young minds to solve real-world problems.
“It’s encouraging to think that the next generation of engineers and architects are applying themselves to come up with their vision for the Airport,” he said.
The competition, which features prizes of $40,000 to go toward STEM learning resources in winning schools, was organised by Liverpool City Council. Liverpool Mayor Wendy Waller said the quality of the entries was very high and that the Top 10 finalists should be proud of getting this far.
“What we’ve learned from this bigger competition is that there are students across Western Sydney with big ideas and big futures and it is great to see them taking charge and shaping tomorrow,” she said.
“I was blown away by the creativity and useability of these designs. It will be a tough job for the judges to choose a winner.”
Students from the Top 10 schools will have the opportunity to convince an expert panel why they should win this year’s competition at the Final Pitch and Judging Day on Friday, 9 August at the state-of-the-art Liverpool campus of Western Sydney University.
On the panel will be Western Sydney Airport CEO Graham Millett, NSW Department of Education Secretary Mark Scott, Western Sydney University Director Master of Teaching (Primary) Dr Katrina Barker and Atlassian Head of People Operations Andi Breslin.
The competition is being sponsored by Western Sydney Airport and was co-designed by the NSW Department of Education to align with the Stage 3 curriculum.