Achieving Alumni
Congratulations to Jack Cambouris (ON 2018) who was named the VET in Schools Student of the Year at the TAFE NSW Excellence awards yesterday in recognition of his outstanding academic efforts. At Newington, Jack completed a Certificate III in Accounts Administration at TAFE NSW while studying his HSC (TVET).
Congratulations Cameron Murray (ON 2015) on your State of Origin selection.
Kelvin Du (ON 2018) has been selected for the 2019 STANSW Young Scientist ISEF Team for his project ’Tru Alert: A Smoke Alarm with Stream Sense Technology’ investigating humidity related nuisance alarms in smoke detectors.
This month, Kelvin will travel to Phoenix to represent NSW and Australia at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
Kelvin investigated the effect of higher humidity levels on smoke alarm triggering and found that the alarms were indeed more sensitive in the presence of water vapour. Using a simulation software and designed prototype, he was able to conclude that the issue of false alarms could be reduced by comparing the signal from the smoke alarm and the humidity sensor, while still triggering in the case of an actual fire.
Newly crowned Australian Super Welterweight Champion is our very own Tim Tszyu (ON 2012).
To read about Tom Nash (ON 2000) Sydney Ted Talk, click here.
Reed Nottage (ON 2018), has just recently accepted an offer of a full Basketball Scholarship to California Baptist University (CBU) a Division 1 NCAA College.
Reed departed for the USA on 30 May to start training and commence his summer school classes where he will be studying Economics and International Business and will then return for several weeks to tour Australia with his new team July/August playing against our NBL teams Sydney Kings, Melbourne United, Perth Wildcats and Brisbane Bullets. He will then take a short break at home and return to College at the end of August.
Congratulations Nathan Lawson (ON 2016) and Angus Bell (ON 2018) for their success in the Junior Wallabies squad at the Oceania U20s.
In April, David Purser (ON 1978) reached Mount Everest base camp.
Bravo Chris McDonald (ON 2008), he has just graduated with a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Technology Sydney. He also holds a Bachelor of Design in Architecture from UTS.
He chose to study the creative writing masters simply because he loves writing and hopes to be a published author one day. In the meantime, he is currently working in the Communications department of the State Transit Authority.
New beginnings for Dr Don Weatherburn (ON 1969) as he leaves his post as the director of the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR). Click here to read more.
Making Connections
In March, the Alumni Office received a call from John Cartwright (ON 1986) wanting to be put in touch with John Treloar (ON 1970) as he had a model of the Dog on the Tucker Box that was made by the Company founded by John Treloar’s Grandfather and then managed by his Father.
Here are John Cartwright’s words from the connection: ‘Thank you for helping me get in contact with John – I had been trying to do find a way to do so for a while, and only on the day I contacted you did I come across an article John wrote for the Alumni news, about cakes.’
Here is the image of John Treloar with the Dog on the Tucker Box model.
