Friday, October 7, 2016

2017 iGeo Selection Day held in Wellington

On Monday 3rd October we hosted the 2017 iGeo Selection Day to select a team of four students to travel to Serbia. It was great to have 12 students from all around New Zealand attend the day. Students were selected to attend as they were the top entries in the NZBoGTs annual Year 12 essay competition. The day involved a range of written tests and a fieldwork exercise on the Wellington Waterfront.

Students selected to attend the day were:

Sarah
Hyne
Otumoetai College
Alfie
Richardson
John McGlashan
Dylan
Wilkie
Wanganui High School
Yan Hao
Tay
Burnside High School
Kaila
Robertson
Burnside High School
Shona
Mani
Rutherford College
Jamie
Struthers
Kerikeri High School
Libby
Inwood
Kerikeri High School
Samantha
Molloy
St Andrew's College
Jonny
Wispinski
Kings High School
Malachi
Buschl
Kings High School
Charlotte
Carter
Wellington East Girls' College
Reuben
Hill-Smith
Rongotai College


Students participated in field work along the Wellington Waterfront


We would like to thank all of the students for making the effort to come to Wellington for the iGeo Selection Day. We really enjoyed meeting all of them and thought that they showed exceptional geographic knowledge and were excellent representatives for your schools. We would also like to thank Wellington East Girls' College for hosting the event.

The team selected to travel to Serbia will be:

Jonty Wispinski - King’s High School
Libby Inwood - Kerikeri High School
Sarah Hyne - Otumoetai College
Yan Hao Tay - Burnside High School

We have also selected two non-travelling reserves:

Dylan Wilkie - Wanganui High School
Malachi Buschl - King’s High School

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