Lucas Zhou

• DaVinci Decathlon, 2023-01-01, Present, Member of the current DaVinci decathlon team.
• Mock Trial Team, 2025-06-01, Present, A team of 6 per year group from Years 10-11. Compete against other schools in legal civil/criminal matters in a mock format with official judges.
• Mentoring, 2025-01-01, Present, Weekly mentoring session with a Year 7 buddy.
• SHORE Weekly Record, 2025-01-01, Present, Editor and Writer in the school newspaper.
• HPL, 2024-01-01, Present, High Potential Learners course for the 12 brightest students per year group, competing in external competitions and undergoing external training/programs.
• Computational Linguistics Team, 2022-02-01, Present, Most recently in the B team, with teams of four people spanning Years 7-12. Currently Year 10 top performer record.
• Debating ISDA/GPS A Team, 2021-01-01, Present, Highest competitive team offered for year groups. Stayed in the school's highest year grade from Year 6 to Year 10.
• A's Football Team, 2020-02-01, Present, Consistent A's soccer player representing respective schools from Years 5-10. Played in the B's for half of Year 6-7 season. Temporary B's Captain Year 8.
• Newspaper Article Writer, 2025-01-01, 2025-01-01, Wrote an article for Hicksons Hunt & Hunt Law Firm Weekly Newspaper Fri-Up.
• Cadets, 2024-02-01, 2024-11-30, School cadet unit, attending three camps all spanning four-five days and weekly trainings/exams.
• School Choir, 2020-02-01, 2024-04-30, Tenor in respective school choirs.
• Orchestra, 2020-02-01, 2024-04-30, 2nd/3rd chair Cello from Year 5 to start of Year 9.
• Junior As Chess Team, 2023-02-01, 2023-11-30, Reached semi-finals in GPS chess competition sitting as Board 2 of 4 (second best).
• Maffey Strings, 2021-02-01, 2021-11-30, Highest string ensemble provided by the school. 2nd desk cellist.
• RJ LEE Singers, 2020-02-01, 2021-11-30, Highest choir available in the school. Soprano.

Written over 200 Creative Writing Pieces.

Completed exemplary historical essay on the Berlin Wall (1000 words).

• Best Delegate Model UN, 2025-10-01, Received Best Delegate among 12 other teams competing in Model UN representing Canada in teams of 2.
• AMEB CMus certificate for piano.
• Computational Linguistics 1st place, 2025, Internal School Winter linguistics competition running over 10 rounds in teams of two.
• Participation in Design Thinking, 2024-11-01, New Tech Networks Certificate in Design Thinking where students were put in groups of three and forced to both create and pitch an original product with a powerpoint and genuine homemade model limited to HPL participants.
• Participation in Oxford and Cambridge Debating Competitions, 2024, Teams of 2 competing in British Parliamentary formats.
• 2nd in History, 2024, Out of a cohort of 220 students.
• Secondary Schools Chess Competition JUNIOR GRADE DIVISION WINNERS, 2023-01-01, NDW Junior Chess League Winner.
• 3rd place in Science, 2023, Out of 220 boys.
• AMC Prize, 2022-11-01, Highest achievable award in the AMC math competition.
• APSMO Maths Olympiad Special Achievement, 2021
• 2nd in Year 6 Grammar academically.
• WMI(World Mathematics Invitational) Silver Medal, 2021,
• 2nd in History Elective, 2024
• Participation in UNSW Math Competition, 2021-22
• Lexor Maximus, 2022-24, Greatest reader in respective Year group. Consecutive winner Year 7, 8, 9.
• Awarded Grade 7 AMEB Certificate around Year 8 for
• 2nd in Math, 2022

• 2 days serving Broderick Gillawarna to help, assist and cater for mentally/physically disabled children.
• 2 days serving Baptist Care caring for the elderly.
• Volunteering in THE BIG ISSUE, The Salvation Army, Thread Together, Land Care and Rough Edges.