The Central West Leadership Academy’s Year 6 and Year 9 da Vinci Decathlon team took first place in the Central West Region da Vinci Decathlon.
The Central West Leadership Academy’s Year 6 and Year 9 da Vinci Decathlon team took first place in the Central West Region da Vinci Decathlon held in Bathurst last week and will compete in the state finals in Term 3 at Knox Grammar School in Sydney. The Academy Year 10 team took third place.
The da Vinci Decathlon is a national academic competition designed to challenge and stimulate the minds of school students. Students compete in teams of eight across 10 disciplines: engineering, mathematics and chess, code breaking, art and poetry, science, English, ideation, creative producers, cartography and general knowledge.
The regional qualifying competition was held on 28-30 March between schools from all around the Central West including Kinross Wolaroi, Scots All Saints, Macquarie Anglican Grammar School and St John’s College among others.
Academy placings at the 2023 Central West Regional da Vinci Decathlon:
Year 6 Academy Placings: 1st overall
1st Ideation
1st Legacy
2nd Code Breaking
2nd Mathematics
3rd Cartography
Year 8 Academy Placings: 1st overall
1st Creative Producers
1st Engineering
1st English
1st Ideation
2nd Art and Poetry
3rd Code Breaking
Year 10 Academy Placings: 3rd Overall
1st Art and Poetry
2nd Engineering
2nd Ideation
2nd Code Breaking
3rd Mathematics
“The Academy loves to challenge our students to push themselves in a well rounded academic setting. The da Vinci Decathlon is a great way to showcase the broad range of high ability in our students and teaches them to work together as a team to harness each individual’s strengths.” Ms Mandi Randell, Principal of the Academy.
Year 10.
Since 2013, there have only been three high school teams west of the Blue Mountains to make the top 10 at the state level of da Vinci Decathlon. All three have been from the Academy, Year 7 2019, 8th in the state, Year 9 2021 2nd in the state and Year 8 2021 finished 10th in the state.
For more information about the da Vinci Decathlon, please see here.
