And Now We Wait...

After 2 months of hard work, the Colgate Carton Race has officially finished, but we don't find out results until mid-July so we will wait eagerly to find out! The creative competition results will be posted on the Colgate NZ Facebook page once votes have been validated, but the main competition will take a bit longer I imagine as judges have to come out to the top schools to verify carton counts. The top schools will be notified next week so I shall let you know if I hear anything!

Thank you to all of you who gave us boxes or voted for our design, the support we have received has been unbelievable and we most definitely wouldn't be where we are without you! We finished with a grand total of 6049 boxes, which is an awesome effort! It's now in the hands of the toothpaste gods and we are now officially on school holiday for 2 weeks, whooo!

Only One Day To Go!

There's only one more day to go in the competition and we have just over 5,200 boxes in total! A pretty amazing effort, and something we couldn't have done without the help of the generous support of all our friends and schools who have helped us along the way! Thank you very much to everyone that has given us and sent us boxes in the last 2 months... it's been an awesome journey and a fantastic learning experience for all of us in Studio 21 :)

We're on the News!!

Colgate Colour Splash!

We have been learning to use an ipod application called Colour Splash!

We're going to be on TV!

Newsflash: We have the CTV (Canterbury Television) crew coming to interview our class on Monday morning!! Hopefully this will help us get a few more boxes and votes! Will post a video when we have it :)

Newspaper Article!

Our class effort with the Colgate competition made it to the local newspaper!

Colgate Box Mufti Day!

Today we had a Colgate box Mufti Day and managed to collect 347 boxes, plus some extra money that Mr George is going to use to buy toothpaste. Tyla and Nicole were the ones who came up with this great idea and it proved to be a really good one by taking our total number of boxes past the 3000 mark! We also received two other packages full of Colgate boxes; one from South Canterbury, and another one from New York, which was really exciting!

Tuesday... Another Good Day!

We had another good day today and managed to collect 257 boxes! Only 18 more days to go in the competition so keep up the good work and keep voting :)

Best Day So Far!!

Wow! What an amazing day today!! 529 boxes... the most from any single day so far!! A massive thank you goes out to PS / IS 266 in New York who sent us 395 of them! You guys rock!! We are also in first place in the creative competition so keep those facebook votes rolling in :)

Our Design

Hello everyone!

My class in Canterbury, New Zealand has worked incredibly hard to produce an entry for a competition we are competing in at the moment. The criteria for the competition was to produce something creative using Colgate toothpaste cartons that relates to the 2012 theme of sports/athletics. We came up with an original design called the 'Triple Action Triathlon' and, apart from the black background, it's made completely from empty Colgate boxes. We created and developed concepts, and played around with different colour schemes and images before deciding on our final design. After settling on our final design we took photos of individual boxes in front of a green screen, removed the backgrounds, then pasted, rotated, and resized them digitally to make up our final design. This took a long time and lots of patience, but we are really happy with the final result!

We were lucky enough to have our design selected for the top 10 in the competition and now it just comes down to facebook votes. It only takes a minute to vote by following the link below, logging into facebook, and voting for the design by Kaiapoi Borough School. If you like the look of our entry, we would really appreciate you taking the time to place a vote and pass the link on to as many people as possible. If we win, our school will receive $5,000 worth of brand new P.E gear, which we desperately need to help our school rebuild from the earthquakes in our area over the last one and a half years.

As part of this competition we have been looking at the power of communication, so with your help we can produce a real life example of the amazing power of the internet and how it can be used as a very effective communication device! We really hope that if we get enough votes, we might be able to get Colgate to sponsor a nationwide triathlon event called the 'Triple Action Triathlon', which will encourage young children to become more active and live a healthy lifestyle. 

Thank you for your time, and if you would like any further information please feel free to join our edmodo group by visiting www.edmodo.com and using the group code apae5h :)

http://www.facebook.com/colgatenz/app_374675092562981?sk=app_374675092562981&app_data=school%7C2

Voting is Easy!

Colgate Carton Race - Kaiapoi Borough School

www.facebook.com

Your vote could win this school a share of $10,000 worth of sports gear vote wisely as you only have one vote so make it count!

Please vote for us!

Guess what?! Our creative design (attached) has been chosen as one of the top 10 entries in the creative competition! This means that, as of Monday 11th June, you all get a chance to vote once for your favourite entry. 

For all of you that have facebook, all you need to do is log in and 'like' the 'Colgate NZ' facebook page. From there you get one vote, and the winner gets $5,000 worth of P.E gear for their school, plus there are also 2nd and 3rd prizes. If you thought collecting Colgate boxes was a lot of work, then this is a piece of cake - will only take a minute :) 

You can really help us out by voting yourselves and getting as many people as you can to vote for our design. We can definitely win this, especially through word of mouth on edmodo and other networking websites! We will update you with more information when we get it. Voting closes on June 29th. We are really excited about this!! :D

Wednesday's Winter Wonderland

Here are a few shots of our school being transformed into a Winter Wonderland on Wednesday...

Snow Snaps!

Here's a couple of photos of the recent snow in Christchurch. Yesterday was a snow storm all day, but today we awoke to a chilly -5 degrees celcius frost! Lots of the snow on the ground turned into ice so it was very slippery, but very beautiful! School was closed for the second day in a row, so unfortunately we couldn't update our toothpaste box total any further.

More Snow!

 More snow again today so school was closed again. We're not going to let that stop us though!

After two days without school, lets hope Friday brings us more boxes!

SNOW!

The snow has turned our school into a Winter wonderland, and has meant we are closed for the day! So obviously, no toothpaste boxes today, but we look forward to a big haul next time we're at school :)

Hooray for the Long Weekend!

We had a fantastic day today and managed to collect more boxes than we have on any other day with 472!! The long weekend did us wonders! We've maintained our position at the top of the table and are looking forward to another good week! We have sent out a few emails to various different people around Christchurch and there are some exciting opportunities on the horizon. Watch this space!

Creative Entry!

These are our finished entries for the creative aspect of the competition. The whole lot, besides the backgrounds are made from Colgate boxes. We had to change our initial idea because of copyrights to do with the Olympics. We chose the one with the black background for our final entry, so If it gets selected in the top 10 you have to vote for us :)