High School: VEX Success

This week, four Senior VEX teams did incredibly well in the VEX Robotics Thai Nationals, pushing themselves to win a spot at the VEX World Championship in Dallas, Texas, to compete with 4000 teams from around the world. We also have a University Update as our students continue to receive fantastic university offers. Finally, the Embracing Differences Department invites us all to join them to celebrate Embracing Differences Week. Learn more below.

VEX Robotics Success

After the excitement, and successes, in hosting the VEX IQ Juniors Finals in February, this week our four Senior Teams travelled to NIST for the VEX Robotics Thai Nationals.

All four teams did incredibly well, pushing themselves to try to win a spot at the VEX World Championship in Dallas, Texas, to compete with 4000 teams from around the world.

• GWD (Nicky, Wen Wen and Pun (Year 13) and Matthew (Year 11) won the event and achieved the High School Excellence Award that secures them a spot at VEX Worlds in Dallas, Texas.
• The Matrix - Faye and Nitnem (Year 10) and Anish (Year 9) - won the Judges’ Award as they showed determination and resistance despite technical problems throughout the day.
• Face Off - Pun, Pun and Aarjav (Year 10) - and CNN - Nami, Carina and Nina (Year 10) - also got through to the Quarter Finals.

Mr Rob, Ms Holly, Mr Marc and Mr Sam, and everyone at St Andrews, are very proud of all of our teams’ successes.

Embracing Differences Week

Next week, our Embracing Differences Department invites us all to join them to celebrate Embracing Differences Week and diversity and inclusion at St Andrews, linked to both today’s World Down Syndrome Day and Autism Awareness Week.

Each day will begin with a short video during Registration, with Embracing Differences students and students from their Tutor Groups also hosting a variety of stalls and activities planned throughout the week.

The week will culminate in a 'Rock Your Odd Socks' Dance next Friday lunchtime when we hope to see even more students that participated in the recent International Women’s Day Zumba sessions.

University Update

The offers are rolling in! So far this year, we are proud to announce that Year 13 students have received 212 offers from 110 universities across 11 countries.

Over the remaining Newsletters this year, as we head towards our Graduation celebrations, we will be highlighting a range of different Year 13 students and the offers that they have received.

This week we highlight Sayantika, who has received nine offers in total to study Chemistry at universities in Canada and the UK:

United Kingdom

• The University of Bath
• The University of Bristol
• University College London (UCL)
• The University of Manchester
• The University of Warwick

Canada

• McGill University
• McMaster University
• The University of Toronto
• The University of Victoria

These include five of the top 100 universities in the world. Congratulations, Sayantika!

Learn more about Sayantika's university offers, motivations to pursue a degree in chemistry and all of her highlights & involvements at St Andrews here. 

High School Calendar - Term 2

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Mr Roo
Head of High School