Competition

Northcross Intermediate students have won first and second place in the 2011 HSBC Eco-Code Climate Competition, and were presented their winners’ cheques at their school assembly on 4th November 2011, by Lesley Pope, Head of Marketing and Group Communications at HSBC.

Eco-Schools, an international environmental education programme has announced the launch of a colouring competition open to all Greater Auckland primary and intermediate school children. 

The HSBC Eco-Code Climate Competition aims to raise environmental awareness in schools, with all participants asked to create a poster under one of the outlined Climate Change topics: Litter, Water, Energy, Transport, Food or Biodiversity. 

An award-winning choir from Auckland’s Diocesan School for Girls has scooped two top prizes at an elite international competition in China.
The 40-member Virtuoso Voce choir from the all girls Anglican independent school has returned home with two magnificent glass trophies after winning a Silver Award and the International Friendship Award at the 10th China International Chorus Festival in July.

An innovative hay feeding bag and an automatic screen cleaner took a clean sweep at the Young Innovator Awards (YiA) in Tauranga late last month.
Jonathan Kent from Tauranga Boys’ College won the Senior Category with his Automatic Screen Cleaner concept and Savana Woodcock of Katikati College won the junior category with her Handy Hay Bag.

New Zealand’s team for the 2010 International Olympiad in Informatics has arrived in Canada for the 2010 competition. Team Members Logan Glasson (Burnside High School), Jamie McCloskey (Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti), Boris Pfahringer (University of Waikato)  and Tony Sun (Christ’s College) attended an intensive pre-departure training camp hosted by the University of Auckland prior to leaving.

The Department of Mathematics at The University of Auckland and NZ Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (NZIMA) are delighted to have assisted six secondary school students to the best ever result for NZ in the 51st International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) held in Kazakhstan last month.
The students, who competed as individuals in a field of almost 600 students from 98 countries, all came home with medals and their combined scores saw NZ ranked 29th overall.

With last year’s Standout Winner a finalist at the Panda Awards (“the green OSCARS”), the annual The Outlook for Someday film challenge is growing its profile and building international reputations for young NZ film-makers.
The Outlook for Someday is calling for entries to the 2010 film challenge.

Year seven and eight students from Waiau Pa School near Pukekohe have been announced as the winners of the third annual Barfoot & Thompson Magic of Reading Storybook Competition.

The National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee (NAEAC) are running an essay competition for school students.

The VEX World Robotics Championships were held in Dallas, Texas, in late April and the Kristin School team were awarded Tournament Champions of the High School competition.