Annabelle Wong <\/strong>
Year 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The theme of the event was ‘light’. Each event tried to incorporate the theme, exploring ideas of light in literature, the sciences and throughout history.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While doing the English paper in this event I learnt about the continuous theme of light throughout literature from Shakespeare’s <\/em>Romeo and Juliet to modern literature with book like <\/em>All the light we cannot see.<\/em> At the da Vinci Decathlon I learnt how to deal with harder, more challenging problems outside of my normal classes, specifically the science questions that challenged my ethical thinking skills by requiring us to provide solutions and reasoning.<\/em> The Decathlon celebrates teamwork, the challenging tasks and tight deadlines require students to rely on each other. Feedback from the attendees shows that this message of teamwork has really sunk in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I also really enjoyed the feeling of positivity and teamwork as we worked on the tasks together \u2013 usually, I feel like when we are at school and doing tasks like that (especially assessment tasks) we are really competitive but at da Vinci we were all working together and communicating really effectively.<\/em> I learnt that everyone has different skills and it is important to work as a team to do the best you can.<\/em> We congratulate all teams who participated in the Decathlon. Of note are our Year 7 team who placed third for codebreaking. The Year 9 team placed sixth in creative producers, eighth in ideation and 15th in Maths. Our Year 10 team placed 11th in cartography, 11th in science and 12th in engineering. The year 11s\u00a0placed eighth in ideation, 10th in English and 16th in cartography.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Involvement in the da Vinci decathlon requires students in Years 8-11 to submit an application in Term 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Matthew Mountford<\/strong> The decathlon was an exciting two days for students from Years 7-11 on the Senior Campus. The atmosphere was electric and spirits were high despite the early morning and cool autumn weather. Teams of eight students set out for Knox Grammar in Wahroonga to match wits against as many as 150 teams from other Sydney […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[4],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-16730","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-secondary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/16730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=16730"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=16730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Jessica Caristo <\/strong>
Year 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eleanor Koh<\/strong>
Year 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hannah Chan <\/strong>
Year 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Annelies Notelaers<\/strong>
Year 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dean of Gifted Education<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2025\/06\/2025-DVD-codebreaking-with-certificates-Year-7-1.jpg\")
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