Grayston, Germiston take big bite of Apple contest

Grayston Preparatory School and Germiston High came away multiple winners in the Apple Education Competition 2012.

The Apple in Education Competition 2012 drew more than 1000 entries from over 70 schools across more than 30 subjects. At the recent awards evening, winners were announced in seven categories, with 12 winners across the categories.

The biggest winner, Grayston Preparatory School, won in both a Curriculum category and for Best Teacher, while Germiston High School won two awards for its iSchoolAfrica Youth Press Team.

Learners and teachers won iPod nano’s, iPod Touches, iPads, Macbook Airs and MacBook Pros.

The following is the full list of winners:

Curriculum Projects

Grade 1-4

Grayston Preparatory School

Grade 5-7

Dainfern College

Grade 8-9

Kingsmead College

Grade 10-12

Parklands College

Artistic Excellence

Junior

Finkelstein TLC

Senior

St Mary’s School

Design-an-app

Junior

Pitlochry School

Senior

Sunward Park High School

iBooks Author

Crawford Fourways: Teacher: Deidre Fabel

iSchoolAfrica Youth Press Team

Best Video: Germiston High School

Best Team: Germiston High School

iTeacher 2012

Grayston Preparatory

Teacher: Bronwyn Desjardins

Brief videos of the winning entries can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/user/AppleInEducation

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