12 Feb 2023
2022 QCE Achievement Award winners
Four of our highest-achieving Year 12 graduates from the class of 2022 were recognised as QCE Achievement Award winners at a ceremony on Saturday.
Chun Lee, John Lu, Nicholas Penklis and Dashiell Young each received a Distinguished Academic Achievers award.
This award is presented to students who, in being awarded a QCE, demonstrate exceptionally high achievement across a diverse range of learning options. Read more about the awards here.
Chun, John and Dashiell also achieved the maximum ATAR of 99.95 last year.
Chun has accepted a UQ Vice-Chancellors Scholarship to study a Bachelor of Biomedicine (Provisional entry into medicine) at The University of Queensland and would like to work as a doctor in Sydney or Melbourne. He received several awards whilst at Churchie, including the C E Elliott Rhodes Scholarship Award for Proxime Accessit to the Dux in QCE.
John has been awarded the Melbourne Chancellor’s Scholarship to study a Bachelor of Science at The University of Melbourne and aspires to become a medical specialist based in Australia. Last year, John was awarded The Tyrwhitt Memorial Cup for Dux of the School in QCE in addition to several other prizes at Speech Night.
Nicholas has accepted a UQ Vice-Chancellors scholarship to study a Bachelor of Engineering/Master of Engineering at The University of Queensland. Last year he was presented with an Academic Excellence Award at Speech Night.
Dashiell has accepted a UQ Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship to study Doctor of Medicine (MD) as part of the Provisional Entry for School-Leavers programme at The University of Queensland and hopes to practise medicine in Australia. He was recently awarded The Dr Paul McCarthy Memorial Bursary (for a Year 12 student proceeding to study science and ultimately medicine) at Churchie’s Academic Celebration Assembly.
Congratulations, Chun, John, Nicholas and Dashiell on an outstanding achievement, and we wish you all the best for your future endeavours.
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