Winning image captures lifetime of love  

Paris Yves Zorzit has topped off a stunning final year of College with a photographic award for an image very close to her heart. Paris won the ACT Life’s Reflections Photographic Competition – Secondary Students Award in celebration of 2017 Grandparents Day. Inspired by the love between her grandparents, her simple image evokes much emotion and meaning. Paris said the love between her grandparents is their secret to healthy and positive ageing. She aspires to follow in their footsteps.

The Life’s Reflections Photographic Competition is an initiative of the ACT Office for Veterans and Seniors and contributes to the promotion of positive ageing, healthy and active lifestyles, and intergenerational relationships through photography.   

Construction Champs

Dylan Jones from St Francis Xavier College won 1^st place in Landscapes Construction at the Worldskills Competition Canberra Region 2017. Dylan, a school-based apprenticeship student, outshone second and third-year apprentices. As did runner up Matt Cummins also from SFX.

The SFX construction champs will be off to Sydney next year to compete in the Nationals.

STEM Sistas 

Senator Michaelia Cash was impressed by St Francis Xavier’s amazing science students Carlee-Ann Tonkin and Josephine Graham who were hand-picked to participate in the first national pilot of the STEM Sista Program run by STEMNATION and supported by Questacon. The aim of the program is to develop young women to realise they can be more and do more and ultimately achieve the goals they set for themselves in STEM related careers. St Francis Xavier has a strong science focus and its passionate teachers go to extraordinary lengths to extend emerging talents in this area.