10th Aquatic Workshop
The 10th aquatic workshop was an extremely well received and successful conference. With over 190 candidates in attendance, the day ran very smoothly.
The range of lectures that were offered and attended was very pleasing. Thank you to all the presenters from QLD and those that travelled interstate for expressing your wisdom an knowledge and this memorable event. I am sure all participants waked away with an array of valuable ideas and information.
A new venue this year, Brisbane Grammar received favourably with the majority of the delegates happy with the central location. This year we held the conference in conjunction with Royal Life Saving. For teachers travelling from Regional areas the combined weekend proved to be a vast success.
This year was the first year that Queensland state awards were presented to AUSTSWIM teachers, congratulations to the successful award winners listed below.
Teacher of Swimming and Water Safety - Patricia O’Donnell
Teacher of Infant and Preschool Aquatics - Jan Arndt
Teacher of People with a Disability - Brad Low
Swim School of the Year - Runaway Bay Sports Super Centre
Presenter of the Year - Marcelle Renforth-Frederick
Most Outstanding Contribution to AUSTSWIM - Gwen Welford
Thank you to all award winners and those who were nominated for your support. Thank you also to all staff and volunteers that helped in the preparation and delivery of the
conference. I would also like to thank our major sponsors Clark Rubber and Juice Plus for their support.
Course Presenters Workshop
A Course Presenters workshop was held on June 27th at the 10th Aquatic Workshop.
This was the first workshop that has been held for presenters in a while and it was a good chance to meet presenters and get feedback. The feedback from the workshop was excellent and we will look at running more workshops over the coming 12 months.
AUSTSWIM Queensland State Awards
Congratulations to the nominees and winners of the 2008 National AUSTSWIM Awards announced on Saturday 12 July at the National Aquatic Education Conference in Adelaide, South Australia.
The 2008 Queensland AUSTSWIM Award applications are now OPEN!!
AUSTSWIM Awards are awarded in the following categories:
Most Outstanding Contribution to AUSTSWIM
AUSTSWIM Swim School Award
AUSTSWIM Teacher of Swimming & Water Safety
AUSTSWIM Teacher of Infant & Preschool Aquatics
AUSTSWIM Teacher of People with a Disability
AUSTSWIM Presenter Award
The winner of each award category will be nominated to the AUSTSWIM National Awards in
2009.
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