Five year 10 girls from St Andrew’s Anglican College are now International Champions.
The team from the Peregian Springs-based school, won the Gold medal in the International Ethics Olympiad on Thursday 23 February.
Sophie Turner, Madeline White, Abbie Tremlett, Lucy Shelley and Samadhi McLennan have also secured their place in the history books as the first Queensland team to ever win a medal in this competition.
Forty schools from around the globe, including one from every state in Australia competed in the online event which, consisted of three heats, which went over a four and a half hours.
Teams discussed ethical theories across a range of eight case study scenarios and were scored according to criteria that rewards clear, concise, respectful discourse around interesting ethical cases.
“They worked hard to prepare for this final and were a little anxious as this was our first year competing in the Competition,” Head of Thinking and Learning Enrichment Mrs Jillian Green said.
“They were having high level discussions on consequentialism, utilitarianism, deontology and virtue ethics.
“It was so good listening to our students undertake such depth of analysis on some very difficult topics and were great representatives of the College.”
