{"id":1561,"date":"2026-09-03T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:46:07","slug":"stem-team-finishes-runners-up-at-newcastle-state-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/2026\/09\/03\/stem-team-finishes-runners-up-at-newcastle-state-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM Team Finishes Runners Up at Newcastle State Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newington\u2019s Science and Engineering Challenge team finished second overall at the NSW State Finals, hosted by the University of Newcastle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having qualified through regional heats earlier in the year, the squad competed against the top-ranking STEM schools in the state across a series of practical engineering and analytical tasks. Students worked in timed rotations on complex tasks including bridge stress-testing, electrical grid optimisation, and structural modeling. The team held high positions across every event category throughout the day, narrowly finishing as state runners-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newington\u2019s Science and Engineering Challenge team finished second overall at the NSW State Finals, hosted by the University of Newcastle. Having qualified through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}