Grants for nation's academic high-flyers

Seventy students from all over the country won scholarships in the annual New Zealand Educational and Scholarship Trust examinations.

The trust, which is financed by grants from a variety of New Zealand companies, will give $92,000 to successful students this year. A total of 1910 students from 217 secondary schools sat the demanding exams.

Winners of national scholarships, the highest achievers in the examinations, will receive $1500 each. Scholarship winners will receive $500.

Students named top in the various subject categories will receive $500. Distinction and merit awards of $150 will also be made to students who did not win a scholarship but who finished in the top 15 per cent of candidates in each subject.

New medallist awards of $500 were made to five students showing "genuine, all-round" abilities. To qualify, students had to sit a minimum of five subjects, including two from humanities and one from the sciences.

The winners in the Herald's circulation area were Christina Robertson (St Cuthbert's), Daniel Minhinnick (Auckland Grammar), William Han (St Paul's Collegiate) and Tobias Harper (Avondale College).

Other award winners in the Herald's area were:

NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Christina Jane Ringer Robertson, St Cuthbert's College; Richard Michael Jack Kramer, Westlake Boys High School; Amy Peng, independent candidate; Wei Chen (Brian) Hsu, Takapuna Grammar School; Caleb Edwin Ward, St Paul's Collegiate; Daniel John Minhinnick, Auckland Grammar School; James Fergus Morrison, King's College; William Tun-Wei Han, St Paul's Collegiate; Isaac Tama-ki-te-Rangi Hikaka, Auckland Grammar; Nathaniel James Barling, Macleans College; Howard Oliver Ho, King's College; Robert Pang-Che Huang, Auckland Grammar; Jen-Chen Mark Huang, Macleans College; Wai Ho Li St, Kentigern College; Wing Chuen Chan, Auckland Grammar; Tobias Joel Harper, Avondale College.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Yee Mei Emily Chan, independent candidate; Buddhika Navindra Rajapakse, Auckland Grammar; Ken Ginn, Auckland Grammar; Stephen Trevor McCracken, Avondale College; Chul-Whan Lim, Auckland Grammar; Allen Lee, Manurewa High School; Chamathka Indeewari Dias, Senior College of New Zealand; Desmond Chun Fung Chik, Auckland Grammar; Michael Downward, Auckland Grammar; Ee Ming Kelvin Lau, Mt Albert Grammar; Ben (Ting-Chiang) Yi, Glenfield College; Elizabeth Monique Griffiths, St Cuthbert's College; Brett Andrew Simpson, Macleans College; Nicola Joy Bond, Long Bay College; Renate Marquis-Nicholson, St Cuthbert's College; Christopher Waters; Rosmini College. Chaitanya Yaramada, Lynfield College; Richard Allen Faville, St Paul's Collegiate; Nicholas William Sage, Auckland Grammar; Kathryn Ann Willoughby, Manurewa High School; Hannah Margaret Woolnough, Westlake Girls High School; Christopher John Matson, Tauranga Boys College; Jung Sup Lee, Takapuna Grammar School; Ross Stanley Powell, Macleans College; Jeremy Yong Hsing Kuek, Macleans College; Che Wah Sarah Young independent candidate; Jonathan Bruce Coleman, Auckland Grammar; Owen Keith Jago, Macleans College; Chul Joo Lee, Rangitoto College; Emma Louise Daniel, Westlake Girls; Jimmy Kuang-Hsien Hu, Westlake Boys; Ruben Armstrong Lee, Otumoetai College; Peter James Smith, Mt Roskill Grammar; David Francis Jenkins, King's College; Daniel James Larsen, King's College; Jeong-Eun Yoon, Westlake Girls; Chung-Yu (Jim) Lee, Mt Roskill Grammar; Chenlong Tan, Auckland Grammar.

TOP IN SUBJECT

Accounting: Lisa, Hwee Chin Soh (New Plymouth Girls High School); biology: Romilla Mary Franks (Samuel Marsden Collegiate School) and Oliver Martin Muller-Cajar (Darfield High School), 1st equal; chemistry: Stephen Trevor McCracken (Avondale College); classical studies: Cameron Donovan Pritchard (Wellington College); economics: Betty Liang-Ching Chen (Selwyn College); English: Richard Michael Jack Kramer (Westlake Boys); French: David Michael Gaston (Dilworth School); geography: Daniel John Minhinnick, Auckland Grammar; German: Anthe Katherine Crawley (St Cuthbert's College); history: Tobias Joel Harper (Avondale College) and Grace Helen Bateman (Westlake Girls), 1st equal; history of art: Holly Margaret Warren (Nelson College for Girls); Japanese: Susanna So-Yeon Won (Rangitoto College); Latin: Christina Jane Ringer Robertson (St Cuthbert's); Maori: Rongomai Huatahi Te Mare Mohi (Whakatane High School); maths with calculus: Chul-Whan Lim (Auckland Grammar); maths with statistics: Yee Mei Emily Chan (independent); physics: Amy Peng (independent); Spanish: Sarah Teleri Garden (Thames High School).