Celebrating our top achievers

We’ve once again celebrated our high-achieving students at an Excellent Scholars Awards Ceremony.

This week’s ceremony was a little different to past events. As well as recognising the students who earned top grades in the previous study block, we celebrated students who stood out for other reasons, including academic improvement and research excellence.

Applied Management Head of Department Russell Harray spoke about what made an excellent student, at Monday’s ceremony.

He said awards recipients had shown active engagement in and out of the classroom, taken responsibility for their own learning, been motivated, and had a passion for learning.

Our top students had also been flexible and adjusted well to external circumstances.

Monday’s ceremony was attended by students within New Zealand and offshore, as well as staff.

Our Excellent Scholars were Chenlong Xu (Jager), Xiaowen Zhu (Sarah), Shen Yue, Yang Liu, Palak Sharma, Kazuhisa Kondo, Wasara Kasunjith Withanage Don, Thu Than Pham, and Valeria Kuznetsova.

Jiaxin Yu received the award for best Internship Project, and our special awards went to Yuyue Zhou, Erica Novianti, Sina Eslamboli, Vladimir Denisenko, and Yindi Fu.