Science Awards

The International Competition and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) Science Competition assesses students’ skills in the key scientific areas of interpreting data, applying data and higher order skills, including investigating, reasoning and problem solving. Each year, students across Year 3-12 who are enrolled in a Science subject participate in this competition. 

For a student to be awarded a certificate of Distinction, they need to be ranked in the top 11% of their year level in the whole of Australia. This year, we have 19 students across Years 6-12 who achieved this outstanding ranking, with one of our Year 8 students only 1% short of being awarded a High Distinction (top 1%).

Year 6:  Jasmin Groves.

Year 7:  Kate Monroe, Cosette Winter, Lachlan Buchanan (top 5%) and Olivia Gartrell (top 3%).

Year 8:  Tom McLaughlin-Phillips, Ryan Price (top 6%) and Tayla Gorham (top 2%).

Year 9:  Georgia Harle, Joseph Higginson and Jackson Laverick.

Year 10:  Keaton Dines and Ethan Hall (top 4%).

Year 11:  Liam Dines, Olivia McCluskey, Sam Reidy and Shannon Van Schooten (top 4%).

Year 12:  Zane Gear and Jack Gretton (top 7%).

For a student to be awarded a certificate of Credit, they need to be ranked in the top 36% of their year level in the whole of Australia. This year, we had 69 students across Years 6-12 who achieved this ranking, with seven of these students less than 5% short of achieving a certificate of Distinction (top 11%).

Year 6:  Ruby Anderson (top 16%), Jack Connors (top 21%), Sophie Dahl (top 21%), James Box (top 27%), Erika Christensen (top 16%), Jacob Salvesen (top 16%), Zebadiah Gallagher (top 21%), Liam Russell (top 21%), and Noah Smith (top 12%).

Year 7:  Toby Easton (top 19%), Tom Grey (top 28%), Emily McKenzie (top 28%), Dafydd Thomas (top 12%), Noah Beasley (top 19%), Connor Dines (top 24%), Patrick Henderson, Nicola Hewitt (top 28%), Bethany McKenna (top 19%), Sebastian Moye (top 19%), Ella Ousley (top 12%), Eliza Woods (top 19%), Hayley Young (top 28%), Mitch Barwick, Ellie Dixon (top 24%), Yasmin Richters (top 28%), Holly Ubrihien (top 24%), Nadia-Rose Woods (top 19%), Jason Wulff (top 28%), Jayda Lowe (top 19%) and Alicia Woods.

Year 8:  Jasmine Foley, William Henry, Jared Solti, Patrick Swindles (top 13%), Georgia Barton (top 15%), Toby Brown (top 19%), Maya Prout, Sophie Empson (top 26%), Mack Turner, Tyrone Brooks (top 15%), Brooklyn Graves (top 19%) and Atlanta Hopewell.

Year 9:  Harrison Carde (top 29%), Jacob Cross-Pitcher (top 25%), Samuel Fleming (top 29%), Crystal Page, Jye Gallagher (top 29%), Stephanie Keenan and Rebekah Pierce.

Year 10:  Ted Butler, Jackson Brown, Connor Hirst, Lachlan Masson (top 20%), Liam Munro (top 20%), Olivia Papallo (top 20%), Khy Bolt (top 29%), Patrick Brennand (top 24%), Ryan Smart (top 29%), Charlotte Sorrell and Natasha Whiteley.

Year 11:  Imogen Joppich (top 16%), Drew Chaplin (top 29%), Sam Lines, Jackson Mikolic (top 20%), Ben Pierce (top 16%), Harry Stone (top 20%), and Georgia Woods.

Year 12:  Bailey Hockam (top 21%) and Hudson Sawyer.

We extend huge congratulations to all of these high achieving students and to all students who participated in the competition.

Miss Rebecca Ross, Head of Science