MAC Success Stories
Here are some of the fantastic achievements of Mount Aspiring College's pupils and staff, past and present.
2018 NCEA Success
Last year's NCEA result are announced and compared with similar colleges.
Some great results by all involved.
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2018 Prizegiving Results
All the awards and their recipients are listed on this page. Congratulations to each and everyone and a special thanks to all the prize sponsors and scholarship providers.
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2017 NCEA Success
Last year's NCEA result are announced and compared with similar colleges.
Some great results by all involved.
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2017 Prizegiving Results
All the awards and their recipients are listed on this page. Congratulations to each and everyone and a special thanks to all the prize sponsors and scholarship providers.
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MAC Sofa Music
In celebration of New Zealand Music Month the music students from Mount Aspiring College took music out and about in Wanaka.
Click here to see the video they made
MAC Athletics and Swimming Records
For all time records in Mount Aspiring College sporting archives for swimming and athletics have a look at this.
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2016 NCEA Success
Last year's NCEA result are announced and compared with similar colleges.
Some great results by all involved.
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2016 Prizegiving Results
All the awards and their recipients are listed on this page. Congratulations to each and everyone and a special thanks to all the prize sponsors and scholarship providers.
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2016 World Vision Silver Award
In acknowledgement of our outstanding contribution this year (as in other years) in the 40 Hour Famine MAC has been awarded the World Vision Silver Award.
Well done to those who all participated and hopefully next year we can do just as well - if not better!
Inaugural Blues Awards
This year saw Mount Aspiring College establish new awards for Academic, Cultural, Service and Sport. We also have a banner in the foyer celebrating our MAC Blues awards. To see all the recipients click on this link.
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2015 NCEA Success
Last year's NCEA result are announced and compared with similar colleges.
Some great results by all involved.
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ODT Class Act 2014
This year's Class Acts were Kasper Humphrey and Eden Brown. They were both
recognised for their outstanding contributions to the college and the
community in general.
They join our long line of student success stories on the wall of fame in the
Student Foyer.
Film Success Continues
Daisy Thor Poet continues on her road to movie making success taking out another national title in this year's Panasonic Film competition with her short film 'Searching for Summer'.
2013 NCEA Success
Last year's NCEA result are announced along with Mount Aspiring College's Scholarships.
Some great results by all involved.
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2013 Class Acts
This year's Class Acts were Jessica Bailey and Finn Moore. They were both
recognised for their outstanding contributions to the college and the
community in general.
They join our long line of student success stories on the wall of fame in the
Student Foyer.
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Victoria University of Wellington Success
A list of past Mount Aspiring College students who have qualified through Vic this year has just been released.
Congratulations to:
Sarah J Adams
Jane V Britton
Tessa S Fitzgibbon
Charlotte Z Grieve
Daniel W Hunt
Elsa Hunt
Natalie C Paterson
Lauren Ries
Courtney Tate
Jack Teppett
MAC students,Daisy Thor-Poet, Kath Millis and Ming Thor-Poet all of Year 10 are heading to Vietnam and with a bit of luck (and after a lot of hard work) perhaps London.
Following their success last year they have reconfirmed their top film making status by winning the same competition again this year. The Kids Witness News competition run globally by Panasonic.
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When Finlay Woods started making a film about his college mate, who knew what it would lead to? His film "Shimmer" came a close second in this years annual Mountain Film Festival, held here in Wanaka.
The short film features MAC student Cody Tucker who is currently New Zealand's best Wake Skater (a water sport based on combining wake boarding and skate boarding) bar one.
Everybody at MAC knows that we are lucky to be in the heart of the beautiful South Island with its majestic national parks. OP has been a big part of the education here since the school opened.
The quality of this education has just been rewarded by being acknowledged as being the Best Outdoor Education Programme, in the 2011 Outdoor Excellence Awards.
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Four Mount Aspiring Students, Abigael Ayre, Ashley Campbell, Sina Schaal and Elle Scurr who formed the company 'Back Black', collected five out of seven of the young Enterprise Scheme Southern Regional Awards.
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MAC students Daisy Thor-Poet and Mikaela Cooper who entered a competition run by Panasonic won first prize with their video storybook entitled ‘The Invitation’.
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MAC NCEA Success 2011
Mount Aspiring College students received an outstanding amount of NCEA Merits, Excellence and Scholarships from 2010.
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MAC Success Stories Archive
Click here to see some of the Success Stories of previous years.
