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The first co-hort of International Baccalaureate students completed their extended essay at the end of 2011.  The extended essay, a substantial piece of writing of up to 4,000 words, enables students to investigate a topic of special interest that they have chosen themselves. It also encourages them to develop the skills of independent research that will be expected at university.

The following students are to be highly commended for their effort and achievement:

Wei Shian Chen - Water resistance: How does speed and cross-sectional surface area affect the drag on objects moving through water?

Alec Duncan - Britain to the Antipodes. Assessing the factors that contributed to immigration to New Zealand from Great Britain and Ireland 1840-1870 ad 1945-1970

Ali Gardiner - To what extent did perestroika and glasnost contribute to the collapse of theSoviet Union?
 Read an excerpt of the Extended Essay (16KB)

James Kane - France, New Zealand and Nuclear Testing – what were the causes of the differing views of France and New Zealand regarding nuclear testing in the South Pacific?

Darell Pang - To what extent does the variation between the quality of life and distance from CBD in the Wellington city, New Zealand, correlate with the pattern of socio-economic characteristics of the concentric ring land use model?
 Read an excerpt of the Extended Essay (601KB)