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Vermont Secondary College

DID YOU KNOW?

72% of the world's supply is from phytoplankton and other photosynthesising algae and only 28% is made from the trees!

SCIENCE WEEK DESIGN COMPETITION

Our science week design competition closed at the end of term with presentations on the 13th of September.

We had three amazing presenters on the day and a couple of remote entries that were unable to present due to other commitments.

Congratulations to our presenters, Anay C, Prisha J and Sumeyye K. It was a very close competition with some excellent ideas. First place went to Anay with his programming skills.

External Science Competitions Term 3

We had four external Science competitions running in term 3. The first was the junior science Olympiad, which is a staged science enrichment program for highly motivated students in Australian high schools in Years 7 to 10.

We had thirteen students from 7-10 take part and achieve 6 participations, 3 credits, 4 Distinctions and 1 High distinctions. The distinctions and high distinction students are:

Anay C (year 8) – Distinction

Isaiah P (year 7) – Distinction

Kristy W (year 8) – Distinction

Gajaananan T (Year 10) – Distinction

Risley C (year 8) – High distinction

Distinctions put students in the top 11% of the state and High distinctions put students in the top 1%

The ICAS science competition also ran with 93 students from 7-10 participating and achieved 41 Participations, 12 Merits, 23 Credits, 17 Distinctions, and 1 High Distinction

The students that achieved Distinctions and High Distinction in ICAS are:

Year 7

Jeffrey C – Distinction

Anay C – Distinction

Raghav P – Distinction

Isaiah P – Distinction

Naomi R – Distinction

Ayaan S – Distinction

Year 8

Rilsey C – Distinction

Akhil V – Distinction

Sherlock H - Distinction