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2019 Results
Top 10 Rank | Student name | School |
Equal 1st and the Professor Sol Encel Award | Muir McLennan | Arndell Anglican College, Oakville |
Equal 1st and the Professor Sol Encel Award | Emma Gaston | Port Hacking High School |
3rd | Sanjana Janardhan | Macarthur Girls High School |
4th | Nidhi Nair | Macarthur Girls High School |
5th | Lara Hather | Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus |
6th | Paris Spennato | Emanuel School, Randwick |
7th | Mariam Arsalah | Willoughby Girls High School |
8th | Eun Sol – Josephine Lee | Willoughby Girls High School |
9th | Tess Guo | Willoughby Girls High School |
10th | Zahra Louise Kumarasinhe | Willoughby Girls High School |
High Distinction Personal Interest Projects HSC 2019
Award | Student name | School | PIP Title | PIP Description |
High Distinction
and the Dr Peg White Award |
Annie Rose Touw | Pittwater High School | Empowering voices for change | An investigation in the effects of media representations on the social inclusion and exclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. |
High Distinction | Ella-Rose Liasides | Georges River College, Oatley Senior Campus | The only fair is laissez-faire | An investigation into the repudiation of capitalism within the youth of western democracies. |
High Distinction | Muir McLennan | Arndell Anglican College, Oakville | BOYS DON’T CRY | How the shackles of the patriarchy restrict masculine expression and hinder gender inclusivity. An investigation into the currently limited gendered terrain and a false sense of liberation. |
High Distinction | Karen Yoshimura | Willoughby Girls High School | The sanitising of menstruation | An investigation into the social and cultural taboo of menstruation and its impact on gender identity in western society. |
High Distinction | Georgia Topic | Willoughby Girls High School | The Perfect Political Persona | “Politicians are increasingly utilising social media as a campaigning platform, bypassing traditional media sources and hence, threatening democratic principles.” |
High Distinction | Lily Rose Kitteringham | Caringbah High School | I am not a Feminist…..But | An inquiry into the ‘corruption” of feminism and if there is a need for a new title to continue purposeful discourse within the gender equality movement. |
High Distinction | Mariam Arsalah | Willoughby Girls High School | Beyond the helpless victim | The misrepresentation of Afghan women in mainstream media has constructed harmful stereotypes that perpetuate exclusionary perceptions of an oppressed passive gender. |
High Distinction | Mika Nakamura | Willoughby Girls High School | We are the future | Despite the stereotypes of youth’s shallow digital social and political engagement, young people are a highly socially and culturally aware generation. |
High Distinction | Zahra Louise Kumarasinhe | Willoughby Girls High School | Climate crisis? What Climate Crisis? | Climate change action has been paralysed by political and social denialism fuelled by ignorance, apathy and misinformation. |
High Distinction | Reid Quealy | Engadine High School | Saving the day, the ”gay” way! | An investigation into comic books’ capacity to act as a powerful conduit for change with regards to the acceptance and inclusion of the LGBTQI+ community |
High Distinction | Scarlet Lennon | Central Coast Grammar | Eat. Sleep. Gender binary. Repeat. | An investigation into …Feminism’s attempt to deconstruct the gender binary and norms of the domestic sphere. |
High Distinction | Marni Taylor | Engadine High School | Appropriation and misuse of indigenous art | An investigation into how the appropriation and misuse of indigenous art affects the inclusion of Aboriginal peoples identity and culture in Australian society. |
Distinction Personal Interest Projects HSC 2019 13 awarded from over 4700 candidates
Award | Student name | School | PIP Title | PIP Description |
Distinction | Bianca Marie Salis | Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College, North Sydney | Purchasing femininity | An investigation onto how gender and femininity have been commodified over time and the extent in which this commodification is exploitative or empowering for women. |
Distinction | Anna Suzuki | Willoughby Girls High School | Between stereotypes: feminist Christians | An investigation into the origins of the perception of mutual incompatibility between the Feminists and Christian philosophy. |
Distinction | Sarah Amis | Emmaus Catholic College | If it bleeds, it leads. | An investigation into the changing nature of news and its power in shaping peoples perception of the world. |
Distinction | Ava Riddell | Corpus Christi Catholic High School, Oak Flats | Like and share this PIP if you care | A report exploring the success of online activism initiatives in achieving measurable social change. |
Distinction | Lana Beizan | St Narsai Assyrian Christian College | BLAXploitation | An in-depth investigation into the driving forces liable for the unjust societal privileges groups and individuals acquire through the context of race. |
Distinction | Wahida Yaqubi | Arthur Phillip High School | The succumbing dynamics of survival | The influence of Afghanistan’s cultural complexities on the entitlements of Afghan females through the lens of bachas posh versus the assumed liberations of Australian – Afghan females. |
Distinction | Maria Victoria Ciccone | Willoughby Girls High School | Argentine Feminazis | The criticism of Argentina’s radical feminist movement is indicative of the contested nature of feminist ideology. |
Distinction | Nidhi Nair | Macarthur Girls High School | Where’s our ”fair shake of the sauce bottle” | An intergenerational investigation into the perceived Australian political archetype and culture of apathy. |
Distinction | Emma Gaston | Port Hacking High School | I am the white saviour | An investigation into the intergenerational normalisation of voluntourism by westernised individuals and the sustained impact on host-communities society and culture |
Distinction | Marlie Howley | St Scholastica’s College, Glebe | Surfing’s gender order | An investigation into how and why gendered identities are constructed and deconstructed within the subculture of surfing |
Distinction | Cassandra Song | Willoughby Girls High School | All the eyes we cannot see……. | Invasive technologies and the rise of surveillance capitalism pose a threat to democracy |
Distinction | Eliana Digby | Willoughby Girls High School | huMANkind | Gendered language perpetuates social exclusion and narrow identities for women at the micro, meso and macro level of society. |
Distinction | Jasmine Angela Xuan Arndt | Cheltenham Girls High School | Assimilation or alienation | An investigation of the perception of the assimilation of Chinese immigrants and the impact of intercultural relationships on one ‘s sense of social inclusion within Australia |
2018 Results
Rank | Student | School |
1 | Zoe Mitchell
Receives Professor Sol Encel Award |
Central Coast Grammar School |
2 | Chrysanthi Diasinos | Blakehurst High School |
3 | Marko Beocanin | Normanhurst Boys High School |
4 | Tieki Woonton | Kariong Mountains High School |
5 | Elena Khoury | Central Coast Grammar School |
6 | Isabella Katsiris | Menai High School |
7 | Emelia Corlett | Central Coast Grammar School |
Equal 8 | Keziah Ariella Hendra | Glenwood High School |
Equal 8 | Lucinda Nadine Leten | Mulwaree High School |
Equal 10 | Chelsey-Lee Ortega | Clancy Catholic College |
Equal 10 | Zane Mestousis | Marsden High School |
High Distinction Personal Interest Projects HSC 2018
Student | School | PIP Title |
Jackson Smith | Engadine HS | ‘Grab em’ by the balls’ |
Aurelia Winzenberg | Willoughby GHS | The Class Ceiling |
Isabel Carter | Willoughby GHS | Tourism on the boarder of authenticity |
Holly Braico | Willoughby GHS | Killing Me Softly |
Samruddhi Kamane | Moorebank HS | Bleach it Don’t Preach it |
Helen Kalou Peg White award recipient |
Westfields Sports HS | Racism is just a Pigment of your imagination |
Jordyn Hicks | Willoughby GHS | Government and Indigenous Australians |
Isabella Katsiris | Menai HS | Like a girl |
Karera Layla Aoki | Willoughby GHS | The Yaoi Mystique |
Kathryn Victoria Jarrett Keane | Macarthur Anglican School Cobbitty | Oh My COD! Racism Remastered |
Chelsey-Lee Ortega | Clancy Catholic College | One Small step For Woman, One Giant Leap for Mankind |
Isobel Rose Carr | Lambton HS | Damsels in Democratic Distress |
Kasturi PK Kunalan | North Sydney GHS | Handcuffed |
Max Goring | Central Coast Grammar | AKRASIA |
Distinction Personal Interest Projects HSC 2018
Student | School | PIP Title |
Vivien Janitz | Willoughby GHS | Us vs Them |
Isabella Cavanagh | Willoughby GHS | For those who have come across the seas |
Isabelle Robertson | Turramurra HS | Green is the new black ? |
Josephine Maltese | Willoughby GHS | Western Media constructions of Asian ethnic identities |
Alexandra Crowhurst | Willoughby GHS | Rapping Up Rap |
Rahni Stuart-Crone | Lambton HS | Surname: To change or not to change? That is the question. |
Brooke Harris | Clancy Catholic College | It’s Good to be Bad! |
Harrison John Inshaw | Castle Hill HS | AFL and Indigenous Australians |
Mona Anne Ryan | Elizabeth Macarthur HS | It does matter if you are black or white |
Chrysanthi Diasinos | Blakehurst HS | Cultural preservation in a post-genocide Diaspora |
Aleisha Hyslop | Willoughby GHS | The Toxic Workplace |
2017 Results
Rank | Student | School |
1st | Ronahi Demirbag The Professor Sol Encel Prize |
Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Selective Campus |
2nd | Alexis Jade Tram | Elizabeth Macarthur HS |
3rd | Renee Ellen Preketes-Tardiani | Crestwood HS |
4th | Eva Sikes-Gerogiannis | Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay Campus |
Equal 5th | Neilab Osman | Riverside GHS |
Equal 5th | Jenna Sihyun Yim | Hornsby GHS |
7th | Jessica Patterson | Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Selective Campus |
8th | Annie Martin | Willoughby GHS |
9th | Rizina Yadav | Merewether High School |
10th | Sasha Nielsen | Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Selective Campus |
High Distinction Personal Interest Projects for HSC 2017
Name | School | PIP Title |
Fatma Mawassi
The Dr Peg White Prize |
Burwood Girls’ High School | Finding the I in Islam |
Hanan Kamal | Macarthur Girls’ High School | Mask on or mask off |
Rizina Yadav | Merewether High School | Populism: The worst deal ever |
Grace Everett | Engadine High School | Can all male students please stand now to take the oath. |
Mia Yoneda | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Contesting heteronormativity in Japanese culture |
Mikaela Jenkinson | Willoughby Girls’ High School | All aboard the mateship |
Ronahi Demirbag | Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Selective Campus | Homeless even at home |
Ruby Hamersley | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Take the red pill |
Phoebe Wilson | Hunter School of Performing Arts | The childfree choice of women |
Sophia Kovac | Thomas Hassall Anglican College | Raising a fist … the same height high |
Akram Qashou | Penrith High School | The refugee in the room |
Distinction Personal Interest Projects for HSC 2017
Name | School | PIP Title |
Isabella Salvo | Central Coast Grammar School | Strong is the new skinny |
Ruby Rose Hansen-Tarrant | St Philip’s Christian College, Port Stephens | Living beneath the cracks |
Hannah Sterling | Central Coast Grammar School | The superficiality of success |
Grace Elizabeth Baxter | Maitland Grossman High School | Oppressed by the West |
Neilab Osman | Riverside Girls’ High School | The other speaks |
Alice-Rose Lucchetti | Willoughby Girls’ High School | No offence, but….. |
Eva Sikes-Gerogiannis | Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay Campus | Freaks and Greeks |
Sophia He | Hornsby Girls’ High School | No news is good news |
Holly Frances Yare | Merewether High School | “Halal snackpacks fund terrorism” |
Aimee Ball | Central Coast Grammar | Boys will be boys |
Alexandrine Sarah Curtis | Springwood High School | Pioneering the virtual queer frontier |
Annie Martin | Willoughby Girls’ High School | The extreme sensation of being sensationally extreme |
2016 Results
Rank | Student | School |
1st | Helaine Liew
The Professor Sol Encel Prize |
Willoughby Girls’ High School |
2nd | Seda Hamoud | Liverpool Girls’ High School |
Equal 3rd | Madeleine Bosler | Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Selective Campus |
Equal 3rd | Ellen Ly | Westfield Sports High School |
5th | Clarissa Zurlo | St Scholastica’s College |
6th | Tara Maureen Arrow | Murfield High School |
7th | Tutti Valerie Copping | Turramurra High School |
Equal 8th | Craig MacKenzie | Rose Bay Secondary College |
Equal 8th | Elena Pavlou-Watt | Merewether High School |
Equal 8th | Hannah May Spinks | Castle Hill High School |
High Distinction Personal Interest Projects for HSC 2016
Name | School | PIP Title |
Sophie Totonjian
The Dr Peg White Award |
Central Coast Grammar | The impact of western education on Indigenous Australians development of self- efficacy |
Gloria Nasr | Castle Hill High School | investigation into the changing nature of protesting through the rise of virtual activism |
Lauren Tillman | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Political A-Gender |
Louise Press | Gymea Technology High School | Stand; speak; type; act |
Adelaide Bragias | Merewether High School | In gov. we trust |
Fatima Olumee | Moorebank High School | One flew over the cuckoo’s nest |
Seda Hamoud | Liverpool Girls’ High School | Survival in the digital eco system |
Jiyeong Park | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Feminism in Australia and Korea |
Jessica Wilson | Wadalba Community School | The rage for raunch |
Prudence Wilkins-Wheat | Menai High School | The F word |
Lauren Lai | Willoughby Girls’ High School | It’s just not black and white |
Nicolette Seroukas | Willoughby Girls’ High School | You have the right to remain polarised |
Distinction Personal Interest Projects for HSC 2016
Name | School | PIP Title |
Helaine Liew | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Voluntourism |
Han Joo Ahn | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Digital democracy |
Ruxi Geng | Albury High School | Behind the proverbial glasses |
Josephine Duncan- Nagy | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Drawing the line |
Daniel Watts | Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Selective Campus | Hook, Line and Sinker |
Saranda Sokolaj | Macarthur Girls’ High School | A Home away from home |
Chiara Lam | Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay Campus | The changing game |
Coen Ayres | Dulwich High School | Weapons of mass distortion |
Fariha Ahmad | Glenwood High School | Secularisation on trial |
Kristina O’Brien | Hunter Valley Grammar | The great commission or the great omission |
Cassandra Malouf | Gosford High School | Educating the educators |
Vijeta Venkatesh Prasad | Nagle College, Blacktown | Power placement, hero or side kick |
Madeleine Bosler | Northern Beaches Secondary College, Manly Selective Campus | Pleasure censure |
Lisa Ngo | North Sydney Girls’ High School | Saigoing, going, gone |
2015 Results
2014 Results
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HSC 2014: EXAMINATION RESULTS – TOP 10 STUDENTS
Rank | Name | Surname | School |
1 & the Prof. Sol Encel Award | Imogen | D’Souza | Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus |
2 | Ann | Wen | North Sydney Girls High School |
3 | Imogen | Learmonth | Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus |
4 | Cathy | Fei | Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus |
5 | Gabriella | Vumbaca | Gosford High School |
Equal 6 | Justine | Amin | St Marys Senior High School |
Equal 6 | Aqsa | Shahid | Macarthur Girls High School |
8 | Alexandra | Neave | Engadine High School |
9 | Jamaica | Eisner | Willoughby Girls High School |
10 | Liliana | Tai | North Sydney Girls High School |
HSC in Society and Culture 2014 – High Distinction and Distinction Personal Interest Projects
Category | Name | Surname | School | Project Title |
High Distinction & the Dr. Margaret White Award | Boi Quyen | Ly | Fairvale High School | When language dies |
High Distinction | Lauren | Moore | Willoughby Girls High School | Violence anaesthesia |
High Distinction | Alexandra | Neave | Engadine High School | Can social justice be more than just another brick in the wall? |
High Distinction | Viktoriya | Gerova | North Sydney Girls High School | Seeing Red |
High Distinction | Aqsa | Shahid | Macarthur Girls High School | Muslim and Western: Living a life of contradiction |
High Distinction | Elena | Monakhova | Glenaeon School | Tiger Cubs |
High Distinction | Vanessa | Anthony | North Sydney Girls High School | Blitzkrieg Pop |
High Distinction | Gillian | Battese | Willoughby Girls High School | Blurred Lines: Entertainment or Exploitation? |
Distinction | Kaitlin | Hill | Lucas Heights Community School | Hop on Pop |
Distinction | Ananya | Singh | Fairvale High School | But first let me take a selfie |
Distinction | Melanie | Raymond | St Marys Senior High School | When History Matters |
Distinction | Rebecca | Coorey | All Saints Senior College Casula | Media of Leb Destruction |
Distinction | Courtney | Kwak | All Saints Senior College Casula | Mass Media killed the Political Star |
Distinction | Karrie | Benz | Penrith High School | Steaks and Cakes |
Distinction | Emily | Draper | Leumeah High School | Lets Play: Sexism in video games and the community |
Distinction | Jasleen | Chew | North Sydney Girls High School | Be a Man |
Distinction | Tiarnne | Brown | Magdalene Catholic High School | Can you see the Blind Side |
Distinction | Jarrett | Spice | Patrician Brothers Blacktown | I’ve always been famous, it’s just no one knew it yet |
2013 Results
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HSC 2013: EXAMINATION RESULTS – TOP 10 STUDENTS
Rank | Name | Surname | School |
1 (Equal) and the Sol Encel Prize | Aparna | Balakumar | Hornsby Girls High School |
1 (Equal) and the Sol Encel Prize | Alessandra | Bianco | Freeman Catholic College |
3 | Rachel | Djoeandy | Caringbah High School |
4 | Madelyn | Smith | St Marys Senior High School |
5 (Equal) | Jemma | Cavanagh | North Sydney Girls High School |
5 (Equal) | Peggy | Wei | North Sydney Girls High School |
7 | Brigitte | Samaha | North Sydney Girls High School |
8 | Christian | Whitfield | Central Coast Grammar School |
9 | Alana | Bourke | Hunters Hill High School |
10 | Imogen | Frost | Willoughby Girls High School |
HSC in Society and Culture 2013 – High Distinction and Distinction Personal Interest Projects
Category | Name | Surname | School | Project Title |
High Distinction | Rose | Hartley | Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College | Racism: It’s not a Black and White Issue: A study into the unconscious prejudice embedded within Australia’s ‘egalitarian’ society that accepts Aboriginal identity |
High Distinction | Katie | Yung | Willoughby Girls High School | Hetero(normal)tivity: Heteronormative practices in the mass media |
High Distinction and the Margaret White Award | Salima | Yunespour | Macarthur Girls High School | ‘Go and do some homework then get back in the kitchen!’ The contradiction of the new educational landscape for Afghan girls and traditional gender roles in the Afghan-Australian diaspora |
High Distinction | Dominic | Pham | Macquarie Fields High School | Migrating Away: Exploring the Changes in Collective Culture within a Western host country |
High Distinction | Jessica | Weight | Northern Beaches Secondary College Mackellar Girls Campus | Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Does the Modern Woman Have it All? Has the role of the working woman changed since the feminist revival in the 1970s, and if so, how are societal pressures affecting modern day working women in globalised Australian society? |
High Distinction | Amy | Johnston | Davidson High School | ‘Seeing Ourselves Onscreen’An exploration of Australian National identity through Australian film |
High Distinction | Christina | Knezevich | North Sydney Girls High School | Activism? An investigation into the changing nature of adolescent social activism and the extent to which interactive behaviours and decision making influence the outcomes of activism. |
High Distinction | Wendy | Jiang | North Sydney Girls High School | A Work in Progress: An investigation into the combined effect of language maintenance and acculturation on the hybridisation of second generation Chinese Australians |
High Distinction | Margery | Ai | North Sydney Girls High School | Eyes Wide Open: An Investigation into how and why Chinese Australian adolescents’ aspirations towards westernisation are expressed in particular stylised manifestations, and the impacts on the formation of Chinese identity |
High Distinction | Emy | Yoneda | Willoughby Girls High School | Lost in Translation |
Distinction | Abirami | Rajkumar | Hornsby Girls High School | Detention Seekers: An investigation into the differing experiences and outcomes of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers in Australia |
Distinction | Hanieya | Rehman | Macarthur Girls High School | A Woman of Few Words: A Study into the perceptions of Muslim Pakistani women on the status of women in Pakistan according to Islam and the influence of Islam on the factors that affect these perceptions. |
Distinction | Amelia | Fist | Central Coast Grammar School | Society has got the curse: A study of how the evolving social construction of mensuration has directly and intimately affected women’s relationship with their gender identity and femininity |
Distinction | Peggy | Wei | North Sydney Girls High School | Keep Calm and Gangnam Style: An Investigation into the impacts of the macro transcultural consumption of Kpop on the modification of micro Chinese Australian adolescent girls’ cultural identity |
Distinction | Sindy | Tang | North Sydney Girls High School | Be the Change that You 4C: An Investigation into the macro and micro influences on higher-order decision making of Australian adolescents in regards to their interest and participation in social, political and environmental activism |
Distinction | Erica | Goh | North Sydney Girls High School | Undressing The Kogyaru: An investigation into the influences the transculturation and subsequent internationalisation of the Kogyaru image have on the construction of Asian-Australian girls’ ideas of femininity and future development of gender identity. |
Distinction | Alessandra | Bianco | Freeman Catholic College | Postcode Profiling 101: Does Your Address Define You?: An investigation into the extent to which a person’s quality of life, in terms of access to socially valued resources, is determined by their suburb. |
Distinction | Hayley | McQualter | Merewether High School | Pretty in Pink? Not in my office! An investigation into how factors influencing how childhood agents of gender socialisation can determine gender roles in the workforce. |
Distinction | Madelyn | Smith | St Marys Senior High School | I’m a Woman, Hear me Raunch: A sociocultural analysis of the raunch culture trend and it’s significance for feminism and gender equality in the 21st Century. |
2012 Results
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HSC 2012: EXAMINATION RESULTS – TOP 10 STUDENTS
Rank | Name | Surname | School |
1 – The Sol Encel Prize
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Emily | Freedman | Rose Bay Secondary College |
2
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Natalie Hei Man | Leung | North Sydney Girls High School |
3
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Ray | Moebes | Willoughby Girls High School |
4
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Anita | Bambridge | Barrenjoey High School |
5
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Sarah | Elmasri | Macarthur Girls High School |
6
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Olivia | Campbell | Chevalier College Bowral |
7
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Ruby | Leahy Gatfield | Burwood Girls High School |
8
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Alison | Woodward | North Sydney Girls High School |
9
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Elsa | Young | Hornsby Girls High School |
10
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Brittany | Ward | Engadine High School |
HSC in Society and Culture 2012 – High Distinction and Distinction Personal Interest Projects
Category | Name | Surname | School | Project Title |
High Distinction Peg White Award |
Natalie Hei Man | Leung | North Sydney Girls High School | Holding Up Half the Sky? An Investigation into the Effects of Migration and Acculturation on the Gender Values of Chinese-Australian Women and Adolescent Girls |
High Distinction | Emily | Taylor | Willoughby Girls High School | Why Grandpa Says Inappropriate Things: The Role of Age in Regards to Prejudice and Cultural Competency, and the Ability to be Culturally Tolerant |
High Distinction | Sosan | Rahimi | Macarthur Girls High School | Se(xx)y Talk: An Investigation into the use of Gendered Language Within Afghan Media in the Portrayal of Women |
High Distinction | Sarah | Elmasri | Macarthur Girls High School | Suppressed and Silenced: The 21st Century Representation of the Lebanese Muslim Female. An investigation in determining whether the hegemonic masculinity of Lebanese Muslim males has exacerbated the oppression of their female counterparts |
High Distinction | Christina | Siswandi | Willoughby Girls High School | ‘White Flight’ Leaves ‘Others’ Out of Sight: White Flight from Public Schooling is Discouraging Cultural Diversity in Rural Areas, also Reflected in Urban Areas, therefore not reflecting a Multicultural Australia |
High Distinction | Ray | Moebes | Willoughby Girls High School | Write or Wrong: An Investigation into the Discursive Construction of Asylum Seekers in Australian Print Media |
High Distinction | Tamara | Forward | Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College | In Retrospect: Is the Rapidity of Change in our 21st Century Lives the Reason for our Fascination with Retro? |
High Distinction | Emily | Stratten | Wollongong HS of Performing Arts | “Who’s Afraid of the Leading Lady?” An exploration into how the changing roles of women in film reflect our changing society, from the 1950s to today. |
High Distinction | Jessica Xinyao | Chen | Killara High School | From the Egg to the Phoenix: Understanding the Upbringing of Chinese Australians under Traditional Chinese Educational Values and its Impact on Australia |
High Distinction | Danica | Zhan | North Sydney Girls High School | Window Shopping in the Department Store of the Exotic Other: An Investigation into the Fetishisation and Consequent Commodification of ‘exotic’ cultures by the West |
Distinction | Anita | Bambridge | Barrenjoey High School | A Nation Half Empty, Now a Nation Half Full: The Australian Publics Changing Attitudes Towards Asylum Seekers and Refugees |
Distinction | Lucinda | Matthews | Penrith High School | All the Way With Youth Today: The Political Interest of Australian Adolescents |
Distinction | Amy | Rogers | Gosford High School | Disengagement to Engagement – Your Ticket is Number 1; Compassion |
Distinction | Alison | Woodward | North Sydney Girls High School | ‘That’s So Asian’: Racial Humour and the Internalisation of Race Amongst Chinese-Australian Adolescent Girls |
Distinction | Tia | Soulakellis | Willoughby Girls High School | Can the Real Australia Please Stand Up: The Portrayal of Australian Identity by Media Tourism Campaigns are Cliched Fabrications That Represent Staged Authenticity |
Distinction | Laura | Somers | Willoughby Girls High School | The Dehumanisation of Persons With Disabilities: An Investigation Into the Social and Cultural Exclusion of Persons With Disabilities Within Mainstream Australian Society |
Distinction | Haruka | Metoki | Willoughby Girls High School | The Mystique of Multiculturalism: Whilst Multiculturalism is Theoretically a Positive and Cooperative Policy, in Practice Australian Migrants are Segregated and Isolated |
Distinction | Tess | Vincent | Mossman High School | The Changing Nature of Protest Movements: The Occupy Movement |
Distinction | Talieh | Modabber | Willoughby Girls High School | Born to an Identity: An Investigation of the Characteristic of Social Exclusion in Australian National Identity |
Distinction | Sharon | Zhao | Willoughby Girls High School | “He said, she said”: The Gendered Language. The Differentiated Use of Language by Males and Females is more than just Linguistic Style; it is a construct of sex role stereotyping |
Distinction | Ahmed | Malik | St Clair High School | All Eyez on Me: The Muslim Male Adolescent in a Post September 11 World: How does faith influence the identity of the Muslim adolescent male in the Western suburbs of Sydney? |
Distinction | Daniela Jing Man | Kwan | Cheltenham Girls High School | PIP: Policy in Progress. A Study into Whether Multiculturalism in Australia is a Practical Reality of simply an Ideology, through the experiences of Chinese-Australians |
Distinction | Elizabeth | Campbell | Mackillop Catholic College | The Boat Sails By, the Shore Remains: An exploration into the effect of the Khmer Rouge on Cambodia today |
Distinction | Crystal | Yang | North Sydney Girls High School | K-Pop in the 21NEst Century: An investigation into the growth of the second Hallyu Wave and its influence on the identity of Asian-Australian adolescents |
Distinction | Madeline | Harris | Kildare Catholic College | Grass Ceiling Effect: Have We Today Achieved a ‘Level Playing Field’ for Elite Female Athletes? |
Distinction | Madon | Aaresh | Normanhurst Boys High School | We Wish Jews a Merry Easter and a Chinese New Year: A study on the adaptation of Festive Holidays in a Western Nation |
Distinction | Ryley | Miller | Normanhurst Boys High School | A Grave Issue: An Examination of how Death Perception affects Society and its People |
2011 Results
HSC 2011: EXAMINATION RESULTS – TOP 10 STUDENTS
Rank | Name | Surname | School |
1 | Adeline Yuan Wing | Lee | North Sydney Girls High School |
2 | Taseen | Rahman | Normanhurst Boys High School |
3 | Natasha | Lennard | Hunter School of Performing Arts |
4 | Eden | Grimes | Caroline Chisholm College |
5 | Stephanie | McDonald | Willoughby Girls High School |
6 | Rebecca | Richardson | Penrith High School |
7 | Andre | Bosch | Macquarie Fields High School |
8 | Leanne | Ho | Penrith High School |
9 | Nicola | Scott | St Marys Senior High School |
10 | Saito | Leo | Normanhurst Boys High School |
HSC in Society and Culture 2011 – High Distinction and Distinction Personal Interest Projects
Category | Name | Surname | School | Project Title |
HD / Generational Prize | Adeline Yuan Wing | Lee | North Sydney Girls High School | Rise of the Tiger Cubs: an Investigation Into How and Why Chinese Immigrant Parents Have Continued To Practice Tiger Parenting in Australia |
HD / Continuity & Change Prize | Ravneet | Deo | Wyndham College | Sikh Gender Roles |
HD / Culture Prize | Patria | Manalili | St Andrews (Quakers Road) | Lost in Translation: An Investigation into the Impact of Native Language for Personal and Cultural Identity |
HD / Gender Prize | Luke | Cooper | Lucas Heights Community School | Gaga vs Gillard: An Investigation into the Rise of Raunch Culture and the Demise of Female Political Identity |
HD / The Sol Encel Prize | Athena | Blanksby | Engadine High School | Helping Me Helping You: Voluntourism – an Exploration of the Rising Phenomenon of Socially Conscious Travelling |
HD / Technology Prize | Serena Chor Yin | Li | Willoughby Girls High School | Growing up Digital: Rise of the Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants |
HD / The Peg White Equality & Difference Prize | Jessy | Coulson | Marsden High School | On Your Marks, Get Set, STOP! You’re a Woman… The Media Maintains and Fuels Patriarchal Ideology in Sport |
HD | Khaulah | Bachsinar | St Mary’s Senior High School | Unveiling the Truth A Socio-Cultural Study on How Australians Perceive the Islamic Headscarf |
HD | Alexandra | Barclay | Asquith Girls High School | Quality Over Quantity: ‘Only Children’ in Society |
HD | Melissa | Ellen | Wollongong HS of Performing Arts | Dissent to Disillusionment: The Changing Trends and Characteristics of Students Involved in Campus Activism, between Genders, from the 1960s to Today |
HD | Janeia | Javillonar | St Marys Senior High School | Cultural Identity |
Distinction | Evelyn Hoi Wan | Chan | Hornsby Girls High School | Inside the Collection Tin |
Distinction | Veronica | Dunn | Freshwater Senior Campus | Brandalism |
Distinction | Imman | Hafez | Birrong Girls High School | A Faith of Their Own |
Distinction | Sophia | Hardy | North Sydney Girls High School | The Handmaid’s Tale: An Investigation into how the Idealisation of Motherhood as Constructed in the Macro World Impacts the Affirmation of Female Gender Role Identity and Consequent Decision Making |
Distinction | Angela | Hung | St Mary’s Senior High School | The Alpha Male |
Distinction | Katie | Mallett | Nagle College | The Beginning of a Bloody Tale: How Has the Social and Cultural Attitudes Towards Menstruation Changed and Stayed the Same Over Time? |
Distinction | Angelica | Manlangit | Penrith High School | Women’s Rights, Worth the Fight? Analysing the true extent of social constructs in perpetuating female inequality |
Distinction | Angelina | Smith | The Jannali High School | Why not my Language? |
Distinction | Georgia | McCarthy | St Mary’s Senior High School | Stereotyping of Aboriginal People in the Media |
Distinction | Stephanie | McDonald | Willoughby Girls High School | The Ethics Classes Provide a Meaningful Alternative to Scripture in NSW Primary Schools |
Distinction | Ateeb Ali | Mirza | Kogarah High School | I’m Too Sexy For My Kurta: An Investigation of Masculinity in the Pakistani Community |
Distinction | Rebecca | Richardson | Penrith High School | Going It Alone: The Changing Role of Single Parent Families Within Society |
Distinction | Nicola | Scott | St Marys Senior High School | Reality Bites |
Distinction | Felicity | Tindall | Keira High School | To Grow or Not to Grow, That is the Question: An Examination of the Social and Cultural Influences on Domestic Food Growing in Three Diverse Suburbs |
Distinction | Cairena | Wells | Menai High School | Over 30 Years of Rocking the Boat in Australia |
2010 Results
TOP 10 STUDENTS
Rank | Name | Surname | School |
Eq 1 | Melanie | Brierley | Willoughby Girls’ High School |
Eq 1 | Rachel | Leembruggen | St Mary’s Senior High School |
3 | Zoe | Hungerford | Gosford High School |
4 | Ruby | Wharton | Gosford High School |
Eq 5 | Tessa | Feggans | Caringbah High School |
Eq 5 | Brittany | Ferdinands | Domremy College |
Eq 7 | Felix | Donovan | Bulli High School |
Eq 7 | Rachell Shuang Lei | Li | Hornsby Girls’ High School |
9 | Philip | Kocovski | Penrith High School |
10 | Jing | Ye | Hornsby Girls’ High School |
PIP AWARDS AND PRIZES
Category | Name | Surname | School | Project Title |
HD/Community Prize | Philip | Kocovski | Penrith High School | Macedonian-Australian: Explaining the Hyphen |
HD/Generational Prize | Isabel | Cornes | Willoughby Girls’ High School | A Change in the Weather |
HD/Reconciliation Prize | Eleonora | Horton | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Baa-Baa Black Sheep |
HD/Gender Prize | Zoe | Hungerford | Gosford High School | Is that a Cape or and Apron? |
HD/Personal Experience Prize | Harriet | Reid | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Veiled Hopes, Western Woes |
HD/Popular Culture Prize | Brittany | Ferdinands | Domremy College | It’s a Disney World After All |
HD/Society Prize | Melanie | Brierley | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Come Out and Play |
HD/Equality & Difference Prize | Alexandra | Waldron | Merewether High School | Where You From? You Sporty Thing! |
HD/Culture Prize | Shirley | Wang | Macarthur Girls’ High School | Confucius, Cultural Revolution and Capitalism |
HD/Sol Encel Prize | Olivia | Nunn | William Clarke College | Weapons of Mass Consumption |
HD/Continuity & Change Prize | Lucy | Sullivan | Cheltenham Girls’ High School | Whatever Floats your Boat |
High Distinction | Sophie | Marshall | Santa Sabina College | Beyond the Paint: Graffiti’s Value in Contemporary Society |
High Distinction | Hayden | Relf | Terrigal High School | The Artist as Citizen |
High Distinction | Sarah | Humphrey | Willoughby Girls’ High School | The Gospel According to Disney |
Distinction | Ellen | McPherson | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Can we be Heroes? |
Distinction | Jessie | Meyers | Emmanuel School | Integrate or Disintegrate? |
Distinction | Pamela | Buena | St Mary’s Senior High School | To be Older is to be Out of Order |
Distinction | Laura | Sloane | Cheltenham Girls’ High School | Modernity: Try Before you Buy |
Distinction | Angelina | Smith | The Jannali High School | Why not my Language? |
Distinction | Bianca | Engmann | Willoughby Girls’ High School | The Gender of Words |
Distinction | Elise | Buckley | Holy Spirit College Bellambi | Western Ideology vs. PNG Traditional Culture |
Distinction | Esther | Henderson | Bellingen High School | Without Language, what hope is there for Culture? |
Distinction | Avi Hiu Yee | Chan | Cheltenham Girls’ High School | Colour Blind Love: Changing Attitudes Towards Inter-racial Marriages in Australia |
Distinction | Maya | Obirek | Wyndham College | Sex Sells: The Influence of Sexualised Advertising on the Social Norms of Today’s Adolescents |
Distinction | Nicola | Coady | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Egotopia: Consumerism Refashioning Mind & Body |
Distinction | Rebekah | Outteridge | Merewether High School | I Speak, Therefore I Am |
Distinction | Haylee | Poppi | Gosford High School | All Hail the Indie-Vidual: The Paradox of the Alternative Music Subculture |
2009 Results
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TOP 10 STUDENTS
Rank | Name | Surname | School |
Eq 1 | Lauren | Carmichael | St Andrew’s Cathedral School |
Eq 1 | Emma | Bowers | Killara High School |
3 | Allison | Grech | Freeman Catholic College |
4 | Danielle | Gay | Gosford High School |
5 | Dilan | Sellahewa | Baulkham Hills High School |
6 | Jemma | Cartland | Gosford High School |
7 | Lara | Munn | St Ursula’s College |
8 | Linda | Przhedetsky | Hornsby Girls’ High School |
9 | Jessica | Blain | Willoughby Girls’ High School |
10 | Racha | Dabliz | Macarthur Girls’ High School |
PIP AWARDS AND PRIZES
Category | Name | Surname | School | Project Title |
The President’s Prize | Jessica | Blain | Willoughby Girls High School | Penetrating Australia’s Patriotism |
Gender Studies Prize | Emma | Bowers | Killara High School | Nothing but blue sky |
Belief Systems Prize | Josh | Pallas | Holy Spirit College Bellambi | Australia: Pontius Pilate or Prodigal Son of the Roman Catholic Church? |
Reconcilliation Prize | Alison | Ryan | St Mary’s Senior High School | An analysis of the social significance of contemporary art |
Continuity & Change Prize | Kerana Sadaf | Hakimi | Macarthur Girls’ High School | Afghan Girls Gone Wild |
Personal Experience Prize | Alix | Pearce | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Through the porthole |
Humanitarian Prize | Rebecca | Greenwood | Merewether High School | Madman, mercenary or missionary? |
Community Prize | Matthew | Bamford | St Mary’s Cathedral School | Trouble in the burbs |
Work & Leisure Prize | Benjamin | Cannon | Knox Grammar School | The Grass Ceiling |
Popular Culture Prize | Emily | Smith | Gosford High School | Causes without a Rebel |
Equality & Difference Prize | Bess | Rossiter | St Mary’s Senior High School | I’m not racist; I’m just funny |
High Distinction | Melissa | Ong | Hornsby Girls High School | Tongue Tied |
High Distinction | Kristin | Renzenbrink | Willoughby Girls High School | Censoring the Australian Way |
High Distinction | Lauren | Carmichael | St Andrew’s Cathedral School | I am woman… hear me whisper |
High Distinction | Angela | Bennett | Gosford High School | Giving up |
High Distinction | Jemma | Cartland | Gosford High School | Deutschland: Über Alles |
High Distinction | Stephanie | Mason | Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College | Is foreign aid perpetuating ‘race’? |
Distinction | Benjamin | Strum | Emmanuel School | Victim to Victor: The Holocaust and Jewish Identity |
Distinction | Rachel | Sandeman | Willoughby Girls’ High School | All Quiet on the Feminist Front |
Distinction | Emily | O’Keefe | Hornsby Girls’ High School | Nursing a Prejudice |
Distinction | Sarah | Marshall | Albury High School | No Pretentious Accent Mate |
Distinction | Srishti | Shrestha | Penrith High School | Third Culture Kid: Living the best of both Worlds |
Distinction | Hina Rashid | Khan | Hornsby Girls High School | I’m getting married? |
Distinction | Prianca | Moodley | Lucas Heights Community School | Give me a home among the gum trees, with lots of… Visa E’s? |
Distinction | Sarah | Gorji | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Retail Therapy |
Distinction | Claire | Jewell | St Mary’s Senior High School | Understanding Y |
Distinction | Sophia | Fowler | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Stop Press – the assault on journalism |
Distinction | Marwa | Rahimi | Macarthur Girls’ High School | The Hyphenated Afghan |
Distinction | Lara | Munn | St Ursula’s College | I am Woman hear me Raunch |
Distinction | Chamitha | Weerasinghe | Hornsby Girls’ High School | Who Gives? |
Distinction | Sophie | Newall | Willoughby Girls’ High School | Having a laugh with blondes, bleaches and barbies |
Distinction | Bohdi | Connor | Hornsby Girls’ High School | Family First, but what next? |
Distinction | Jaya | Keaney | North Sydney Girls’ High School | Lipsticks, Dykes and Viewing (Dis)pleasure |
Distinction | Lucinda | Mowat | Hornsby Girls’ High School | The Generational Firewall |
Distinction | Asher | Waxman | Emanuel School | You only live twice |
Distinction | Chloe | Watson | Willoughby Girls’ High School | F.E.A.R – False Evidence Appearing Real |
Distinction | Natalee | Davis | St Mary Star of the Sea College | A Muggles Guide to: Harry Potter and Society |
Distinction | Kirsty | MacGregor | Camden High School | Till death us do part? |
Distinction | Sujee | Kim | North Sydney Girls’ High School | Micro-Chip off the old block |
2008 Results
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TOP 10 STUDENTS
Rank | Name | School | |
Eq 1 | Sorcha | McGee | St Marys Senior HIgh School |
Eq 1 | Daniel | Swain | Smith’s Hill High School |
3 | Emily | Reynolds | Gosford High School |
4 | Tamara | Al Hashemi | St Marys Senior High School |
5 | Mary | Go | All Saints Catholic Senior College |
6 | Samuel | Lewin | Merewether High School |
7 | Elizabeth | Penning | Domremy College |
8 | Stephanie | Lukins | Burwood Girls High School |
Eq 9 | Georgina | Girdler | Kooringal High School |
Eq 9 | Alexandra | Peters | North Sydney Girls High School |
PIP AWARDS AND PRIZES
Category | Name | School | Project Title | |
HD & The President’s Prize | Jessica | McDonell | Willoughby Girls High School | Torture-tainment |
HD & Studies of Asia Prize | Jenny | Yu Xi Song | Hornsby Girls High School | Chinese Dundee: Racialisation and Chinese-Australian Identities |
HD & Popular Culture Prize | Patrick | Girdler | Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay Campus | Don’t Be Scared It’s Only Street Art: An Investigation into street art culture, its legality and its art |
HD & Gender Studies Prize | Lauren | Oldfield | Lurnea High School | Look-Out Feminism: The Relationship between Aboriginal Women and Feminism |
HD & Reconciliation Prize | Natalie | Keech | St Clare’s High School | ‘What is the Ness?’ The Realization, Deconstruction and Re-Articulation of Whiteness |
HD & Civics & Citizenship Prize | Alexandra | Peters | North Sydney Girls High School | Activism or Apathy? A cross-generational investigation into how and why student activism has changed over the last four decades. |
HD & Equality and Difference Prize | Jemima | Stratton | Hornsby Girls High School | Open Wide, Come Inside … Australia: Play School as a Reflection of Wider Australian Society |
HD & Belief Systems Prize | Catherine | Eggett | Hornsby Girls High School | How the Birredoow Found its Way: An Investigation into the Relevance of Dreamtime Stories for Modern Indigenous Youth |
HD & Work & Leisure Prize | Carley | Rowland | Calrossy Anglican School | The Driving Force Behind the Driving Force: How, and to what Extent do Parents and Peers Impact on the Psychological Behaviour of Individuals Regarding Sports Performance |
High Distinction | Emily | Reynolds | Gosford High School | Don’t Think Twice, it’s All Right: From Activism to Apathy. The Decline in the popularity of protest songs since the 1960s. |
High Distinction | Amanda | Liu | All Saints Catholic Senior College | PIP Personal Interest Project or Pushy Immigrant Parents |
High Distinction | Megan | Williams-Thompson | Hornsby Girls High School | The Australian One-Child Policy: Investigating the Significance of Socialisation Factors Unique to Only Children in Shaping Identity. |
High Distinction | Hannah | Smyth | Willoughby Girls High School | Baa Baa Politically Correct Sheep: The Intent, Extent and Effect of Political Correctness in Children’s Media |
Distinction | Lauren | Goodson | St Marys Senior High School | Local Political Participation: A Cross Cultural Comparison between Generations Within Local Political Participation |
Distinction | Benita | Laylim | St Marys Senior High School | You Can’t Touch This |
Distinction | Tamara | Al Hashemi | St Marys Senior High School | Extrapolating the Future of Politics: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Muslim Women and their Career Prospects in Contemporary Australian Politics |
Distinction | Georgia | Murphy-Haste | Willoughby Girls High School | Chasing the Line: Freedom or Treason |
Distinction | Razak | Akunyare | Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay Campus | The Only African in the Village |
Distinction | Barbara | Vallejos | Macarthur Girls High School | Influence of Machismo on the Formation of Gender Identity |
Distinction | Laura | Cole | Elderslie High School | Explosive Reactions: Dying to Kill. A study into Female Suicide Bombers |
Distinction | Claire | Herms | Hunter School of the Performing Arts | ‘Low Tide’ an Exploration of Third Wave Feminism |
Distinction | David | Wojtysiak | All Saints Catholic Senior College | Manipulation, Media and Muslims: How has xenophobia been heightened as a result of Media portrayal of Muslims in Australian Society? |
Distinction | Rebecca | May | Hornsby Girls High School | Back Row, Centre: An exploration of the socialisation of tall women. A continuity or a change? |
Distinction | Munna | Salekin | Macarthur Girls High School | Business Manager to Bus Driver: Status Depreciation Among Migrant Males from the Subcontinent – the Effects on Family and Identity |
2007 Results
TOP 10 STUDENTS
Rank | Name | School |
1 | Anna Gudkov | Hornsby Girls High School |
2 | Eugenia Baydikova | Hornsby Girls High School |
3 | Hilary Algert | Hornsby Girls High School |
4 | Vivianne Schwarz | Hornsby Girls High School |
5 | Leah Munk | Rose Bay Secondary College |
6 | Holly Lawson | Merewether High School |
7 | Daniela Cayetano | Kogarah High School |
8 | Michael Cox | Lucas Heights Community School |
Eq 9 | Ashleigh Bierton | St Marys Senior High School |
Eq 9 | Jessica Zeng | Chester Hill High School |
PIP AWARDS AND PRIZES
Category | Name | School | Project Title |
HD & Civics and Citizenship Prize | Belinda Wong | Hornsby Girls High School | The “Reffo” Proof Fence. |
HD & Reconciliation Prize | Ellen Collier | St Columba’s Springwood | Two Rivers, One Course. |
HD & Studies of Asia Prize | Frances Chen | North Sydney Girls High School | Making a Splash in the Global Pool. |
HD & Equality & Difference Prize | Catherine McPherson | Hornsby Girls High School | Growing Up Straight. |
HD & Gender Studies Prize | Martene Gelle | Macarthur Girls High School | You Want Me to Do the Washing Up Too? |
HD & Popular Culture Prize | Lara Mansfield | Merewether High School | I like My Beer Cold, My TV Loud and My Homosexuals Flaming. |
HD & The President’s Prize | Louis Tintner | Blackwattle Bay Campus | The Big Issue |
High Distinction | Eugenia Baydikova | Hornsby Girls High School | Lost in Translation. |
High Distinction | Talia Hoffman | Emanuel School | Is Authority a Good Servant or a Poor Master? |
High Distinction | Anna Gudkov | Hornsby Girls High School | Opening a Matrioshka Doll… Which One Am I? |
Distinction | Miriam Sambell | Willoughby Girls High School | Health as a new religion. |
Distinction | Michael Cox | Lucas Heights Community School | Poor Deluded Me. |
Distinction | Angela Ryan | Temora High School | “O Brethren, Where Art Thou?” |
Distinction | Joanna Lowry | Hornsby Girls High School | Stitches in Time. |
Distinction | Vivianne Schwarz | Hornsby Girls High School | “Home Is Where the Heart Is” |
Distinction | Sousan Ghecham | Kogarah High School | “Kiblah Crag” |
Distinction | Susanna Chen | Cheltenham Girls High School | Australian Citizenship: Is It More Than Just a Ceremony? |
Distinction | Amarlie Foster | Willoughby Girls High School | a/political playground. |
Distinction | Nicole Paton | Bellingen High School | Vote 1: Fear. |
2006 Results
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TOP 10 STUDENTS
Rank | Name | School |
1 | Camilla Townsend | Chevalier College |
2 | Angela Evans | Smith’s Hill High School |
3 | Katie Boulton | Merewether High School |
4 | Clare Calderwood | St Marys Senior High School |
5 | Tennille Ferguson-Brown | Gosford High School |
6 | Amelia Goodson | St Marys Senior High School |
7 | Alanna Harper | Colo High School |
8 | Archana George | Hornsby Girls High School |
9 | Helen Dziedzic | Hornsby Girls High School |
10 | Cassandra Duncan | St Marys Senior High School |
PIP AWARDS AND PRIZES
Category | Name | School | Project Title – Click the links to read extracts from these meritorious PIPs |
High Distinction & Civics and Citizenship Award | Kathleen Konkol | Manly Selective Campus | Save Lives: Recycle Yourself. A Study of Social Attitudes Towards Organ Donation |
High Distinction & Reconciliation Award | Samuel Cook | Penrith High School | Losing Your Voice: The Loss Of Aboriginal Language |
High Distinction & Studies of Asia Award | Amy Huynh | Smith’s Hill High School | Banana Split |
High Distinction & Equality & Difference Award | Miriam Gardiner | Tamworth Anglican | Education: The Great Divide |
High Distinction & Gender Studies Award | Morgan Benson-Taylor | Rose Bay Secondary College | Watch Out Superman, She’s Back! |
High Distinction & Popular Culture Award | Angelana Dang | Macquarie Fields High School | Dolly See, Dolly Do: Examination of Popular Culture of ‘Bratz’ dolls – their influences on a person’s identity and the implications for society |
High Distinction & Belief Systems Award | Jakob Campbell | Bellingen High School | Can Society Function Without Religion? |
High Distinction & the President’s Award | Clare Calderwood | St Marys Senior High School | Climbing the ladder as fast as it grows |
High Distinction | Ernie Lissa Capangpangan | Magdalene Catholic High School | Talk To The Hand |
High Distinction | Katie Boulton | Merewether High School | Working At Retirement: An investigation into the social preparation for a successful withdrawal from work |
High Distinction | Inna Sidorova | Rose Bay Secondary College | PIP-Nuptial |
High Distinction | Dexter Atienza | St Marys Senior High School | A Socio-cultural analysis of the portrayal of Asian women in western films |
High Distinction | Andrew Moon | Albury High School | At the end of the trail: The impact of the Kokoda Trail on the development of identity |
High Distinction | But-Elle Hatooka | Rose Bay Secondary College | The Men of Tomorrow |
High Distinction | Helen Dziedzic | Hornsby Girls High School | “Jew-ishâ€- How does the uncovering of Jewish hereditary impact upon an individual’s sense of self identity? |
High Distinction | Emily Cheng | Hornsby Girls High School | Out of the frying pan and into the fire: The acculturation experience of Sudanese Refugees in NSW |
Distinction | Kaitlin Tinker | North Sydney Girls High School | Hubby, I’m Home: Exploring the phenomenon of house husbands |
Distinction | Amanda Ryan | Woonona High School | Teenage Lemmings: Conformity vs The Individual. A study of Conformity in Australia and Japan |
Distinction | Adriana Amato | Great Lakes High School (Tuncurry Senior Campus) | Me, my phone and I |
Distinction | Charlotte Buckton | Hunter School of Performing Arts | Sex In the Ditty: An exploration into the representation of female sexuality in popular music videos |
Distinction | Cassandra Duncan | St Marys Senior High School | The Polarisation: Assimilation vs Multiculturalism |
Distinction | Isabella Macneil | Central Coast Grammar | When I grow up, I want to b… |
Distinction | Elisabeth Murray | Killara High School | Hidden from sight in the lucky country? Perceptions of child poverty by the Sydney community |
Distinction | Amanda Wood | Carlingford High School | Boy, oh boy. We have a problem |
Distinction | Christine Lam | Macquarie Fields High School | Is Alternative Music, “Music for Males?†What is the relationship between gender and music? |
Distinction | Georgina Willcock | Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College | The SHAM that could challenge Maslow |
Distinction | Trent Fuller | Merewether High School | Taking the Piss: A study of political satire as an agent of socialisation |
Distinction | Amelia Goodson | St Marys Senior High School | Career Paralysis |
2005 Results
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TOP 10 STUDENTS
Rank | Student Name | School |
1 | Francesca Sidoti | St Columba’s Springwood |
2 | Jace Armstrong | Kiama High School |
3 | Catherine Pennington | Hornsby Girls High School |
4 | Sarah Judd | Hornsby Girls High School |
Equal 5 | Sarah Kelshaw | Sydney Distance Education High School |
Equal 5 | Claire Sellwood | Caringbah High School |
7 | Fatima Malik | St Marys Senior High School |
8 | Kate Thomson | Merewether High School |
9 | Celeste White | Masada College |
10 | Kurt Bugden | Mitchell High School |
PIP AWARDS AND PRIZES
Category | Student Name | School | Project Title – Click the links to read extracts from these meritorious PIPs |
Reconciliation | Monica Blain | Narara Valley High School | Define and Divide. Do We Define Who we are by who the Other is? |
Gender Studies | Kurt Bugden | Mitchell High School | Manufacturing Masculinity. |
Civics and Citizenship | Ausseela Thanaphongsakorn | Burwood Girls High School | Danger: Postmodernism Doesn’t Give a Flying Duck. |
Popular Culture | Francesca Sidoti | St Columba’s Springwood | “Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation” Is There a Song that Defines Generation Y? |
Belief Systems | Amelia Marshall | Baulkham Hills High School | The Hillsong Phenomenon. |
Studies of Asia | Amali Seneviratne | Cheltenham Girls HS | Curries, Coconuts, And Bananas. What Type Of Asian Are You? |
Equality & Difference | Elise Bogart | St Marys Senior High School | Blaming The Victim. The Generation And Maintenance Of Inequality In Contemporary Australian Society. |
The President’s Prize | Bethany Allsopp | Chevalier College | The Role Of Institutional Factors in the Making of a Man. |
High Distinction | Jace Armstrong | Kiama High School | Moisturizing Masculinity |
High Distinction | Jacqueline Dahl-Speck | Cheltenham Girls HS | The Rabbit Proof Fence: Barriers to Reconciliation. |
High Distinction | Elaine Francisco | Tyndale Christian School | Finding Mr Darcy |
High Distinction | Calliste Weitenberg | Hunter School of Performing Arts | Anchor-Lady: The Role of Females in TV Journalism |
High Distinction | Fatima Malik | St Marys Senior High School | A Clash of Civilisations? |
High Distinction | Marion Simmonds | Cheltenham Girls HS | The Adultification of Children and the Emergence of Tweens: An Investigation of Postman’s Hypothesis |
High Distinction | Ai Ikeda | Rose Bay Secondary College | SexedOut? An Investigation into the Impacts of Modernity on the Scoial construction of Individual Sexual Identity |
High Distinction | Rose Matijevic | Mitchell High School | Fat or Fiction: You decide… or Do You? |
High Distinction | Kim Leontiev | Rose Bay Secondary College | X-Men. A Critical Examination of Codes of Masculinity |
High Distinction | Kate Thomson | Merewether High School | Apathy or Cynicism? Australian Young People and Political Participation |
High Distinction | Khapil Narula | Epping Boys High School | School and Belonging. Do Stereotypical Identities Define a Male Student’s Sense of Belonging to his School? |
High Distinction | Alysha Casey | Central Coast Grammar | Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me. An investigation into the Effects of Alienation from an Adolescent Peer Group on Identity Formation. |
High Distinction | Deahne Pinto | Bradfield College | Pentecostalism: Religion of the 21st Century? |
High Distinction | Catherine Pennington | Hornsby Girls High School | The Times they are a-Changing |
High Distinction | Elizabeth Hearn | Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College | Shaping Society. The Power relationship between Media, the Government and the Public |
Distinction | Marina Shu | Cheltenham Girls HS | Power of One: Does Growing Up with or without Siblings significantly affect the way a Person Competes with Others |
Distinction | Catherine Simmons | Caringbah High School | The Christmas Tug of War |
Distinction | Brooke Delbridge | Merewether High School | From Number 96 to Queer Eye. Homosexual Stereotypes on Australian Television |
Distinction | Dana McMullen | Gosford High School | The Playschool Syndrome |
Distinction | Mia Pinjuh | Caringbah High School | And My Crush Say Everything. Gender Difference in Adolescent Embarrassing Moments |
Distinction | Penny Marriott | All Saints (St Mary’s) | The Portrayal of Gender Roles and Housework in the Australian Women’s Weekly from the 60s and the Present |
Distinction | Joanna-Nel Cubelo | St Marys Senior High School | Is there Life after Divorce? |
Distinction | James Braithwaite | St Marys Senior High School | Do Muscles Have Gender? |
Distinction | Leah Manago | St Marys Senior High School | Globalisation and its Adverse affects on the Poor |
Distinction | Ingrid van Woerkom | Baulkham Hills High School | 21st century Hajj |
Distinction | Angela Lee | Hornsby Girls High School | Totally Cool |
Distinction | Leanne Cook | Mullumbimby High School | Chance Made Us Sisters Hearts Made Us Friends |
Distinction | Benita Chudleigh | Mullumbimby High School | Those Who’ve Come Across The Seas |
Distinction | Thomas Mesker | Mosman High School | When the Glass is Empty. A Look at Fathers and Their Sons? |
Distinction | Rachelle O’Donnell | Wollongong High School of Performing Arts | They Who Give and Those Who Get are Alike Blessed |
2004 Results
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TOP 10 STUDENTS
Rank | Student Name | School |
1 | Lauren Miller | Hornsby Girls High School |
2 | Medeleine Fraser | Santa Sabina College |
3 | Derrick Gee | Epping Boys High School |
Equal 4 | Lachlan Hodgson | Macarthur Anglican College (Cobbity Campus) |
Equal 4 | Katrina Symonds | Reddam House (Bondi Campus) |
Equal 4 | Tais Topal Silva | Macarthur Girls High School |
7 | Kapil Bazil | Epping Boys High School |
8 | Jessica Chung | North Sydney Girls High School |
9 | Claire Cullen | Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College |
10 | Georgia Snow | Emanuel School |
PIP AWARDS AND PRIZES
Category | Student Name | School | Project Title |
Gender Prize | Rosa Campbell | Burwood Girls High School | The F-Word: An investigation in the status of Feminism among young women 16-19 |
Popular Culture Prize | Tara Buddhipala | Cheltenham Girls High School | Planet Bollywood. An investigation of the changing nature of Bollywood and its reflection and influence upon the Indian community in Australia and India. |
President’s Prize | Georgia Snow | Emanuel School | Is Authority Gender based? |
Reconciliation Prize. | Lachlan Hodgson | Macarthur Anglican College (Cobbity Campus) | The over-representation of Indigenous youth in the juvenile justice system: A colonial legacy. |
Gender Prize | Anita Lazar | Mary MacKillop College | The PIMP/HO relationship |
Asia Prize | Michelle Lan | North Sydney Girls HS | Between the Chopsticks and the Fork |
Civics and Citizenship | Elizabeth Lancaster | Oxford Falls Grammar School | Control the past; control the future. |
Belief Systems Prize. | Christopher Hellmundt | Wollongong HS of Performing Arts | Tibetan Buddhism- A Powerful Philosophy or a popular culture? |
High Distinction | Christine Cattley | Greystanes HS | “To serve and protect”. Analysis of how and why the representation of women on Australian television has changed over time, as reflected in police dramas. |
High Distinction | Ilana Levi | Moriah College | From one generation to the next. An investigation into the nature of the socialization process of daughters within the Jewish Australian family structure. |
High Distinction | Byron Kemp | Keira Technology HS | Teenage Testosterone in training |
High Distinction | Kate Spies | Engadine HS | “Whats the goss on gossip?”” The social function of gossip. |
High Distinction | Kapil Bazil | Epping Boys HS | Tongues in a twist. |
High Distinction | Lauren Miller | Hornsby Girls HS | Splitting the difference. The influence of age, gender and twin type on a twins’ social experience leading to their sense of identity. |
High Distinction | Melissa Polovin | Moriah College | “Once upon atime I fell in Love… and we lived happily ever after”. A case study of romantic lover over time. |
High Distinction | Jamila Solomon | Emanuel School | “Where’s the love? the fine line between, love children and bastards. |
High Distinction | Emma Purdon | Whitebridge HS | Cyber bullying |
Distinction | Liza Khatchadourian | Mary MacKillop College | Behind Bars: Women in NSW’s prisons. |
Distinction | Claudia Milunsky | Moriah College | Liar! Liar! Pains on Fire! |
Distinction | Cissie Chang Cheng | Hornsby Girls HS | Names and the naming practice in Chinese culture. |
Distinction | Tevvi Bullock | Merewether HS | “Those Magic Words” the sacrificing of true emotion. |
Distinction | Gabrielle Rein | Emanuel School | “The Lying Game” is lying the value consensus of our society? |
Distinction | Samuel Foy | Chevalier College | To what degree do political cartoons represent the views of society? |
Distinction | Rebecca Dalliwall | Santa Sabina College | Political correctness and the school curriculum. |
Distinction | Alison King | Cheltenham Girls HS | When East meets West… |
Distinction | Moana Barroso | Carlingford HS | “The Voice of the drum connects the wandering soul to their roots.” Uruguayan immigrants use their traditional music as a form of social security and cohesion. |
Distinction | Joanna Jodeh | Parramatta HS | Falling madly out of love with marriage. A study of the changes of attitudes of westernized, educated and non educated women towards marriage. |
Distinction | Zoe Adams | Macquarie Fields HS | Position vacant: Lion tamers wanted for boys education, gender theories and boys at school. |
Distinction | Kate Ralph | Melville HS | The issue is not black and white – are aboriginal students failing school or is school failing them? |
Distinction | Mary Calleja | Smith’s Hill HS | Life without Daddy… |
Distinction | Claire Scott | Springwood HS | We are what we talk. |
Distinction | Alison Batt | St Joseph’s Catholic College | Black Australia |
Distinction | Sasha Bullivant | Gilroy College | E-raced. |