SCHOOL NEWS

BIG DATA CHALLENGE

Over the Term 1 holidays on Thursday 5 April, a group of Year 12 students had the amazing opportunity to participate in the Big Data Challenge at Monash University. The challenge was to use our analytical skills to solve a real world mathematical problem in one of the three main areas: Actuarial Science, Econometrics and Business Analytics.

We were separated into small groups to solve our problem, giving us a great opportunity to meet people from other schools interested in the same field. Each problem was challenging and interesting in its own way and I personally enjoyed preparing a solution with my team. At the end of the day, the teams that won in each category were announced and each team that won received a special hoodie from the Monash Business School (Gabi Basman, Ryan Basser and myself).

Not only were we provided with food for the whole day, we also got to learn a lot about the available opportunities for future students at the Monash Business School from hearing from past and current students studying at Monash. It was definitely an amazing opportunity provided to the Year 12 Accounting and Economic students. Thank you to Miss McKinlay who organised and attended the event with us. I would highly recommend the event to any future students undertaking a maths subject and a commerce subject.

Students that were selected to attend the day were: Ryan Basser, Gabi Basman, Lachlan Dubout, Johnson Duong, Phil Guo, Justin Lim, Merey Khabiyeva, Michael Veld, Harry Xu and Danila Zuo.

Merey Khabiyeva

Year 12 Student

IT’S YOUR CALL

On Sunday 29 April, myself and seven other students were lucky enough to umpire the Auskick kids at the MCG. With nerves and excitement all wound up in to one, umpiring in front of 70,000 fans was a daunting, but a very much enjoyable experience.

Over the past three weeks we have learnt about umpiring in the It’s Your Call elective which is part of the BYTES program in Year 9. The elective has been fun and we have definitely learnt a lot on the nature of umpiring and how it is a very stressful but rewarding role. Not only have we learnt life skills such as how to present ourselves with qualities such as confidence, respect and integrity but also umpiring skills such as the much acclaimed bounce and so much more.

Thank you to Mr Foot and Mr De Salvo for teaching the subject as well as the parents plus Mr Machin and Mr Cukierman who came along on the day.

Will McCartney

Year 9 Student