{"id":790,"date":"2025-11-05T09:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/?p=790"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:30:06","slug":"star-week-competition-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/star-week-competition-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"STAR Week Competition Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SETA are delighted to announce that Deb Voller from the Sydney Technician College in NSW and Wendy Thornton from Tranby College in W.A. are the winners of the STAR Week Competition.<\/p>\n<p>This is sponsored by MTA (Modern Teaching Aids) who kindly provide $1000 to each winner towards the cost of attending CONASTA 73 in Brisbane in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p>See their winning entries below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve run labs for sixteen years,<br \/>\nFixing gears and drying tears.<br \/>\nBunsen flames that dance and pop,<br \/>\nSparks fly hight &#8211; I never stop!<\/p>\n<p>Physics, chemistry, bio, earth&#8217;s a blast,<br \/>\nEach on cooler than the last.<br \/>\nLab techs sprint on speedy feet,<br \/>\nDodging spills and juggling heat!<\/p>\n<p>CONASTA 73 here I come,<br \/>\nBrisbane Sun learning lots of fun!<br \/>\nPick me quick, I&#8217;m ready to share,<br \/>\nScience, laughter and Queensland air!<\/p>\n<p><em>Deb Vollers<br \/>\nSydney Technical Hight Scool<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unperturbed<\/strong><br \/>\nThere was movement in the prep room,<br \/>\nfor the week had just begun,<br \/>\ntrolleys all lined up against the wall.<br \/>\nEager teachers waiting,<br \/>\nit was way too late to run,<br \/>\nI\u2019ve been through this many times before.<\/p>\n<p>CONASTA\u2019s \u2018round the corner,<br \/>\nit\u2019s Brisbane\u2019s turn to shine,<br \/>\nmany things to learn, see and do.<br \/>\nThe focus is on science,<br \/>\nand it\u2019ll be just fine,<br \/>\n\u2018cos you\u2019re never too old to learn a thing or two.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wendy Thornton<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tranby College<\/em><br \/>\n<em>W.A.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SETA are delighted to announce the winners of the STAR Week Competition. This is sponsored by MTA (Modern Teaching Aids) who kindly provide $1000 to each winner towards the cost of attending CONASTA 73 in Brisbane in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/seta26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}