Students flock to Knox for da Vinci State Decathlon

This week we welcomed more than one thousand students from Years 5 to 11 from across New South Wales to participate in the State competition of the da Vinci Decathlon.

The Decathlon, which was created by Knox Grammar in 2005, celebrates the academic gifts of young people by providing a stimulating and challenging competition run in the spirit of an Olympic Decathlon.

From Tuesday to Thursday, and in teams of eight, students competed in ten disciplines based around the theme 'Utopia': engineering, mathematics and chess, code breaking, art and poetry, science, English, ideation, creative producers, cartography and legacy.

In between sessions, the students were kept entertained by Knox musicians and the antics of Leonardo da Vinci himself!

Congratulations to the overall winners of the Decathlon.

YEAR 5

Pymble Ladies' College

Sydney Grammar School St Ives Preparatory

Trinity Grammar Preparatory School

YEAR 6

Knox Grammar School

Sydney Grammar School St Ives Preparatory

Barker College

YEAR 7

James Ruse Agricultural High School

Knox Grammar School

Pymble Ladies' College

YEAR 8

James Ruse Agricultural High School

Pymble Ladies' College

Knox Grammar School

YEAR 9

Meriden School

James Ruse Agricultural High School

Pymble Ladies' College

YEAR 10

Pymble Ladies' College

James Ruse Agricultural High School

Illawarra Christian School

YEAR 11

Abbotsleigh

Pymble Ladies' College

Redlands

The national finals for Years 7-10 will be held at Knox Grammar School on Saturday 29 June. More information is available via the da Vinci website.