NZQA celebrated the success of the highest-achieving New Zealand Scholarship students with a public announcement on 8 May 2020.
The awards recognised the elite students who make up the 2019 Premier Award and Top Subject Scholarship Award winners.
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Prime Minister's Award for Academic Excellence 2019
Liam Anderson, formerly of Wellington College, was announced winner of the 2019 award by the Minister of Education, Hon Chris Hipkins.
Liam achieved Outstanding Scholarships in Chemistry, Physics, Spanish, and Statistics, and Scholarship in Biology, Calculus, English, and Health and Physical Education. He is also the Top Subject Scholarship Award winner for Spanish.
Premier Scholarship Award winners 2019
| Name | School |
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| Liam Anderson* | Wellington College |
| George Bates | King's High School |
| Noah Ferguson-Dudding | Rangitoto College |
| William Han | Macleans College |
| Tessa Herkt | Rangitoto College |
| Joyce Hu | Waikato Diocesan School for Girls |
| Mukund Karthik | Botany Downs Secondary School |
| Tiana Mayo | Waikato Diocesan School for Girls |
| Ethan Ng* | Burnside High School |
| Nicholas Patel | Wellington College |
| Yash Shahri | Botany Downs Secondary School |
| Raymond Zhang | Rangitoto College |
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*Also a Top Subject Scholarship Award winner
Top Subject Scholarship Award winners 2019
| Subject | Name | School |
|---|---|---|
| Accounting | Daniel Torrey | Mount Roskill Grammar School |
| Agricultural and Horticultural Science | Bianca Green | Rathkeale St Matthew's Senior College |
| Art History | Friederike Voit | Rangitoto College |
| Biology | O’Rorke Smith | Dunstan High School |
| Calculus | Ethan Ng | Burnside High School |
| Chemistry | Josephine Situ | Carmel College |
| Chinese | Jianru Mo | Hillcrest High School |
| Classical Studies | Emma Wong She | Diocesan School for Girls |
| Dance | Isope Akau’ola | Mount Roskill Grammar School |
| Design | Jamie Haenraets | King's High School |
| Design and Visual Communications | Zoie McKenzie | Epsom Girls’ Grammar School |
| Drama | Nelson Sai-Mon Lee | Macleans College |
| Earth and Space Science | Merlyn Barrer | Nayland College |
| Economics | Benjamin Holland | Ashburton College |
| English | Quinn Gray | Dilworth School |
| French | Thomas Brendolise | Mount Albert Grammar School |
| Geography | E Wen Wong | Burnside High School |
| German | Jannik Wittgen | Orewa College |
| Health and Physical Education | Gloria Tuitupou | Tamaki College |
| History | Jesse Richardson | Wellington College |
| Japanese | James Tanuma | Onslow College |
| Latin | Joy Tong | St Cuthbert's College |
| Media Studies | Cybella Maffitt | St Cuthbert's College |
| Music | Sarah Lawrence | Rangi Ruru Girls' School |
| Painting | Elijah Molloy-Wolt | Kerikeri High School |
| Photography | Shaniah-Shane Smith | Hastings Girls' High School |
| Physics | Campbell Jin | Westlake Boys' High School |
| Printmaking | Rosetta Brown | Rangi Ruru Girls' School |
| Samoan | Fiataua Samuelu | James Cook High School |
| Sculpture | Emma Ormsby | Westlake Girls' High School |
| Spanish | Liam Anderson | Wellington College |
| Statistics | Breanna Camden | New Plymouth Girls' High School |
| Te Reo Māori | Pounamu Wharehinga | Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Horouta Wānanga |
| Te Reo Rangatira | Hunaara Waerehu | Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Waiū o Ngāti Porou |
| Technology | Mackey Johnstone | St Andrew's College |
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