Science

The Big Science Competition

Returned to St Bede’s for 2019 with over 100 students from Years 7 to 10 competing. This year saw about half the students returning from competing in 2018, with the remainder new students to the competition in 2019. This shows Science at St Bede’s is thriving with new students always putting their hand up to be involved and showcase their talents in the subject.

The competition was held on Friday May 24 with the following students accepting the challenge to test their knowledge and skills in a variety of scientific areas, against other students from all around the country.

Year 7: Hamish Dorigo, Hugh Hopmans, Jamie Ritzert, James Loffel, Flynn Davies, Joshua Atkins, Ashtyn Jansen Van Rensburg, Joshua Howard, Charlie Rankins, Lucas Shaw, Thomas Davis, Jett Hornridge, Tom Lang, Seb Convey-Ryan, James Sims, Will Marken, Ethan Wainwright, Archie Lamb, Alex Hodgkins Will Ferwerda, Dante Quenette, Riley Kotow, Miles Madsen, Blake Nowlan, Tom Hill, Jordan Magri

Year 8: Richard Young, Luke Sullivan, Alex Smythe, Ben Newman-Morris, Asher Humphrey, Nathan Murphy, Thomas McNamara, Charlie Wilson, Elliot Ferriggi, Musashi Roche, Austen Warfe, Nicholas Johnstone, Sam Anthonisz, Matthew Billing, Sam Keating, Owen Mathews, Liam Parsons, Liam Bowles, William Martin, Herschel FitzRoy, Mitchell Brennan, Dylan Marani, Jeremy Cormick, Thomas Marani, Alex Lamb, Eliot Jurdukian

Year 9: Declan Gallagher, Jakob Anderson, Nathan Sullivan, Bishaal Gurung, Justin Meo, Adam Tenaglia, Jack Bretherton, Lachie Power, Elvis Galland, Joshua Stolp, Christian Carri, Luca Plottier, Leighton Miller, Jake Herft, Kaidin Smith, Dante Gonzalez, Mason Dwyer, Conan Richards, Ryan Stahlhut, Jack Davoren, Hunter Trumble, Romolo Esposito, Daniel Tanti, Luke Groves, Joseph McMahon, Finn Biermann, Luke Devitt

Year 10: Matthew Marani, Patrick Merchant, Ryan Shepherdson, Fraser Dun, Jack Marken, Aaron Nowlan, Jack L’huillier, Lyndon Bulman, Elijah McEvoy, Jordan Blogg, Jakob Hickey, Sam Valentine, Max Cronin, Jake Kovacs, James Hazon, Joel D’Rozario, Aidan Carroll, Matthew Hannan, Ted Hodgkins, Nathan Gatti, William Lomagno, Tom Murphy, Ben Uehara, Charlie Gillam, Harry Bolton, Charlie Lynch, Massimo Camillo

Congratulations to all of these students for participating and testing your scientific skills. 2018 saw three students receive the award of High Distinction which put their score in the top 5% of all students around the country who competed. There is a big chance that we will see more of these results in 2019 with some excellent students taking part. I look forward to sharing the results to you in a future newsletter in Term 3.

Brendan Fordham

LAL – Science