In the final week of May boys in Years 7and 9 visited Knox College for a day of intellectual challenges and group cooperation known as the da Vinci Decathlon. This year, Newington entered a Year 7 team and a Year 9 team in the event, during which students from 50 schools worked in teams of eight on a number of tasks. Chess, Art and Poetry, Maths, Engineering, Creative Production, Science and General Knowledge were just some of the areas of competition.

The Newington Year 7 team came 1st in the Creative Producers section, with their performance of an advertisement for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Meanwhile, the Year 9 team came 2nd in the Art and Poetry section for their work on the theme of ‘flight’.

Year 7 Team (pictured below, left):
(Back Row L to R) Nicholas Peppercorn (7/PR), Sebastian Hodge (7/ME)
(Middle Row L to R) Winston Lin (7/FL), Jarrah Lindhout (7/KL), Mitchell Long (7/MA), Fin Casey (7/KL)
(Front Row L to R) David Charlton (7/MA), Kevin Qian (7/PR)

Year 9 Team (pictured below, right):
(Second Row L to R) Kenn Savvas (9/JN), Joshua Mathew (9/JN), Justin Tran (9/PR), Saahil Parekh (9/MO)
(First Row L to R) Justin Ting (9/JN), Jeremy Sreejayan (9/KL), Eric Sparkes (9/FL), Alex Iannuzzi (9/MO)