Great Scot - The Scotch Family Magazine - Issue 151 September 2017 GreatScot_Internal_Sept_2017_FA | Page 22

Features Premier’s Awards to 10 Scotch Collegians Congratulations to the 10 Scotch Collegians who received 2017 Premier’s Awards for their excellent VCE work. The awards, recognising the top-performing VCE students in 2016, were presented on 17 April, in front of an audience of more than 1100. The Scotch boys were among 287 students who received 320 awards in all. Warren Lee and Connor O’Brien were two of just 25 students who received the Top All-Round VCE High Achiever Awards. This award is presented to students who have achieved study scores of 46 or higher in at least five VCE studies. Nominations for study awards are based on students’ 2016 study scores. The number of awards in each study is calculated using the enrolment base in that study, and students must have achieved a study score of 46 or above to be eligible. Study awards were presented to the 20 following boys in the stated categories: Warren Lee (Specialist Mathematics), Connor O’Brien (German and Literature), Javier Cross (Ancient History), Victor Dobre* (Romanian), Andrew Kawai (English Language and Physics), Zi Feng (Tian Tian) Lan* (Music Performance), Michel Nehme* (Latin and Literature), Mitiadis (Mills) Paikopoulos* (Ancient History), Marcus Peters (Drama) and Zi Quan (Daniel) Qin* (Chinese Second Language Advanced). *These boys are currently in Year 12. The others are from the Class of 2016. TOP, LEFT TO RIGHT: JAVIER CROSS, MARCUS PETERS, VICTOR DOBRE, MITIADIS (MILLS) PAIKOPOULOS, ZI QUAN (DANIEL) QIN. LOWER, LEFT TO RIGHT: ANDREW KAWAI, ZI FENG (TIAN TIAN) LAN, MICHEL NEHME, CONNOR O’BRIEN, WARREN LEE. Great Scot Number 151 – September 2017