World Scholar's Cup Gold Coast Regional Round - 1st Place Overall!
It is my pleasure to advise you that our Honours students did extremely well at this year’s WSC GC Regional Round.
A.B. Paterson College achieved 1st place overall!
We placed 1st in the Academic challenges, including:
- the Senior Division Competition,
- Championship Scholars (Scholars Challenge
- Team/Collaborative Writing
- Debating
Context - the WSC consists of 4 main academic events + social/entertainment/Korean-television-variety-show events:
- Scholar’s Challenge (multiple choice exam)
- Collaborative Writing
- Team Debate
- Scholar’s Bowl (team quiz conducted as per the genre of Korean-television-variety-shows i.e., historically, WSC was created in South Korea in 2007 by a university student, “Daniel Berdichevsky is the program's founder and Alpaca-in-Chief. In high school, he achieved the highest score in the history of the U.S. Academic Decathlon; he has been a professional nerd ever since”.
- Plus, the GC Round includes a *Scholar’s Show (talent show)
Results - please find below our students’ spectacular results:
- Overall Senior Division Champions (1st place): Miki Qiao, Louise Lee, Dinuki Indiketiya
- Snr Div 2nd: Matilda Grant, Tianyu Shen, Nevindu (Nevi) Dammanannagoda
- Snr Div 4th: Mitchell Chen, Xavier Zhang, Zach Wang
- Snr Div 5th: Ramandeep Sethi, Prabhav Sharma, Sanny Yet
- Snr Div 8th: Miles Britton, Jena Chai, April Chen
- Snr Div 9th: Zayyan Mohammed, Preston Williams, Sunny Liu
- Snr Div 11th: Tvishaa Sharma, Siena Bulmer, Aiden Zhang
- Championship Scholars Senior Div: 1st place: Ramandeep Sethi
- 2nd place: Matilda Grant
- 4th: Miki Qiao
- 5th: Dinuki Indiketiya
- Team Writing 1st place: Remy Villero, Grace Parma, Mimi Shen
- 2nd : Miles Britton, Jena Chai, April Chen
- 4th: Andrew Francesconi, Samuel Tong, Denzel O’Malley
- 6th: Ramandeep Sethi Prabhav, Sharma, Sanny Ye
- 7th: Miki Qiao, Louise Lee, Dinuki Indiketiya
- 8th: Tvishaa Sharma, Siena Bulmer, Aiden Zhang
- Fake Senior Scholars 1st place: Siena Bulmer
- Team Debate 1st place: Miki Qiao, Louise Lee, Dinuki Indiketiya
- 3rd place: Matilda Grant, Tianyu Shen, Nevindu (Nevi) Dammanannagoda
- 7th place: Hugo Hawke, John Tin, Toby Rayner
- 10th place: Mitchell Chen, Xavier Zhang, Zach Wang
- Asimov Award 4th place: Charlie Fryer
- 8th place: Samuel Longhurst
- Challenge Medals (5 gold medals, 1 silver): Matilda Grant (Sci, Art, Soc/HASS, Hist, Lit, SPC)
- (5 gold medals) Ramandeep Sethi (Art, Hist, Lit, Sci, SPC)
- (2 gold medals, 3 silver) Dinuki Indiketiya (Lit, Hist, Soc/HASS, Sci, SPC)
- (3 gold medals, 1 silver) Xavier Zhang (Sci, Art, Hist, Lit)
- (2 gold, 2 silver) Siena Bulmer (SPC, Lit, Hist, Sci)
- (1 gold, 3 silver) Miles Britton (SPC, Hist, Art, Soc/HASS)
- (3 gold) Tianyu Shen (Art, Hist, SPC)
- (4 silver) Zach Wang (SPC, Sci, Soc/HASS, Art)
- (2 gold, 1 silver) Nevi Dammannagoda (SPC, Soc/HASS, Hist)
- (2 gold, 1 silver) April Chen (SPC, Art, Sci)
- (2 silver, 1 gold) Sunny Liu (Lit, Soc/HASS, Sci)
- (2 silver, 1 gold) Miki Qiao (SPC, Soc/HASS, Hist)
- (2 gold) Mimi Shen (Lit, Sci)
- (1 gold, 1 silver) Louise Lee (Art, SPC)
- (1 gold, 1 silver) Sanny Ye (Soc, Art)
- (2 silver) Mitchell Chen (SPC, Sci)
- Jac Khor Award: Matilda Grant (*this is the award for the student who came 1st for the Scholar’s Challenge Multiple Choice Exam)
- Writing Champion 1st place: Siena Bulmer
- 2nd place: Zayyan Mohammed
- 9th: Remy Villero
- 11th place: Chloe Wang
- 12th: Andrew Francesconi
- 13th: Miles Britton
- 14th: Sanny Ye
- 16th: Samuel Tong
- 17th: Phoebe Corin
- 18th: Mimi Shen
- Team Bowl 2nd place: Miki Qiao, Louise Lee, Dinuki Indiketiya
- 3rd place: Mitchell Chen, Xavier Zhang, Zach Wang
- 4th: Ramandeep Sethi Prabhav, Sharma, Sanny Ye
- 5th: Matilda Grant, Tianyu Shen, Nevindu (Nevi) Dammanannagoda
- 6th: Zayyan Mohammed, Preston Williams, Sunny Liu
- 8th: Miles Britton, Jena Chai, April Chen
- Debate Champions 2nd place: Hugo Hawke
- 3rd: Louise Lee
- 5th: Ramandeep Sethi
- 8th: Miki Qiao
- 9th: Matilda Grant
- Snr Div Team Challenge 1st place: Matilda Grant, Tianyu Shen, Nevindu (Nevi) Dammanannagoda
- 4th: Miki Qiao, Louise Lee, Dinuki Indiketiya
- 5th: Mitchell Chen, Xavier Zhang, Zach Wang
- 6th: Miles Britton, Jena Chai, April Chen
- 7th: Ramandeep Sethi Prabhav, Sharma, Sanny Ye
CATHERINE RIDDLE | HEAD OF ACADEMIC ACADEMY