Video: The End – My closing speech as 2013 Claremont College, Girl School Captain
2013 was an amazing year for me. I was blessed with so many opportunities from a great school and great teachers. Along with my fellow students, we learnt, laughed and grew. As the girl School Captain, I was proud to be able to lead Claremont College, alongside with super sporty Finn Tanish. It was easy…
Video: Wi-Fi – An invention that has changed the world
My video is about the Australian inventors of Wi-Fi and their legal struggle against the IT giants of the world. Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Intel, HP, Toshiba, Netgear, ASUS, Fujitsu, Nintendo and more. I included part of my interviews with the Wi-Fi inventors, Dr John O’Sullivan and Dr Terry Percival. This is my final primary school…
Video: Top 5 Most Evil People to Ever Live
I made this video for a school assignment last term. Unfortunately I was not allowed to show it to my year 6 class mates. I think my teacher gave it an R rating :-). Next time I will keep to a G. School this year has been great. I have learnt about Adolf Hitler and…
Poem: From Despair…
I have entered my second poem contest called ‘Sydney Youth Writing Competition‘. There is only one primary rule. You need to include one of these words: Light, Fly or Creek. Last year I entered a poem called ‘In the Ocean’s arms‘ and although it was only my first writing competition, I won my age group which…
Photography: A reflection on my Favourite Cameras
While producing my first photography album “Droplets of Life” I have learnt more than I expected about cameras and what they can achieve. Your best photos don’t always come from the most expensive cameras. I used five cameras and it became somewhat confusing trying to collect all the photos. I have looked back over the…
Send a tweet to your local Member of Parliament
For my Year 6 homework I was asked to write a letter to my local member of parliament, about an issue that I care about. I started writing a letter to my local member who is Peter Garrett AM MP. I told my mum that I had found out that Mr Garrett is also the…
My First Photography Album “Droplets of Life”
I am thrilled to have completed my first photography album “Droplets of Life”. This has been a lot of hard work, but I am happy with the end result.
Photography is the art of capturing a moment with a camera. Mastering the camera settings, so it can tell the story of the photo in the best possible way. It is then back at the computer to triage the thousands of photos, to a final few. Finally it is hours toiling at the computer letting your imagination go wild in Photoshop.
Gun Control in Australia
In our beach side suburb Coogee, a hot topic at our local RSL club is whether we should relax our footwear policies to allow the commonly worn ‘thongs’. That is a long way from gun control, which is the hot topic right now in America. As a result of the latest massacre in Newtown Connecticut,…
My School Captain Feet Washing Induction Ceremony
At the end of last year, a few children from my school were selected to do a School Captains speech, an opportunity to explain why they would make a great school captain.
I was lucky enough to be among the 12 children selected to give this speech. I spent a lot of time preparing a speech to be given in front of the whole school, hoping that everyone would like it. By the time the day came to deliver my speech, I was nervous but relieved because I knew exactly what I wanted to say and was confident enough to make my speech without palm cards to prompt me.
Three Key Elements of Building an Awesome Documentary
I really enjoyed watching Mega Builders “Episode 23: Floating Bridge” about a bridge in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. This is a documentary about how engineers had to build a bridge in the most difficult way. They had to build a floating bridge called the “William R. Bennett Bridge” to replace the old “Okanagan Lake Bridge”.…
