WORLD SCHOLARS CUP

A Fantastic Achievement

On the 25th and 26th of May, myself, and my classmates Tasha Kay, Lindsey Dang, Sam Pringle, Giorgia Benini and Sophia Cleaver attended the 2018 World Scholars Cup.

The event was held at Genazzano and consisted of four different events including debating, essay writing, the Scholar’s Challenge and the Scholar’s Bowl. The debating was self-explanatory, but was really fun. It was the first time that I’ve enjoyed doing debating before, since the topics were really interesting. For the essays, we had to choose one of six topics to write about. In our two teams, all of us managed to each write on a different topic because they were all so different but suited us so well. The Scholar’s Challenge was a multiple-choice test on the topics that we had studied, although that was the hardest as we had to work alone. The Scholar’s Bowl was similar to the Scholar’s Challenge, except we were all together in the auditorium, and the questions were put up on the screen while we clicked the correct answer on our own “clickers”.

After this, there was a talent show where we watched our fellow scholars show off all the amazing skills they have, including Sam, who tap danced! We were all, of course, given a plush llama each, which was obviously the highlight of the day! At the end of the day, we were all awarded medals for our achievements in the different events. One of our teams won two trophies and ranked fourth overall! All of us also qualified to participate in the next round! 

It was a really fun and amazing day. Thank you to Ms Tucker and Ms Brahmin for organising it and being there.

Maddy Swan

Year 12 Student

Photo from left to right: Ms Tucker, Sophia Cleaver, Sam Pringle, Maddy Swan, Lindsey Dang, Giorgia Benini, Tasha Kay.