On Tuesday May 23rd, 16 students from Years 7 and 8 travelled to Knox College to represent the school at the da Vinci Decathlon. This a rigorous academic competition
where students compete in teams of eight across 10 disciplines; Engineering, Mathematics, Code Breaking, Art and Poetry, Science, English, Ideation, Creative Producers, Cartography and General Knowledge.
64 schools attended with a total of 1300 participants.
The selected boys were excellent ambassadors of the College. They worked hard throughout the day, demonstrating good teamwork and interest and ability across all areas. .
Tom Summers:
The Da Vinci Decathlon was very, very mentally exhausting as we had to sit several tests. It was good though, as we got to meet many new people our age from different schools. The one thing that got to the team was time management, we had not very good time management and we missed out on a lot of questions. The good thing was that we came third in the general knowledge, which was led by Darcy Rogers, so he did a very good job. I think that is all and it was overall a good day at Knox.
Noah Klugsburger:
This was a day where I had to wake up extra early to represent my school with pride at the Da Vinci Decathlon. There were hundreds, if not thousands, of people there and we had thought, How do we compete with that? However, our team did very well and it was lots of fun and very enjoyable. We all had a great time and it was a great honour to represent our school and to be recognised for all our efforts.
