Achievements & Results
Season of Excellence | Media Studies
Top Designs 2020
Congratulations to Nicolai Bertoli whose stunning photographic installation, created as part of his Year 12 Media studies, has been selected to feature in the 2020 Season of Excellence - Top Designs exhibit at Melbourne Museum next year!
Nicolai’s installation is one of only 7 VCE Media photography works to be selected for exhibition, which is an impressive achievement considering that over 350 works were submitted for consideration and of that 41 were shortlisted. Top Designs 2020 runs from 20 March to 12 July at Melbourne Museum.
FlickerUp
Congratulations to Shi Hui (Chantielle) T whose short film ‘Days of the Future Past’ has been selected to screen in the international short film festival Flickerfest at Bondi Beach next year. Flickerfest is the leading Australian competitive short film festival and receives thousands of entries every year from filmmakers across the globe. The festival is BAFTA recognised and Academy Award accredited.
Chantielle’s film will be featured in the FlickerUp competition, which is a specialised category for primary and secondary school entries. Prizes on offer include $500 cash and editing software valued at $3,400. Competition will be fierce so we wish Chantielle the best of luck! For more information about the festival, click here.
Ms. Helena Hall
VCE Media
House Sports | Results
State Table Tennis
On November 29th, the 6 intermediate table tennis boys set of to MSAC to compete in the State Table Tennis competition. The atmosphere in the stadium was humming with schools from all corners of Victoria ready to compete. The competition was fierce and I have never seen such high level table tennis. All the teams in our pool were very friendly and the boys were self directed in playing all the rubbers and keeping score. We lost our first match but won the next two pool matches to progress to the semi finals. In the semi final we met Melbourne High School our rivals. Unfortunately we lost this match but the students didn’t go down without a fight. A great achievement for all the boys, hopefully we see them make the state final again in 2020.
Chess Nationals
There are many clubs at Suzanne Cory High School, social, service, recreational, sports, etc. What they all have in common is the ability to bring together people with a shared interest, and help them upskill and excel in such areas.
The club of analytical thinkers, known as the Suzanne Cory High School Chess club, was created in 2014; since then, Chess has become an integral part of student experience at Suzanne Cory High School as a lunch time activity, as a club, as part of the co-curricular program, as part of the house program, and as a mental sport our students practice and compete against other schools across the country.
The Chess journey in 2019 is by far the best one yet. Our first ever female Chess team were the runner-ups for the Girls Secondary State Finals, our open secondary team achieved the 6th place in the state finals by Chess Victoria.
However, perhaps the highlight of the year was when our team qualified, and later competed, in the 2019 Chess Nationals by Chess Unlimited. The Chess Nationals was a two day event where 43 participating schools from Australia and New Zealand competed for the Nationals title. Our school had two teams, the middle school and the open secondary. Games took a more professional form as participants were required to note their moves and were given plenty of time between rounds to reflect and re-energise.
By the end of the second day, our middle school team achieved the 5th place in their division, and the open secondary achieved 9th. As always, our students attitude during the event was amazing, and the experience overall was nothing short than wonderful.
Mr. Isaac Ryan
Chess Coach
Debating: Middle Years Inter-house competition 2020
The middle years finals debating topic this year was ‘That artificial intelligence will harm and not benefit humankind.’ In the grand-final, Cottrell took the affirmative side and Rothwell took negative side. After a closely fought match, Rothwell came out the winner.
Many thanks to the 2020 debating captains, all the volunteer adjudicators and the participants who took part in the middle year’s debates.
Mr. Paul Byrne
Debating Coordinator