2012 has been a successful year for the F1 in Schools competition at Newington, especially as this is the very first year the program has been introduced as a co-curricular activity. Following on from the successful Newington Competition last month the state final was recently held at the University of Technology, Sydney. The competition brought many teams from all across the state—from Canberra to country schools. As the competition ran over two days, there was time to reflect and brainstorm ideas of what each team would continue to do at the next stage of the competition at the beginning of the season.

At the end of the second day we received the results: Meaq winning their category with SpeedDemons in a close second. Combined they took the majority of awards. In Development Class Kinetic took home two awards and will return stronger than ever, next year. Finally, Zipper Effect was announced as  recipients of three awards including a wildcard to the National Final along with Meaq.

The National Final will be held in February 2013 at the Avalon Air Show in Melbourne. We thank our sponsors and the Newington Community, and look forward to representing  Newington College at the future competitions.

Alistair Bate (9/ME)
Zipper Effect Team