Hillary Challenge action

Students tackle the high ropes

Two Berwick Campus teams will vie for a place in the international Hillary Challenge event held in New Zealand next year.

The teams performed well in the qualifying event held at Eildon last weekend and will now take on the best teams from around Australia in the Hillary Challenge Final held on 7-9 October.

Fifteen Year 10 and 11 students competed against 11 other schools in the tough Outdoor Education competition, where students are scored for skill, speed, endurance and teamwork in a series of challenges.

Head of Outdoor Education Sam Maddock says students showed brilliant team-work and problem-solving skills.

The first day kicked off with a multi-sport race, including white-water rafting on the Goulburn River, an eight km mountain bike ride and a 3.8km run. The afternoon events were three, one-hour challenges; a ‘Tyrolean traverse’ and a ‘Where’s Wally’ challenge where competitors had to find a lost ‘bushwalker’ and transport him to safety and a problem solving exercise.

Mr Maddock says our students excelled in the problem-solving challenge, working out how they could get from one point to another – without touching the ground – by using their shoelaces to tie the squares of carpet provided to their feet.

Students also performed well on the high ropes course, where they had to drop balls into targets.

Day 2 was spent competing in a three-hour rogaining (cross country navigation) exercise and again our students showed their skills and endurance. Overall, the two Beaconhills teams placed third and sixth.

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