VCE Awards - Path to the future

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Millie, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

So, my name is Millie Nilsen.

Will, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

My name’s Will.

Patrick, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

Patrick.

Grace, Outstanding VCE Vocational Major Student:

Grace McKay.

Elizabeth, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

Elizabeth.

Angus, Outstanding VCE Vocational Major Student:

I’m Angus.

Patrick, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

My overall VCE experience? Well, if I had to sum it up, it’d be… challenging but definitely worth the reward.

Angus, Outstanding VCE Vocational Major Student:

Some of the things that surprised me were, how much I’d enjoy it really. But also the workload is quite a bit, especially in fashion.

Millie, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

I am very self-motivated and self-led so I really liked having the deadline and getting it done and feeling that sense of accomplishment.

Grace, Outstanding VCE Vocational Major Student:

I really learn with my hands more than book work. I think it’s a lot more practical, actually.

Elizabeth, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

I think the most important thing I learnt from VCE was just that kind of self-discipline and especially the curiosity to just learn a lot.

Grace, Outstanding VCE Vocational Major Student:

At the end of Year 12, I had completed two years of my apprenticeship already as well as two years of TAFE and have a full time job.

Will, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

I reckon there were three subjects I did in Year 11 that I changed and didn’t do in year 12. Like, I was just exploring so many different subjects. Just seeing what I liked most and what I wanted to do.

Grace, Outstanding VCE Vocational Major Student:

I did a couple of, like, work experience. At a couple different places, not just mechanics, to do plumbing, electrical stuff like that. And yeah, decided to do mechanics that way.

Angus, Outstanding VCE Vocational Major Student:

Having a huge range of options is great, especially when you get into Year 11 and 12 and in the VM pathway, you can choose between where you want to do work placement, you can sort of pick any field in… any field you want. As well as TAFE there’s hundreds of different courses out there. Yeah, there’s definitely a wide variety of things you can do.

Patrick, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

I think I chose the subjects that I felt would align most with my career. The highlights would definitely be biology and psychology. Some of the knowledge that I gained from that subject are still, like, impacting my studies today. I’m still pulling bits and pieces from those subjects into my current uni course. And it’s just really rewarding to see the puzzle pieces fit together into like a bigger picture.

Millie, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

I’m not exactly sure what it is I want to do but I think I’m interested in International Relations, International Diplomacy.

Will, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

I’m doing Arts at Melbourne. It’s a very diverse course. There’s so many different opportunities and pathways.

Patrick, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

Nothing’s really out of the picture. But I am loving all the different aspects of medicine. Whether that be… Surgery would be cool. But paediatrics is also really interesting to me.

Millie, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

The dream job? Um…

Angus, Outstanding VCE Vocational Major Student:

I think owning my own store. Yeah, stocking other designers, making my own pieces on the side. That sounds really cool to me.

Grace, Outstanding VCE Vocational Major Student:

I’d like to work on the heavy diesel type. Big machinery on farms. That’d be where I’d like to be in the next five years.

Millie, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

I don’t know exactly what it would entail but ‘UN Diplomat’ is quite a title.

Patrick, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

Oh, so becoming a doctor has definitely been a lifelong dream. And now, as a medical student, I can really appreciate the dedication to like, just learning and that continual dedication to self-improvement as well.

Millie, Top All-Round VCE High Achiever:

It’s a bit different. I mean, uni is completely different from school, but yeah, it’s still set me up to have really good study habits, good discipline. Yeah, in uni I just kind of take that high energy spirit that VCE drilled into me and apply it there.

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Updated 26 June 2025

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