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February 12, 2016
Takapuna
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FEBRUARY 12, 2016
2015 Young Designer Awards
Karate World Champ Hyunji Jo (pictured) won second place in the senior 2D drawing and painting category in the 2015 Young Designer Awards. She won the prize at the Re-creative International Arts Festival, which was organised and prepared by UNIWORLD –(NGO), in collaboration with Globally Aware Teen Exchange.
Nina Edgar (above) won gold at the Goju Karate World Championships at the end of November and automatically qualifies for the next Goju Karate World Championships in Romania in 2017. Nina represented New Zealand, competing in two events and winning both. She is now the world champion in the Individual Female Cadet 14/15 years Kata and the Junior Individual Female Kumate U48kg.
Top outcomes for International Baccalaureate students With four students gaining 41 and one on 44, the second cohort of IB Diploma students have done themselves proud, and the teachers and school are celebrating them. The school’s Proxime Accessit at Senior Prize-Giving, Muyu (Naomi) Liu gained the 44. With only one 45 result in New Zealand, this places Naomi second for the whole country. A score of over 40 is highly sought after and Mera Conger, Danielle Desvaux de Marigny, Tracy Zhang and Yuxuan (Tom) Zhang all gained a total of 41.
Ha Yeon Kim has received a scholarship to the prestigious Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where she will be studying engineering. In addition, Sol Hye Park has been unconditionally accepted into Korea’s most prestigious University, Younsei University, based on the skills she acquired in completing the IB Diploma at Takapuna. Sol attributes her success to the strength of her interview, the skills she gained in her CAS components and to the support given to her in the programme.
Naomi Liu with the Principal, Mr Simon Lamb, at Senior Prize-Giving