Thursday 30 October 2025
The highly anticipated King's College Inter-House STEM Cup 2025 once again delivered some fierce academic and engineering competition across Junior and Senior divisions. This year the events were expertly managed by Shyamal Naran (Year 13, Averill) who worked tirelessly as the chief organizer and question master, with significant support from Ray Shi (Year 13, Peart), Harry Huang (Year 13, Parnell), James Barrington (Year 12, Greenbank) and Hamish Patel-Smith (Year 12, Averill), alongside various other students who contributed to the popular Mathex and Science question pools. The competition featured four main events: a fast-paced Science quiz using student-designed wireless buzzers, a technical Technology round involving Senior robot maze navigation and Junior wireless RC robot racing, a challenging Maths 'mathex' competition, and finally the Engineering Cardboard Boat Race.
Peart’s strong performance in the Technology rounds gave them a crucial lead going into the inaugural Engineering Cardboard Boat Race held in the school pool, which served as a fun, chaotic end-of-term spectacle for the seniors. While some House designs resembled surfboards, the judging enforced rules requiring the captain to be inside the craft and to keep their shoulders out of the water. Following a thorough review of the video and photographic evidence, Major was ultimately announced as the winner of the engineering component.
However, consistency across all four events was the key to overall victory and ultimately, congratulations went to Peart who won both the Senior and Junior STEM Cups for 2025.
The final rankings saw Parnell, Major, Marion-Bruce and Middlemore completing the top five in the Senior division, while Marsden and Major took second and third, respectively, in the Junior division. The organisers are already looking forward to building upon the success and learning from this year to make the competition even better next year.