Success Stories

Here are some of the fantastic achievements of Mount Aspiring College's pupils, past and present.

MAC Goldrush Winning Team

Three students from MAC, Harry Llewellyn, Constantin Vogt, Liam Vincent take on one of the toughest triathlon events in New Zealand, The GoldRush, and win!

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The winning team

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The Slur-Tones

This group of hardworking musicians boke into the national scene by winning the award for Best Song in the 2008 National Smokefree Rockquest Awards.

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The Slur-Tones in action

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Laura Ferguson

Hard work and dedication saw Laura achieve the highest mark for her scholarship submission for Level 3 Graphics in New Zealand.

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Laura and her designs

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Scholarship Success

Last year (2007) saw a fantastic haul of scholarships as well as very high success rates overall.

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CO2 Car New Zealand Champion

An exciting Technology exercise that rocketed into a nationwide competition and then beyond.

This is how one MAC student created the fastest car in New Zealand.

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The CO2 Dragsters

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The Young New Zealanders Challenge of the Duke of Edinburgh Award

Eight MAC students battled against the odds and the weather to achieve the prestigious Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award.

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Whitney Mulqueen, Hannah Sutherland, Sophie Penniket, Jillian Macfie and Hannah Beaufoy collect their awards in College assembly

(in absentia: Tayah Johnston, Will Austen, Jody Direen)

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The MAC Super Squad

TV2's children's magazine programme 'Studio2' scoured the country for the Super Squad of New Zealand. Our squad won through to the Grand Finals.

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Rohan Brash, Elmo Cotter, Henry Schikker and Lara Bullock,

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