Geography students from Mudgee High School tested their skills and knowledge against students from all around the country in the 2019 Australian Geography Competition.
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"We have a number of student geographers at our school who performed to a very high level in the competition this year with one student in the top two per cent in their year level across Australia, three gaining high distinctions, four distinctions, and five credits," Claire Windeyer, geography teacher, said.
"Over 73,500 students from 792 schools across Australia entered the Australian Geography Competition so the results give us an external benchmark as to how our students are going in certain aspects of geography."
Some particular achievements to be noted include, Ethan Reinhard and Connor McNeill achieving Distinctions placing in the top 20 per cent of the country. Alexis Gaffney and Manning Blackman achieving High Distinctions and placing in the top eight per cent. And an outstanding achievement by Ethan Blamire, who gained a High Distinction and placed in the top two per cent of Australia.
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"The competition aims to encourage interrelationships between people and place," Bernard Fitzpatrick, the competition's national coordinator, said.
"It helps students appreciate the complex nature of local, regional and global social, economic, and environmental interactions."
High-achieving Year 11 students from the 2019 competition will take part in a training/selection event, Geography's Big Week Out, to be held on Kangaroo Island, South Australia in early December.
From there, four students will be chosen as members of the team which will represent Australia at the 2020 International Geography Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey.
Funding to support the Geography's Big Week Out and the Australian Team to the International Geography Olympiad is provided by the Australian Department of Education and Training.
The competition is a joint initiative of the Australian Geography Teachers' Association, the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland, and in New South Wales it is sponsored by Macquarie University.
