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An Australian educational program challenging the world to develop problem solving skills

WA Announcement

The 2024 Regional Tournament has concluded. The following teams competed at the 2024 WA State Final in September at ECU Joondalup, with teams in bold representing WA at the TOM International Finals in Sydney.

DisciplinePrimarySecondary
Language Literature
  • Aubin Grove PS
  • Esperance PS 1
  • Mel Maria CPS 1
  • Our Lady of Grace 1
  • Sacred Heart 3
  • Sacred Heart 5
  • St Mary MacKillop
Social Sciences
  • Esperance PS 2
  • Mel Maria CPS 2
  • Poynter PS 2
  • Esperance SHS
  • Melville SHS 1
  • Melville SHS 3
  • Sacred Heart 1
STEM
  • Mary's Mount PS 2
  • Poynter PS 1
  • St Thomas' 2
  • Carine SHS 1
  • John XXIII College
  • Sacred Heart 8
The ARTS
  • Gingin DHS 2
  • St Hilda's 1
  • St Luke's 4
  • St Peter's
  • Penrhos College 5
  • Sacred Heart 6
  • St Norbert College 1


Congratulations to St Hilda's, winners of Honours at the TOM International Finals for Primary Arts!

Full results for the TOM International Finals can be located at: tom.edu.au/tournament/results



Registrations

School registrations for the 2025 competition are now open.

Teams of students can consist of students from one year group, or a mixture of year groups. There can be up to seven students per team.

WA schools with an ICSEA of ≤ 1000 are eligible for subsidised entry costs. Please contact the WA Director at [email protected] for more information.


Workshops

Tournament of Minds WA runs school workshops for students, including:
  • What is TOM? for students
  • Simply Spontaneous
  • Decoding the Challenge
  • Discipline-specific workshops
  • Practice challenges and judging
For more details, please contact our Professional Learning Coordinator at [email protected]

Tournament Timeline

Term 3:

  • Challenges released:
  • The challenges will get released six weeks before the Regional Tournament.
  • Regional WA Release Date: 21st July 2025 (Term 3, Week 1)
  • Perth Teams Release Date: 28th July 2025 (Term 3, Week 2)

  • Team nominations
  • Each team will need to nominate which of the four disciplines they will be compete in (Language Literature, Social Sciences, STEM or The ARTS). Teams can nominate their disciplines once the challenges are released.

    Team nominations open once the challenges release, and close on the 10th of August 2025. Facilitators, please ensure that you have updated the TOM portal with your teams details by this date, including which discipline they chose.

  • Regional Tournament Presentations

  • Our Regional Tournament is where teams get to present the solution to the long-term challenge they have been working on for six weeks, as well as complete their Spontaneous Challenge.

  • Dates for Regional WA venues will be added once they are confirmed.

  • LocationCompetition DateVenue
    EsperanceFri 29th August 2025Esperance Primary School
    BunburySat 30th August 2025ECU Bunbury
    PerthSat 6th September 2025ECU Joondalup

  • We are always looking at opportunities to assist regional and remote schools to be involved in our competition, including visiting additional locations or through online presentations. If you are not sure about participating due to geographical barriers, please contact us!


  • WA State Final - 20th September 2025 at ECU Joondalup
  • The State Final is the following round of our competition. Teams will qualify for the State Final based on performance at the Regional Tournament. Qualifying teams from across the state will be informed of their placement at the end of the Regional Tournament (6th September). The State Finals are used to select our competing teams for TIF.

Term 4:

  • TOM International Final - Sydney (1st November 2025)

  • The TOM International Final (TIF) is the ultimate stage of the TOM competition. Eight WA teams (four Primary and four Secondary) will travel over to Sydney to compete with teams from other Australian States/Territories and from overseas. The WA team will fly to Sydney together on Wednesday 29th October, and return on Sunday 2nd November 2025.



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Join our WA committee

We are always looking for judges, TOM officials and venue guides for our branch tournament. We are also looking for help behind the scenes to prepare for the WA tournament.

We would love to hear from you. To register your interest, please contact us via email.

[email protected]

 
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