Senior School

Geotech Award

Last Monday Kayla Horton of Year 11 Geography, won a Geotech award at the Annual Geography Teachers Conference in the city, with James Merlino, the Deputy Premier giving her the award.

Geotech involved Kayla going into the city where she got to discover a full range of spatial technology and real-life applications in areas such as environment, emergency management, the outdoors, GIS, GPS and drones.

She spent three days of geospatial activities where she got to experience :

• site visits to leading spatial industry companies and government organisations, such as Lonely Planet, State Control Centre, Emergency Management Victoria.
• information sessions from leaders in the spatial field
• instruction from RMIT Geospatial lecturers
• hands-on experience with sophisticated GIS software
• applications of spatial technology in the field using GPS devices

Benn Jamieson

Term 3 News

Term 3 has been a successful term for Year 11, especially just recently at the Divison Athletics competition with Samantha Olsen taking out the Age Group Champion for 17 year olds. Many Year 11s have started preparing for a Year 12 subject they are doing, with exams about 2 months away. The holidays are about to be upon us and hopefully there will be much sunshine we can all enjoy as we have our study break.

-Ben Holland & Ciara Lumsden (Yr 11)

The end of a total of 13 years of schooling is coming to a close soon. With exams heading our way at 2 times the speed of light and everyone having 2839 SACs on the last week of term, students more than ever are feeling the pressure of this important time in their lives. The only thing that is motivating us is the idea of going to Schoolies to celebrate the end and closure of a special time in our lives. Exams and studying is not the only thing in our agendas, Yr 12 is a time of reflection and preparation for the future therefore students are now selecting their course preferences for universities next year although not everyone is planning on continuing to university, some are planning to travel in their gap year and others are joining the workforce straight after school. Regardless of where everyone ends up going, they’ll sure know that it’ll be better than the end of year exams!

-Didier Iriarte Fattel