2010 Exercise Your Mind Challenge Competition

Have you ever wondered who invents all the toys and games? Well Tasmanian Students are being offered the opportunity to design an original brain teaser and have it published and sold worldwide.

Once again, Inquizitive has teamed up with Australian games producer The Dr Wood Challenge Centre to bring the Tasmanian Students the unique “Exercise Your Mind Challenge” Competition.

During the 2008 Australian Toy Fair, The Dr Wood Challenge Centre released the first 9 volumes of their new line of fun, mind-bending puzzles, known as the Mind Challenge Classics Series. 110 Volumes are to be released over the next decade.

The Dr Wood Challenge Centre is an exciting Australian company engaged in the development, publishing and global marketing and distribution of mind challenging puzzles and games.  Some of their global best sellers include:  the award winning Kaleidoscope Classic and “KogWorkS”.

Inquizitive is an independent educational toys, games, puzzles and gift shop based in Kings Meadows, Launceston.  Both organizations are dedicated to bringing fresh, stimulating and mind challenging opportunities to Tasmania!

The competition involves students in Grade 1 to 12 designing their own original brainteaser. Frank Dyksterhuis, the resident mathematician/physicist at The Dr Wood Challenge Centre will judge the most outstanding entry! The Dr Wood team will then publish the winning brainteaser as one of the 110 volumes of their Mind Challenge Classics Series.  What a great reward for the young minds of Tasmania!

2hallenge entries need to be submitted to Inquizitive by Monday 27th September 2010. The winning entry will be officially released worldwide at the 2011 Australian Toy Fair. In addition the winning individual/team will win a $100 Inquizitive Gift Voucher and the winning school will receive a $250 Inquizitive Gift Voucher.

For more details or for Inquizitive to come to your school to help get you started, contact an Inquizitive Team Member on (03) 6343 2104.

2009 Winner

The winner of the 2009 Exercise Your Mind Challenge Competition was submitted by four Grade 6 girls from Riverside Primary School.

Katelyn Victory, Elisabeth West, D’nykia Frost and Michelle Els entry was called the “Arrow Challenge” and was produced into the brilliant brain teaser called “Race Around the World”.

The game was officially launched at the 2010 Australian Toy Fair held in Melbourne in March. 

 

 

 

Educational Outcomes

  • provide the incentive of a real and rewarding challenge
  • develop creative problem solving techniques
  • promote, encourage and practice supportive learning and teamwork
  • develop and expand the use of analytical techniques
  • promote knowledge and appreciation of self and others
  • encourage experimentation, risk taking and persistence in problem solving
  • promote and reward creative and divergent thinking
  • stimulate a spirit of inquiry and a love of learning
  • develop enterprise
  • celebrate excellence.

Inquizitive stocks the volumes 1 to 10 of the Mind Challenge Classic Series which include:

Competition Details

  • Entries can be completed individually or in teams, with no more than 4 students per team
  • Entries are only to be completed by students studying in Tasmania in Grades 1 to 12
  • Individuals/teams need to complete an entry form to confirm participation in the competition
  • Challenge entries need to be submitted to Inquizitive by Monday 27th September 2010
  • All entries will be judged by the inventors at the Dr Wood Challenge Centre
  • Inquizitive will notify all participating schools before the Christmas holidays of the final results
  • The winning entry will be released at the 2011 Australian Toy Fair

For more information and to obtain an entry form, please contact:

Inquizitive

Shop 3b, 141 Hobart Rd

Kings Meadows

TAS, 7249

Tel: (03) 6343 2104

Fax: (03) 6301 9573

E-mail: brain@inquizitive.com.au

Web: www.inquizitive.com.au