Of the school's 32 entered students in the annual Knox Grammar Da Vinci Tournament of the Minds contest, 16 progressed from the regional to the state levels.

Over three days, the students competed in a range of intelligence tests against around 5000 others across the state.

Although the entire competition is run virtually, the local teams did face a distinct disadvantage.

While some schools had the capacity to work completely digitally, a lack of technological options at Wagga High meant the students had to implement a hybrid model of task completion.

"We had to print out our work and then quickly send it back before the deadline," said year 7 student Linley Elliott who was the team's chief engineer.

"We just didn't have an advantage."

Having to upload the answers meant that they also had to finish the tasks ahead of time to ensure they would have enough time to send them back.

"Otherwise, they'd be disqualified," said teacher Melanie Lucas.

"The students had to work around the table, moving around the work. [On each team] there were eight students completing five papers at the same time, a lot of time management was involved."

The results will not be known until the end of next week, but the students are confident they achieved well in each task.

Though, the final task - a general knowledge quiz on the life of Leonardo Da Vinci - may have stumped them a little.

"We didn't study a lot of that," said year 8 student Baden Blanch.

At least, the questions surrounding the history of Italy were familiar to the team's resident cartographer, year 10 student Jasper Scarrone.

"My family comes from there, they immigrated to Australia in the 1920s," the 15-year-old said.

"So we have knowledge that's been handed down over the years."

Even if the teams do not progress to the national level of the competition, they will have won some bragging rights having been the school's first team to progress to the state level.

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