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.

Congratulations to Kasey Kelley who placed first in the ACT Snow Sports Schools Cup on Sunday 2 September and achieved the fastest time overall amongst both genders. Very impressive Kasey, we are very proud of you!

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!

The Merici College school community congratulates the following students who have been elected in the positions of College Captain and Vice Captain for 2019:

Malia Harrison - College Captain 2019

Olivia Miles - College Vice Captain 2019

We are thrilled to announce that as of January 2019, Merici will be home to a 93kW Solar Photovoltaic system!

We currently have a small 5kW Solar PV system on campus, which was installed back in 2010 under the National Solar Schools grant program. This system only offsets about 1% of our electricity usage. Our new system will offset approximately 20% of our energy usage.

The amount of CO2 emissions we’ll avoid is equivalent to taking 27 cars off the road per year!

Local solar panel heroes, Solar Hub will begin installation from December this year.

A Message from the Director - Jennifer Wright

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. 

We would like to thank all our students and staff for supporting the St Vincent De Paul “Fiver for a Farmer” NSW drought appeal on Tuesday  21 August with an overwhelming $2270 raised!! (https://www.vinnies.org.au/donate#!state=nsw&appeal=159

Fantastic result!