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Link to 2020 Global Scoreboard: https://my.immerseme.co/games-scoreboard-2020

PRESS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

9.00am (NZ time) Fri 3 Jul - NZ Herald article released! https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=12344548

Kerikeri students top the world in virtual language contest

Winners of the world's first international virtual reality language competition, Gillian Toala and Nimish Singh of Kerikeri High School, with ImmerseMe co-founder Scott Cardwell (wearing virtual reality goggles). Photo / Peter de Graaf

Two Kerikeri High School students have topped the world in the first international virtual reality language competition.

Gillian Toala, 16, didn't just beat 10,000 students in six countries to win the top prize in the ImmerseMe Games, she also won first place for Greek, a language she'd never studied before, and Spanish.

Another Year 12 student at Kerikeri High, Nimish Singh, also 16, placed second worldwide and took out the prize for Mandarin Chinese.

The competition was based around virtual reality language learning software developed by Kiwi company ImmerseMe. Read more…

6.30pm (NZ time) Thu 2 Jul - Some amazing photos of the prize-giving at St. Dominic’s College (Runner-up School Overall)

14.28pm (NZ time) Thu 25 June - Quote from Heike Barker at Cheltenham Primary School (VIC, Australia) ‘The ImmerseMe Games were a fantastic opportunity for my quieter students to shine in an environment where they didn’t have to worry about anyone else around them. They were able to speak up in a comfortable environment, which enabled them to build confidence in expressing themselves in German. A number of my sometimes less engaged students connected with the technology aspect of the ImmerseMe Games and practiced their German almost as a side-effect of being enthralled in the technology, which was really powerful.’

9.41am (NZ time) Mon 8 June - Here’s the compilation video of Mini-Competition #4 entries showcasing their efforts during the ImmerseMe Games! Soooo cool to capture a slice of the action. This is a tinnnyyyyy sample of only 3 lessons completed out of more than 100,000+ during the ImmerseMe Games one-week competition!

In total we recorded 650,000 spoken/written recordings through ImmerseMe with students collecting almost 500,000 competition points (a point is awarded for every correct unique sentence per mode)

Thank you to students for lighting the flame for languages! 🔥 The ImmerseMe Games was a great success! 🏆

We challenged students to 'show off their ImmerseMe skills' and record themselves using ImmerseMe during the inaugural ImmerseMe Games (21-28 May 2020). This...

3.01pm (NZ time) Fri 5 June - Massive thanks to students who entered our Mini-Competition #4 to win a $20 iTunes voucher for submitting a video of them using ImmerseMe (we’re still editing the final clip) here are the voucher recipients:

Jasmin J, The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School
Jhanvi R, The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School
Semiha U, The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School
Mimi G, The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School

We have also chosen the 5x recipients of a $20 iTunes voucher for providing feedback about the ImmerseMe Games:

Quyen P, Stretton State College
Rata C, Villa Maria College
Zara M-L, Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart
Mimi G, The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School
Lynne R, Northam Primary School

3.43pm (NZ time) Wed 3 Jun - Drum roll please!….. Here are the official Honours Board and Random Prize Draw results (sorry for the delay!) We’re aiming to send teachers a PDF copy of certificates and organise vouchers for recipients by Sunday 14th June. We’ll also announce the recipients of our 2x other mini competitions ($20 iTunes voucher for feedback and screen recording) by 5pm NZ time this Friday 4th June. Stay tuned!

Top Schools Per Category

Awarded for the “greatest school score per category”

Category 1 (1 - 50 students) - Kerikeri High School, 36,907 points
Category 2 (51 - 100 students) - St. Dominic's College, 41,827 points
Category 3 (101 - 250 students) - Bunbury Baptist College, 28,220 points
Category 4 (251 - 500 students) - Hillcrest High School, 14,613 points
Category 5 (501 - 1000 students) - The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 122,693 points

Top 2 Schools Overall

Awarded for the “greatest school score overall”

ImmerseMe Games Top School Award (includes PDF certificate and name engraved on the Winner trophy) - The Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School, 122,693 points
ImmerseMe Games Runner up Award (includes PDF certificate and name engraved on the Runner up plate) - St. Dominic’s College, 41,827 points

Top Schools Per Language

Awarded for the “greatest school score per language” (includes pdf certificate)

ImmerseMe Games School Prize in English - The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 1,397 points
ImmerseMe Games School Prize in French - The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 43,679 points
ImmerseMe Games School Prize in German - The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 30,409 points
ImmerseMe Games School Prize in Greek - Kerikeri High School, 3,091 points
ImmerseMe Games School Prize in Indonesian - Bunbury Baptist College, 27,287 points
ImmerseMe Games School Prize in Italian - St. Dominic's College, 24,504 points
ImmerseMe Games School Prize in Japanese - The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 16,536 points
ImmerseMe Games School Prize in Mandarin - The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 4,000 points
ImmerseMe Games School Prize in Spanish - Kerikeri High School, 9,903 points

Top 2 Students Overall

Awarded for the “greatest individual score overall”

ImmerseMe Games Dux Award - Top Scholar (includes PDF certificate & $100 digital voucher*) - Gillian T, Kerikeri High School, 18,033 points
ImmerseMe Games Proxime Accessit Award - Runner up (includes PDF certificate & $50 digital voucher*) - Nimish S, Kerikeri High School, 16,500 points

Top Students Per Language

Awarded for the “greatest student score per language” (includes pdf certificate and $20 digital voucher*)

ImmerseMe Games Student Prize in English - Jennifer T, The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 1,104 points
ImmerseMe Games Student Prize in French - Semiha U, The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 4,408 points
ImmerseMe Games Student Prize in German - Semiha U, The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 4,224 points
ImmerseMe Games Student Prize in Greek - Gillian T, Kerikeri High School, 2,057 points
ImmerseMe Games Student Prize in Indonesian - Sophia Q, The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 3,148 points
ImmerseMe Games Student Prize in Italian - Reece W, St. Dominic's College, 4,804 points
ImmerseMe Games Student Prize in Japanese - Carmen L, The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 4,529 points
ImmerseMe Games Student Prize in Mandarin - Nimish S, Kerikeri High School, 1663 points
ImmerseMe Games Student Prize in Spanish - Gillian T, Kerikeri High School, 4471 points

RANDOM PRIZE DRAW

Random prize draw for one of ten $20 digital vouchers* (every 250 points counts towards an entry)

Carmen L, The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 4,603 points
Nimish S, Kerikeri High School, 16,500 points
Freya P, Northcote College, 543 points
Sienna A, Bethany College, 516 points
Priya P, Independent, 309 points
Jennifer T, The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 3,988 points
Mohini S, The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 1,029 points
Sanaaya R, The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 1,542 points
Medha K, The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, 7,855 points
Maddison S, Bunbury Baptist College, 325 points

*Digital vouchers include options like iTunes, Prezzy Card, Fortnite or as requested.

11.07am (NZ time) Fri 29 May - AMAZING EFFORT EVERYONE!!! The results are being finalised and will be released on Tuesday 2nd June (after Queen’s Birthday weekend in NZ) so please enjoy some time away from your computers. Thank you so much to all the schools and students who took part in our inaugural ImmerseMe Games. We have loved following your progress and have a whole lot of feedback to work on. You have all lit the flame for languages and should be really proud of your effort. Kia kaha and much respect to you all! - ImmerseMe team

10.32pm (NZ time) Thu 28 May - After a 2 hour extension the inaugural ImmerseMe Games are now OVER! Stay tuned while we finalise results.

5.59pm (NZ time) Thu 28 May - And we’re BACK! Sorry about the loss of 2 hours due to the database getting full (we thought we’d make it to the end without having to take it offline and add space but obviously jussssttttt managed to hit capacity with 4 hours remaining) so we’re going to add an additional 2 hours to the competition so it will now finish at 10pm (NZ time). Thanks for your patience and perseverance with our inaugural ImmerseMe Games everyone! We are incredibly thankful for your huge effort and can’t wait to continue developing ImmerseMe into the world’s best academic language tool.

4.36pm (NZ time) Thu 28 May - SORRY TEAM! We’re working on the “500 Internal Server Error” and will update you very soon…

8.00pm (NZ time) Wed 27 May - We’ve released one last mini-competition (#4) for a $20 iTunes voucher to 9 students (one for each language) who submit a video of themselves using ImmerseMe. Read the full rules and requirements here…

2.54pm (NZ time) Mon 25 May - We’re excited to announce the winners of our 3x Mini Competitions from last week!

Mini-competition #1 Winners (Design a Mascot, $20 iTunes voucher awarded to winner of each language)
- French: Amelia G, Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart
  - *Honourable Mentions: Rosie M, Megan D, Zoe C, Lucy M, Andie C, Emily P, Tilly P, Kate S, Indii E
- Chinese: Zara M-L, Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart
- Italian: Natalia R, Northam Primary School

Amelia G - 'Antoinette the French spaniel' (Copy)

Zara M-L (Copy)

Natalia R - 'Colowolf (1/2 Colosseum 1/2 Wolf)' (Copy)

Mini-competition #2 Winners (Global Citizenship Creative Project, $20 iTunes voucher awarded to each winner)
- Joint Winner: Lea P, Frances C. Richmond Middle School
- Joint Winner: Lucy M, Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart
  - *Honourable Mentions: Natalia R, Tilly P

Lucy M, Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart

Mini-competition #3 Winners (Welcome to ImmerseMe Games video, $20 iTunes voucher awarded to winner of each language)
- French: Kristen C, Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart
- Chinese: Daisy C, Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart
- Italian: Airlei T, Trinity Lutheran College, VIC

10.26am (NZ time) Mon 25 May - Wowowow there’s an INTENSE battle in the Student Scoreboard (which is now available after logging in) between two students from Kerikeri High School in Northland, NZ: Nimish S (7714 points) and Gillian T (7437 points). 188 students have earned awards (105 Bronze, 52 Silver, 18 Gold and 13 Laureate) with 225,202 responses being recorded. The Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School continues their dominance over the weekend to establish a fairly comfortable lead with 62,085 points as the Top School Overall. What will happen to the rest of the field this week? A BIG WEEK lies ahead!

8.45pm (NZ time) Thu 28 May - 🏆 Here’s the Global Scoreboard link for the next 7 days! GO GO GOOOOOO!!!!!! https://my.immerseme.co/games-scoreboard-2020

key Information

Global Scoreboard: https://my.immerseme.co/games-scoreboard-2020
Registration process: Registration has now closed.
Equipment required: Laptop, tablet, mobile or VR headset!
Cost: Complimentary for all Australian schools, New Zealand schools and the first 50 schools from the rest of the world until 31st May 2020.
No. students: There is no cap on the number of students you can register to compete.
Dates: Thu 21 May to Thu 28 May 2020.
Exact start and finish time: 8pm 🇳🇿 | 6pm 🇦🇺 | 9am 🇬🇧 | 1am LA 🇺🇸.
FAQ: Visit our Help Centre for tips on Getting Started, using our Student Zone and Teacher Dashboard.
Data/Privacy: We take data protection seriously, please refer to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use which are in line with NZ/AUS/GDPR requirements.
Competition Poster: Click here to download.
3x Mini competitions: Click here to preview rules and rewards in the lead up.

Register Your Rivalry - CLOSED

Tapping into those well-entrenched school rivalries for student motivation, we’d love for teachers to throw down the gauntlet and challenge a rival school(s) to the highest average score! We’ll issue a Special Award to the winning school.

To Register Your Rivalry simply:

CC us into an email at hello@immerseme.co introducing the key contact from your rival school(s).
Tell us the title of your rivalry, e.g. Boys' vs Girls' College Challenge, be creative!
That's it! We'll get them set up and ready to rise to your challenge.

AFFILIATES

MLTAT

NZALT

Languages Roadshow

MLTANSW

WILTA

AGTV

NSW School of Languages

MLTAWA

NZAJLT

VATS

MGTAV

Are you part of a professional language teacher association in Australia or New Zealand? Please let them know about our ImmerseMe Games Affiliate programme.

It’s super simple, if your teacher association sends an email or posts on social media about the ImmerseMe Games to their network (wording provided) then we’ll put their logo on this competition page and every PDF certificate sent to schools! No cost for either party, just mutual language learning promotion 🙌

Please email hello@immerseme.co if you’re interested and our friendly ImmerseMe team will be there to help.

What do students do?

Students have one week to earn points by successfully responding to native speakers within contextual virtual reality-based 360° video recordings.
Examples include: ordering a baguette in Paris, buying a bento box in Tokyo or trying tapas at a Spanish restaurant.
ImmerseMe™ has been designed by a team of global language educators (see list) with the vision of creating ‘the world’s best academic language tool’.

Content is differentiated into three levels: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.
Learners are progressed through 4 scaffolded learning modes: Pronunciation > Typing > Translation > Immersion.
Students are tested on their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
Choose from over 3,000 interactive scenarios across 9 languages: Mandarin Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.
ImmerseMe™ will prepare students with the practical language skills they need to thrive as a global citizen.
Teachers can follow student progress from a Teacher Dashboard and assign lessons as tasks.
Certificates and prizes (see below) are available to every student who earns more than 250 points.

Learning a second language is tough, but virtual reality is here to help out. ImmerseMe transports high schoolers around the globe to practise on the ...

SCHOOL FEEDBACK

"This is a tool that you use to practise and improve on your fluency and accuracy in a real-life scenario, without feeling self-conscious in front of a native speaker. It enables us to get rid of classroom walls and connect with the outside world."

Chloé Briand, Head of Languages
Methodist Ladies’ College (Melbourne)

SCREENSHOTS

ImmerseMe login screen (Copy)

Students will need their academic email registered for ImmerseMe so the key contact (teacher) will be sent registration instructions after paying the admin fee.

Language selection page (Copy)

English landing page (Copy)

'Buy a loaf of bread' English lesson page (Copy)

Choose from 3x learning modes: Pronunciation > Translation > Immersion (English on ImmerseMe has Mandarin Chinese translations available)

Pronunciation mode (Copy)

Speak into the microphone ‘Hello, I would like a loaf of bread please’ and the woman will respond by asking what kind of bread you would like.

'What kind of bread would you like?' (Copy)

Choose from 3 options: farmhouse brown, white tin or tiger bread.

Follow the woman by dragging the 360 degree video while she picks up your order (Copy)

Success! (Copy)

Sentence variations are available by selecting the speech icon next to the model answer. In this case, it shows us that ImmerseMe will also accept ‘thank you’, ‘thanks’, ‘cheers’ and ‘thank you very much’.

PDF Certificates

Open Student Categories

PDF certificate will be awarded at the conclusion of the competition for the highest level achieved per student:

Bronze ‘Independence’ Award (250 points)
Silver ‘Global Citizen’ Award (500 points)
Gold ‘Fluency’ Award (1,000 points)
ImmerseMe ‘Laureate’ Award (2,000 points)

The word “laureate” refers to being signified by the laurel wreath. In Ancient Greece, laurel wreaths were awarded to victors as a sign of honour.

Innovative Educator Award

PDF certificate awarded to every teacher whose student(s) have achieved an open category award.

Top Schools Per Category