Outstanding Activities in Year 12

Recent outstanding activities in year 12

Ashmit Year 12 Morgan House

Ashmit has achieved exceptional recognition in a range of essay competitions that he has entered in the last few months. He won 2nd prize in the Oxford Royale International Essay competition that focused on exploring a recent innovation, and Ashmit focused on AI. For this he secured a 100% scholarship to attend any 2 week residential summer school in either Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, Yale or Columbia. He has chosen to do the 2 week Economics and Finance summer school at Kebble College, University of Oxford. In addition, Ashmit is also a finalist for the Northeastern University London essay competition and Immerse Education Essay competition.

Odera  Year 12 Morgan House

Odera won 2nd place in the ISA Poetry competition. Here is a comment from one of the judges:

‘Odera (Cardiff Sixth Form College) wins Second Place for her ‘Life as her Eternal Captive’. And captivating it is, too. The imagery is so rich and flowing out of every line; and you want to read it over and over again.’

Please see the poem below:

My Life as her Eternal Captive

Imprisonment, my unyielding fate,

Ivory-white manacles cast my wrists,

A straightjacket binds my limbs,

While shadows of sentries linger,

From the rise of the ruthless sun

To the quiet debut of the mother moon.

My cunning has swayed a few yet gained me nothing,

For every deception, every fleeting escape,

Has unravelled into hollow triumphs

It is never enough. Never enough.

Banish them! Cast them into oblivion!

Yet they return, a battalion stronger,

Echoing through the cursed chambers of my mind,

Laying siege to a soul already iron-bound,

For even in sleep, I wear these chains,

In the wasteland of my dreams, I find no peace

My cries, unheard. My pleas, dismissed.

My tears, fuel for your cursed laughter.

I am nothing, my fears mere whispers in the void.

For I am a prisoner, caged by the ceaseless drum,

A prisoner yearning for just the taste of release,

Yet freedom is a melody long forgotten,

A song that will only end

When steel proves victorious to the chord of crimson ivory.

Angela Year 12 Morgan House

Angela and her team completed a project for the CTB (China Thinks Big) Global Youth Research and Innovation Conference. The project explored the link between Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and mental health disorders. The team qualified for the final global round of CTB) and Angela and her team were invited to showcase their research project at Harvard University. Angela and her team achieved a highly commended 2nd place in the final round at the Harvard Global Conference. 

The Minds Underground Essay Competition CSFC success!

Over 10,000 entries from across the world. Essays explore a range of topics, including AI in medicine, democracy’s agency in an age of misinformation and the engineering of a panic alarm earring. 

We are delighted that 3 students from CSFC were finalists in this competition.

• Maya was the winner in the Dentistry essay competition.

• Qian  was the runner up in the Engineering Innovation Challenge for the Inventive Category

• Yuxuan  was highly commended in the Law essay competition.

• Braden was the winner in the Medicine essay competition