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Queen Margaret College students show their skills at EPRo8 Challenge

16/11/2017

Tech whizzes at Queen Margaret College have made the semi-finals of the EPro8 Challenge being held on Tuesday 21 November.

The EPro8 Challenge is a competition; an engineering and problem solving race. Teams between Year 5 and 10 can enter and compete against others in the same Year Group.

This year Queen Margaret College hosted the initial competition between primary and intermediate schools in the Wellington region.

Marsden students win TechHub CREST Challenge for second year running

16/11/2017

Samuel Marsden Collegiate School Year 10 Digital Technology students Leila Barber, Linda Zhang and Kellen Zeng have won the 2017 TechHub CREST Challenge (Wellington region). The challenge was for students to come up with a brief to address a need within their school and then research, design and develop a prototype digital application in response to the brief. The girls developed an App that students can use to follow their House points, find out about school events where they could show support and add to their House points by attending.

ACG Strathallan: Rower picked as rising star

16/11/2017

ACG Strathallan rower Scarlet Billingham has been named Rising Female Star of the Year at the Counties Manukau Sport and Papakura Local Board Sports Awards.

Scarlet was selected by a panel of judges that included former All Black and local gym owner Keven Mealamu.

“I was shocked when they called my name,” she said. “I couldn’t believe what I had just achieved, that I had just hit the next level in my rowing achievements. I hope for many more memories like that to come. ”

ACG Parnell College: Success for drama students at Showdown

16/11/2017

ACG Parnell College took out a raft of prizes at the 10th annual Showdown Awards – the Auckland secondary school production competition held at SkyCity.

Students and parents attended the awards evening to celebrate the school’s two productions of 2017 – ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’ and ‘Oliver’.

The senior drama production was a clear winner, picking up three awards:

New Strathmore Bike Park a Scots College student initiative

10/11/2017

“Think outside, no box required” was the slogan behind the Year 6 project that has become a reality for Scots College students Orlando Pender, Kobe Fulljames and Noah Stephens.