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Mikaela Bangalan, Meara Magsalay-Downie, Cyprus Causer and Alanna Santoso participated in the south and east NIWA science fair. From term two, they have been working on this project as part of the science club. Meara and Mikaela worked together while Cyprus and Alanna worked individually. They delivered their project last Thursday and were interviewed by the judges on Friday. The prize winners will be announced at Elim College on August 27.

Speech finalists, Alexandria Lazatin (Yr9) and Samara Anubhav (Yr10), competed in an intense speech competition on Tuesday night at Pakuranga College. Every school participating had extremely talented speakers, ranging from Year 9-11, making each round intriguing and entertaining.

Standout in the crowd with the latest must have shoe accessory. The team at Lace Platez have developed their product after much thought and market research. This unique to New Zealand item is the idea of Year 13 Business Studies students David Patlong (CEO), Renard Velayo (CFO), Aislinn Manuyag (Marketing Director), Zacharias Arudas (Operations Director), Shawna Stowers (Communications Director) and Aiden Wallis (Sales Director).

Last week the Junior Girls Football team finished their season with an exciting play-off for 3rd place against their neighbours, Mission Heights Junior College. On a windswept field at Mission Heights they started favourites against a team they had convincingly beaten earlier in the season.

Representatives from our medal winning music groups were presented with the awards at the KBB Festival closing ceremony on Saturday.

Flavoured iced coffee with proteins and vitamins. This is not just your normal iced coffee, it is iced coffee with a twist. This is the brainwave of Frostbite Iced Coffee, a company and product developed by Ashleigh Swainbank (CEO), Anthony Nelson (Production), Tradyn Rameka |(Finance), Martin Ibrahim (Finance), Carl Nicolas (Marketing) and Stephen Titus (Communications).

Over the July holidays, Sophia Bebelman, along with three other students represented New Zealand at the Biology Olympiad against 70 other countries or 280 other students. The New Zealand team came back with two silvers, a bronze medal won by Sophia, and a highly commended.