Student Achievement

Karinya House Bridge Benefit Dinner - A Huge Success!

This event is in its fourth year running and was initiated three years ago by two staff members, Trish Young and Tookie Capezio, as a way of broadening the experiences of Senior Hospitality students. It also gives the students with the opportunity of providing a service to those members in our community who need our help most.  On behalf of all the Merici College community, we commend Trish, Tookie and the students on their wonderful endeavours, and congratulate them for the first-class, degustation menu that they prepared on Saturday night.

Merici successful applicant for PROJECT ROCKIT School Grants Program

We are very excited to be a successful applicant for the PROJECT ROCKIT Online School Grants Program. PROJECT ROCKIT is Australia’s youth-drive movement against bullying, hate and prejudice. For the last 12 years,  they have been sending passionate young people into schools to create real talk and help young people stand up instead of standing by. ​PROJECT ROCKIT now works with over 250,000 young people, sit on the Government's eSafety committee and are the go-to-youth cybersafety partner of Facebook, Instagram,Twitter and Google.

ACT Schools Mountain Bike Championships

A brave call was made not to cancel the Mountain Bike Championship this year! So Charlotte Farrell, Tara Maguire, Fey Etherington, Jess Kalthofen, Hannah Iles and Laura de Puit braved some shocking weather to ride with nearly 700 other high schoolers at Stromlo.  The race was shortened to 2 hours as riders were shaking with cold being soaked and splattered from head to toe with mud.  But fun was had by all and the girls placed a very impressive 4th and 6th in their all female category, competing against ACT and NSW teams.  Well done girls!

What’s Happening in Engineering @ Merici

In Week 3 of this term, the Year 10 Engineering class performed their first rocket launch as part of this semester’s unit: “It Is Rocket Science.”  With the assistance of members of the Canberra Rocketry Group (Nev Blyth, Dr Tony Buckmaster, John Davies and Mark Bottomley) and kind permission from Dr Buckmaster to use his Yass property, the engineers launched 14 model rockets. Each rocket carried a payload of a small altimeter that allowed us to collect flight telemetry. 

return to top