Greek students receive Premier’s VCE Award

Three Greek Australian students are amongst the 305 top-performing VCE students to achieve a Premier’s VCE award.
Christine Demiris, Effie Markesinis, and Miltiadis Paikopoulis, were recognised for achieving a study score of 46 or higher in their VCE subjects last year.
Premier John Brumby presented students with their awards on Tuesday at the Melbourne Convention Centre.
Paikopoulis, who was awarded a Top All-Round VCE High Achiever award achieved a perfect ENTER score of 99.95 last year.
The 2008 DUX of Xavier College received study scores of 50 in English, 48 in Classical Greek, 47 in Latin, 45 in Specialist Mathematics and First Class Honours in University Mathematics.
Christine Demiris, who attended MacRobertson Girl’s High school was awarded for her academic excellence in Literature, whilst Effie Markesinis, from Balwyn High school received an award for LOTE-Greek. Markesinis was the only student to receive a perfect score of 50 in Greek.
“I could not achieve what I did without my teacher, Mrs Kane’s (nee Krilis) ongoing guidance, help and belief in me,” she said.
source: neos kosmos