taking on the challenge

BSC students dominate the

​National History Challenge

Maddison Panozzo

Teacher - Humanities

This term the Year 10 SEAL Humanities class competed in the National History Challenge.  This competition "gives students a chance to be an historian, researching world history, examining Australia’s past, investigating their community or exploring their own roots."

Students conducted very thorough research and completed essays for the prompt “Making a better world?”  - visiting the State Library on two occasions to access the wide range and rare books and archives. Judging at the school level was extremely difficult with high quality entries from many of the students. This resulted in multiple readings and a panel of three teachers cross marking to determine the regional entries.

State finals were help on Sunday, September 17,  at Melbourne Boys Grammar. Students from across the state travelled to compete in the challenge and the competition was close.

Despite the pressure,  Iqbal Samuri, Michael Rasip, Zak Tsiouklas, Julian Gillies-Lekakis and Zaine Hamka-Clark were interviewed by a panel of three historians, all conducting excellent interviews.

The results were fantastic, with the BSC students dominating the competition - taking out as many top three positions possible in the state finals! These finalists entries will now be judged at a national level to determine the national and state winners.

Iqbal Samuri - is one of the top three state entries for the History of Sport

Zak Tsiouklas - is one of the top three state entries for the Year 10 category

Julian Gillies-Lekakis - is one of the top three state entries for the Year 10 category and National Archive category

Zaine Hamka-Clark - is one of the top three state entries for the Year 10 category

Michael Rasip - State finalist

Eric Seychell - Regional finalist