A group of Year 6 and 7 students from Dubbo's Central West Academy have taken home first place in a national academic competition at Bathurst recently.
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The da Vinci Decathlon is a national academic competition designed to challenge and stimulate the minds of school students.
It is designed to celebrate the academic gifts of Australian youth by providing a stimulating and challenging competition run in the spirit of an Olympic Decathlon.
The regional qualifying competition was held over April 3-4 between schools from the region including Kinross Wolaroi, Scots All Saints, Dubbo Public, Dubbo West Public School, St Mary's, Macquarie Anglican Grammar School and St John's College.
The Academy's Year 6 and 7 students brought home 14 strong placings.
The Year 6 Academy students placed first in Code Breaking, Ideation, Cartography, and Art and Poetry.
They also placed third in Science and Engineering
It was another strong result for the Year 7 Academy students who placed first in Ideation, Engineering, Code Breaking and General Knowledge
They also placed second in English, Creative Producers and Science and third in Cartography.
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Academy Principal Mandi Randell said while the school competed last year in the Hunter Valley Year 6 competition, this was their first at the Central West Regional Decathlon as it was the first time a central west division had been offered.
"I am really proud of how each of our two teams worked hard, gave their best, and worked together valuing each other's strengths and differences," she said.
"Dedication and teamwork enabled each team to gain a regional championship title. It is a really good thing for Dubbo to show that you do not need to go to an expensive boarding school to achieve academic excellence."
