Top students rise to challenge

This year's New Zealand Educational Scholarship Trust Award winners.

In ranking order:

Hogan Yeung, Auckland Grammar School; John Jit-Shern Chen, Auckland Grammar School; Ross David Bayer, Auckland Grammar; Jamie Bell, Auckland Grammar; David George Delamore, Auckland Grammar School; Rosalind Phillips, Havelock North High School; Wun-Shin Liew, Auckland Grammar; Irene Helen Ballagh, Otago Girls' High School; Albert John Bollard, Wellington College; Mark David Robinson, Westlake Boys' High School; Kai Hsun Hsiao, Auckland Grammar; Stephen Matthew, Kendrick Hillcrest High School; Arul Thavarajah, King's College; Luke Mark Basil Ford, King's College; Oliver Tompkins, Auckland Grammar School; Grant Duncan McGregor, Burnside High School; Joo Yeun Kim, Christchurch Girls' High School; Pascal Samuel Millaire, King's College; William Lennon Ormiston, King's College; Gareth Matthew Richards, Palmerston North Boys' High School; Yiing Leong Chin, Riccarton High School; Kevin Pak Kwan Chan, St Kentigern College; Robert Patrick Fisk, St Paul's Collegiate School; So Jung Park, Takapuna Grammar.

SCHOLARSHIPS

James Townshend, Auckland Grammar; Brooke Lockhart, Burnside High School; Sam Michael Jaffray, Palmerston North Boys' High School; Andrew Dean Llewelyn, Pukekohe High School; William James Thomson, Scots College; Michael Richard Oehley, St Paul's Collegiate; Bodhi Gayathri Wimalasena, Westlake Girls' High School; Ciaran Stephen James Thrush, King's College; Fei Wang, New Zealand International College; Matthew Philip Hyde, St Paul's Collegiate; Anthony Downward, Auckland Grammar; Alan Russell, Auckland Grammar; Karthik Nilakant, Burnside High School; Chien-Wei (Tina) Liu, Burnside High School; Jonathan Mark Proffitt, Kerikeri High School; Abigail Marya Fox, King's College; John (Chia-Han) Yang, Mt Roskill Grammar School; Yasith Ravinda Edirisinghe, Mt Roskill Grammar; Ting Yu, New Zealand International College; Gillian Isla Borrell, Rangi Ruru Girls' School; Johnny Cheung, St Kentigern College; Jason Francis Lee, Auckland Grammar; Colin Si Wai Mak, Auckland Grammar School; David Sydney Wong, Auckland Grammar; Mark Richard Stringer, Christ's College; Joe Fang, Christchurch Boys' High School; James Philip McCarthy, Palmerston North Boys' High School; Jacob Elliot Mattingley, St Andrew's College; David Aaron Lazarus, St Kentigern College; Chris Sweetman, Takapuna Grammar School; Alexander Stuart Franks, Wellington College; Joshua David Agnew, Westlake Boys' High School; Glen Kyle Hansen, Avondale College; Emma Jean Wills, Awatapu College; Alia Claire Louise Reid, Havelock North High School; Thiranjith Weerasinghe, Mt Albert Grammar School; Andrew Keith Miller, Mt Roskill Grammar; Steven Hung-Hsi Wu, St Kentigern College; Shaun Hotchkiss, Westlake Boys' High School; Hamish Sutherland Dalley, Whangarei Boys' High School; Thomas Chung Hau Wong, Auckland Grammar; Surendra Senthi, Auckland Grammar; Sahan Udayanga Wadasinghe, Auckland Grammar; Xuan Zhang, Christchurch Girls' High School; Robin Daniel Muller-Cajar, Darfield High School; Bhavani Gopalakrishnan, Epsom Girls' Grammar School; Sheela Upreti, Hillcrest High School; Jiamou Liu, Mt Albert Grammar School.

TOP IN SUBJECT

Accounting: Mark David Robinson (Westlake Boys' High School); biology: Alia Claire Louise Reid (Havelock North High School); chemistry: Christopher Speed (Tauranga Boys' College); classical studies: Hugh Carthew (Logan Park High School); economics: Jill Anne Caughey (James Hargest High School); English: Alexander Stuart Franks (Wellington College); French: Hannah Margaret Rosamund August (Logan Park High School) and Sophie Anne Lindsay (St Cuthbert's), 1st equal; geography: Glen Kyle Hansen (Avondale College) and Matthew James Olsen (Auckland Grammar), 1st equal; German: Alistair Peter Russell (Westlake Boys' High School) and Jennifer Marie Blair (Forest View High School), 1st equal; history: Albert John Bollard (Wellington College); history of art: Jessica Bell (Rangitoto College); Japanese: Yun-Young Lee (Westlake Girls' High School) and Joo-Yeon Cha (Diocesan School for Girls), 1st equal; Latin: Ross David Bayer (Auckland Grammar School); Maori: Marina Hikurangi Skipper (St Joseph's Maori Girls' College); maths with calculus: Ross David Bayer (Auckland Grammar); maths with statistics: Ross David Bayer (Auckland Grammar); music: John Jit-Shern Chen (Auckland Grammar); physics: Simon Lindsay Marshall (Onslow College); Spanish: Alida Mercuri (Tauranga Girls' College).

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