Achievements & Results

Edstart Achievement Award Aarav Patel

This award aims to recognise talented students from secondary schools all across Australia, as they demonstrate their skills in an area they are passionate about. This year’s award finalist is Aarav Patel, who embarked on a Technology and Innovation project to solve real world problems is presented with both an impressive award, and a $50 prize.

Ampol All Rounder Award Dinda Widya Murti

The Ampol All Rounder Award recognises a students outstanding contribution to our school and the wider community. It acknowledges the example a student sets for others through their qualities of leadership, commitment, and achievement across a range of activities.

This year’s Ampol All Rounder Award goes to Dinda, who has demonstrated exemplary leadership consistently over 3 years, has received academic excellence every year since year 9, has represented the school in interschool sport in multiple sports, and is an exceptional musician.

Deakin Engineering Year 11 Incentive Award Didula Weliwattage

This award is presented to students who demonstrate a consistent improvement or dedication in the areas of Maths Methods and Physics, with a specific emphasis on the sciences. It is aimed to inspire the recipient to further progress in these subjects and encourage them to enter the field of Engineering at Deakin.

Didula, as this year’s award recipient who along with the award will take home a $100 master card gift voucher.

2024 Tax, Super & You Competition Sahnan Saini, Rishit Miglani and Vishish Manik

This competition run by the Australian Government invited students to think outside of the box and create a unique project that highlighted their entry topic. The topic that the winning students responded to was: Explain Australia’s superannuation system and the impact on the community if we didn’t have one.

The Suzanne Cory competition winners; Sahnan, Rishit and Vishish, not only get to take home a prize pool of $1000 Mastercard gift cards, but they also earned $1000 worth of Mastercard gift cards for our school.

Cory Consulting

Over the past few terms, Sahnan Saini, Dinda Widya Murti, Rishit Miglani, and Vishesh Manik, have achieved remarkable success in business competitions, competing under the pseudonym “Cory Consulting”.

These students were International Finalists in the ANU Business Case Study Competition, showcasing exceptional understanding for accounting, corporate governance, and effective decision-making by planning and organising a multicultural festival for ANU.

These students also placed top 10 in the Asia Pacific region in Harvard University’s Crimson Global Case Competition, a prestigious international competition with 4000+ participants, where they were tasked with creating a strategic growth plan addressing internal issues, global market expansion, risk mitigation, and profitability with their innovative merger and acquisition.

Congratulations to these students for consistently demonstrating the school value of aspiration through their impressive achievements this year!

Community Spirit Award Tim Nguyen

The community Spirit Award aims to recognise a student who has had a positive impact on our school community, or the broader community.

The award recipient; Tim Nguyen, along with a $100 book voucher, and an invitation to afternoon tea in the Victorian Parliament is a student who this year has worked with others to lead SCHS groups aimed at community engagement.

Tim has played a key role in starting the Connect Club, where students work on outreach initiatives to help the local community, along with the Head in the Clouds organisation which amongst other causes organises students from multiple schools to create hygiene packages for homeless youth.

ADF Future Innovators Ashlee Grigg

This award recognises recipients’ science and mathematics abilities while highlighting the value the Navy, Army and Air Force place on STEM skills and STEM career opportunities within Defence.

Ashlee takes home both the prestige of being an ADF future Innovator, along with $250 prize money.

ADF Long Tan Award Leroy Chung

The ADF Long Tan Youth Leadership and Teamwork Award recognises students who demonstrate leadership and teamwork within both the school and the broader local community. At the same time, it recognises those who display strong values, such as doing one’s best, respect for others and “mateship”, characteristics that are integral to Australian society.

The ADF Long Tan awards are an important initiative by the Australian Government in conjunction with the Australian Defence Force designed to encourage senior students – tomorrow’s leaders – to actively participate in the life of their schools and local communities. Leroy Chung takes home both the honour of being awarded the ADF Long Tan Award, along with $250 prize money

Deakin University Young Influencer Award 2024 Ashmi Sarkar

This award is presented to a highly motivated student in recognition of their outstanding contribution to their school or local community, or a community in need in Australia or overseas, along with their willingness to help, coach, teach or care for others in a significant way.

Ashmi Sarkar has received a scholarship to Deakin University.

Julia Gillard Award Ishita Gupta

Ishita Gupta was awarded the Julia Gillard award for demonstrating a commitment to Civics and Citizenship and actively contributing to the School. The award was presented by Ms Joanne Ryan MP at a special morning tea held at the school on Tuesday.

Lalor Hero Award Shubhi Garg

Shubhi Garg received the 2024 Lalor Hero Award. This award is presented to volunteers who are the background of our diverse and vibrant community, and was presented to Shubhi in recognition of her contributions to Lalor Community and Suzanne Cory High School.

Bronze Medal Junior Mixed Pairs World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships

It was a history in the making for Australia when Alicia and her teammate won the bronze medal the Junior Mixed Pair division at the World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Hong Kong this week. It was Australia's first ever medal in the Junior division! Alicia and her team mate won against Iraq in Round 32, then beat Germany in Round 16, proceeding to win against Austria in the Quarter final. Unfortunately, they lost to the Philippines in the Semi-final who were just too strong.

Being able to call themselves World No. 3 Junior's Mixed Pair is an amazing achievement at such a prestigious event. Congratulations Alicia on this spectacular achievement.

Western Metropolitan Region Intermediate Boys Hockey Finals - SCHS WMR CHAMPIONS!

On October 31st, our intermediate hockey team had an incredible journey at the interschool regional hockey tournament! Despite a tough start with a narrow loss in our first game, we bounced back stronger than ever to win our next three matches. Our goal scorers, Gavin (1), Sachiv (2), Lachlan (1), Riley (1), and Jay (2), displayed exceptional skill and determination, with each goal-lifting team spirit and momentum. Thanks to our teamwork and resilience, we emerged victorious overall, securing the regional championship title and qualifying for the state tournament.

Sachiv U., C1

State Championships

After successfully winning Regionals we have made it to the final round, which is State, on November 11th at Footscray Hockey Club. The highest level competition for School Sport Victoria.

Ahead of us were three tough matches. It was a hot day but we knew if we worked together as a team we could win the whole thing. The first game of the day was against Chairo Christian S Drouin. As soon as the game started we immediately felt the intensity and the difference from the last round. Our opponents were high in skill. WIthout a doubt it was a tough match. Coming into half time it was still 0-0. We managed to keep up with them using various strategies in both our offence and defence. The second half was even more grueling with the heat kicking in and this tired us out very quickly. The match finished in a 0-3 loss. Over the break the team reflected on the things we could improve on and also the things which went well.

Before the start of the second game against the eventual winners Balwyn High School we refreshed ourselves with Ms. Fenby’s orange slices, put our sticks in and stepped onto the field with high hopes. First half was a big push and we managed to keep up with them despite their high skill level.

At half time we were tied once again at 0-0. Once again the heat caught up to us in the second half leading to a worsened performance overall. The second game ended up in a 0-2 loss for us. Unfortunately this crushed our hopes and dreams of winning the State Finals but we had one last game to prove ourselves.

Leading into the third and final game against Victory Lutheran C we wanted to come out with a positive for the day so the team members recuperated themselves for the last match. Despite our circumstances and the heat, we found motivation within ourselves and came out of the first half 1-0 up. We scored our first goal of the day and we knew we could beat this team. Starting the second half we scored a goal right off the bat, giving us a 2-0 lead. The mood was high and it was just a final push to keep the lead. Ending the game both teams scored a goal with the final score being 3-1.

Overall, it was a successful Hockey team this year and all the boys were very proud of each other for making it this far and just having the opportunity to play at this level. A very big thank you to Ms. Fenby for coaching us this year and another thank you to Mr. Luci for helping coach during State finals and also helping us during training sessions. To another great year next year!

Gavin L., R6

GKs: Megh, Moises

Full Backs: Samuel, Joel

Half Backs: Akein, Sadeepa, Yeemish

Centre Half: Mitch (captain)

Inners: Lachlan, Riley

Wings: Nandan, Sachiv, Gavin, Timmy

Centre Forwards: Jay, Gowtham

Coach: Ms Fenby