On 23, 24 and 25 May, students from Years 6-11 in the Academy participated in the da Vinci Decathlon. Our Year 9 team came first in the State overall and will be competing at the National Championships later this year. Our Year 11 team came third overall in the State as well.

All our students did exceptionally well, and we received some outstanding results overall:

YEAR 8:

• 1^st place in State – English and Code Breaking

YEAR 9:

• 1^st place In State overall
• 1^st place in State: Mathematics, Code Breaking,
• 2^nd place in State: Creative Producers, Ideation
• 3^rd place in State: Legacy

YEAR 10:

• 2^nd place in State: Mathematics and Creative Producers
• 3^rd place in State: Code Breaking

YEAR 11:

• 3^rd place in State Overall
• 1^st place in State: Ideation
• 2^nd place in State: Cartography and Science
• 3^rd place in State: Engineering and Creative Producers

YEAR 6 TEAM:

Benjamin Clark, Yufei Wu, Eric Zhang, Caiden Crowe, Meg Payling, Indiana Reneke and Lucas Wang

YEAR 7 TEAM:

Jinyu Yan, Pasanya Abeyratne, Peter Zhu, Ivy Hamilton, Emily Yang, Peiwen Liang, Charlotte Beattie and Annabelle McQueen

YEAR 8 TEAM:

Mimi Shen, Aiden Zhang, Teresa Cheung, Olivia Segui, Phoebe Corin, Rose D’Alisa, Chloe Wang and Caitlyn Howe

YEAR 9 TEAM:

Mitchell Chen, Cindy Chen, Byron McNiven, Chloe Ourari, Miki Qiao, Dinuki Indiketiya, Finlay Canavan and Kenta Yamaguchi

YEAR 10 TEAM:

Matilda Grant, Sam Cathcart, Tiantian Shen, April Chen, Riley Grimmer, Ellie Sinclair, Molly Read and Rahma Iqbal

YEAR 11 TEAM:

Felix Chen, Jacob Lahood, Derek Luo, Timothy Yau, Zinan Mustafiz, Cherry Ge, Sahas Gunaratne and Alexander Readshaw

Belinda Pilgrim | Head of Academic Academy