Top students, again

Academic prize winners return for more

Bianca Reynaud
Public relations assistant
Avondale College of Higher Education
Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia

Avondale College of Higher Education has affirmed its commitment to excellence by honouring its consistent achievers, several of who received multiple academic prizes this year.

Two education students, Nadia Peterson and Mark Singh, are recipients of the most prestigious prize, the Prize for Excellence. Avondale will name a nursing student as the third recipient during the valedictory service on the Sydney campus over graduation weekend. Mark also received the top prize for physical education students.

Receiving more money is triple prize winner Narkisska Spruce. The communication and the marketing major, a previous academic prize winner, won the top prize for Bachelor of Arts students plus other prizes in marketing and in radio production and public relations.

Another former prize winner, Amy Verhoeven, swept the business prizes, winning two of the five on offer, including the top prize.

Charlotte O’Neill is also a multiple winner of prizes for her work as a student of history and of Christian journalism within the School of Humanities and Creative Arts.

Charlotte’s colleague at student publication The Voice, Lara Campbell, won the Adventist Media Network Journalism Prize. Lara is the girlfriend of the previous winner, Josh Dye, who preceded her as Voice editor.

Sau Finau is the inaugural winner of the new Douglas Eliot Church Planting/Ministry Memorial Prize, while classmate Simon Gigliotti backed up his Clifford Anderson Ministry Prize from this past year with the Bill Marr Institute of Public Evangelism Prize, which he shared with Leticia Moreno.

The only prize given to students in the School of Science and Mathematics, the Magnusson, Draper and Thompson Bachelor of Science Prize, went to Joshua Page.

The appropriately named Esther Nurse received the top prize in nursing, the Sydney Adventist Hospital Academic Excellence Prize.

Links
Academic prizes photo album on Avondale College of Higher Education’s Facebook

Academic Prizes

Faculty of Arts and Theology
School of Humanities and Creative Arts

Adventist Media Network Digital Media Prize
Yvanna Phillips ($1000)

Adventist Media Network Journalism Prize
Lara Campbell ($1000)

Allen and Andrea Steele Huguenot History Prize
Charlotte O’Neill ($1000)

Avondale Conservatorium Alan and Yvonne Thrift Perpetual Shield for Musical Excellence
John Duncan ($1000)

Avondale Conservatorium David Clark Harmony and Composition Prize
Laura Hill ($500)

Avondale Conservatorium George Greer Memorial Academic Excellence Prize
Kent Sharp ($500)

Avondale Conservatorium Noel Clapham Memorial Prize
Larisa Miler ($500)

Adventist World Radio Prize in Radio Production and Public Relations
Narkisska Spruce ($1000)

W A Townend Christian Journalism Prize
Charlotte O’Neill ($500)

Willobee Floor Service Bachelor of Arts Prize
Narkisska Spruce ($1000)

 

School of Ministry and Theology

Arthur Ferch Prize for Greek Studies
Geoffrey Plewright ($1000)

Arthur Ferch Prize for Hebrew Studies
Jack Ryder and Jacob Ugljesa ($500 each)

Bill Marr Institute of Public Evangelism Prize
Simon Gigliotti and Leticia Moreno ($1000 each)

Clifford Anderson Ministry Prize
Sarah-Jane Riley and David Toogood ($1000 each)

Douglas Eliot Church Planting/Ministry Memorial Prize
Sau Finau ($1000)

Edna and Vern Heise Prize for Communication
Charissa Fong ($1000)

Graham Miller Memorial Prize for Youth Ministry
Odailson Fialho ($1000)

 

Faculty of Education, Business and Science
Avondale Business School

Asian Aid Marketing Excellence Prize
Narkisska Spruce ($500)

Asian Aid Marketing Internship Prize
Luke Thompson ($200)

Gail Valentine Memorial Prize for Human Resource Management
Ryan Andrews ($500 Avondale Bookshop gift voucher)

Professional Advantage Bachelor of Business Prize
Amy Verhoeven ($1000)

Ricoh Bachelor of Business (Accounting) Prize
Amy Verhoeven ($1000)

 

School of Education

Adventist Education Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) Prize
Jocelyn Craig-Bentley and Kristal Anderson ($1000 each)

Adventist Education Bachelor of Education (Primary) Prize
Tia Hobson ($1000)

Adventist Education Bachelor of Education (Secondary) Prize
Sarah Watts ($1000)

Barrett Primary Teacher’s Literacy Prize
Brittaney Cullen ($200)

ACHPER Tertiary Student Health and Physical Education Prize
Mark Singh ($500, certificate plus 12-month membership to Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation)

 

School of Science and Mathematics

Magnusson, Draper and Thompson Bachelor of Science Prize
Joshua Page ($1000)

 

Faculty of Nursing and Health

Sydney Adventist Hospital Academic Excellence Prize
Esther Nurse ($500 plus gold medallion)

Sydney Adventist Hospital Clinical Excellence Prize
Geena Rose Burton ($500 plus gold medallion)

Sydney Adventist Hospital Medical Nursing Excellence Prize
Hellen Bayeta ($250)

Sydney Adventist Hospital Surgical Nursing Excellence Prize
Belinda Whelan ($250)

Sydney Adventist Hospital Mental Health Nursing Excellence Prize
Led Hernandez ($250)

Faculty of Nursing and Health Prize for Consistent Effort and Accomplishment
Misha Thomson ($250)

 

Other

Adventist Development and Relief Agency Social Justice Prize
Trent Sperring ($500)

 

Prize for Excellence

Avondale Prize for Excellence, Lake Macquarie campus
Nadia Peterson ($1500)

Avondale Prize for Excellence, Lake Macquarie campus
Mark Singh ($1500)

Avondale Prize for Excellence, Sydney campus
Presented at valedictory service over graduation weekend ($1500)