Performance and achievements

​​​​​​​​​​​​Queensland Academies Creative Industries Campus (QACI) enables learners to work toward achievements based on merit in a non-competitive environment. Students are engaged in a broad range of opportunities and we congratulate students on their dedication and commitment to their personal and academic endeavours.

Click here​ to learn more about our high-achieving 2025 graduates and what their future plans are.

2025 Highlights

Community engagement

• QACI Student representative Youth Champion for Queensland’s Youth Advisory Council
  
• QACI Student representative for the annual Lord Mayor Youth Advisory Council
  
• Year 10 Student Representatives in the Environmental Youth Advisory Council
• Student participation in School Leadership opportunities with Student Director, House Manager, Connect Mentors, ICT, Tech, Media and Cultural Ambassador teams
• Student representation in the Department of Education World Teachers Day celebration video and advertisements
• Student representation in the Qld Opti-Minds program and competition
• Student representation in the Qld Brain Bee Challenge
• Student representation in the Griffith University Ambassador Program
• Student participatin in the Qld EVATT Model UN Competition
• 150 Year 10 students attend the three-day Year 10 Induction Camp at Alexandra Headland
  
• Aquafest school swimming carnival
• Runfest / Funfest cross country community event
• Talentfest school community talent carnival
• Flockfest whole school community end of year celebrations
• Student participation in a 6-week Brisbane Bullet Basketball program
• Student representation in the Australian Schools Beach Volleyball
• Student representation in Australian State Athletics Championships
• Student Community participation in Harmony Week
• Student Community participation in the National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence
• Student Community participation in International Women’s Day
• Student Community participation in Pride Month Campus Celebrations
• Student Community participation in Book Week and International Literacy Day
• Student Community participation and recognition of NAIDOC Week
• Student Community participation in Queensland Mental Health Week
• Year 11 Student Leadership Development Day
• Year 11 Student Leadership 3-day Camp - Stradbroke Island
• Year 11 Positive Education Program Unleashing Personal Potential – City Scavenger Hunt
• Aspire Community Showcase and Awards Celebration
• Student Investiture Assembly
• Year 12 Graduation Community Celebration
• Year 12 Formal
• Year 11 Semi-Formal
• Student-led QACI Cabaret Performance
• Student-led QACI Drag Race Performance
• ANZAC Day Commemorative Assembly and Student Representation at the ANZAC Commemorative School Service
• Year 10, 11 and 12 Debating Teams competed in the Queensland Debating Union school-level debating
• QACI Student participation in the Brisbane Primary School’s City Cluster Leadership and Legacy Project
• Successful student entry into the Start QUT Program introducing and allowing students to commence early university studies
• International Student Exchange with Japanese and Korean students to QACI
  
• Year 10 University and Careers Expo Day
  
• 30 students and 4 teachers attended The New York City Arts Experience Tour
  
• School community musical Mamma Mia! sold out performances in Term 2
  
• 2 Year 11 student members of the QACI School Council
  
• Department of Education school review undertaken in 2025
• Year 10 Pathways Days with INdustry and ALumni Panel, along with university and tafe displays
  
• Year 11 House Managers members of the City Collective Leadership Program with state school primary school leaders for the duration of 2025
  
• Year 12 student photography work featured in the Why Not digital publication
  
• Year 12 student selected in the 30th National Schools Constitutional Convention (NSCC) at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, Canberra to examine the Australian Constitution Sections 51ii and 90
  
• Year 11 student selected as one of 10 IB student representatives for the inaugural IB Youth Adivsory Council in The Hague, Netherlands
  
• Year 11 student speech presented by MP Elizabeth Watson-Brown in the House of Representatives
  
• Year 10 student participated in the MInister for Education's MInisterial Student Advisory Council in Brisbane
  
• Continued implementation of QACI Engagement Outreach programs:
• QACI Brilliant Futures for Year 7 and 8 students (application)
• QACI Bright Minds for selected state schools Year 5 and 6 students (invited)

Music

• All music students participated in the 2-day Music Composition Camp with Queensland Academies Health Sciences at QACI
• Music students and student-led ensembles perform and three QACI Music Nights (Bands, Instrumental & Vocal, Ensembles)
• Year 12 students performed in the Year 12 IB Music Solo Recitals
• Year 10 and 11 music students performed in Music Solo Recitals
• 17 students participated in CGEN Department of Education’s Creative Generation State Schools Onstage

Film

• Year 12 Retrospective Film Night - Film Screening
• Year 10 iHuman - Film Screening
• Year 12 students showcased their final Year 12 Individual Project - Cinematica
• Year 11 and 12 Film Students attended 3-day Film Camp at Natural Bridge
• Year 10 students participated in specialised editing workshops with film and moving-image artist
• Student award in BUFTA Bond University Film and Television Awards

Theatre

• Year 12 Theatre Students perform in Muse Ignite Theatre Performance, comprising of theatre ensemble performances devised and produced by students
• Year 11 Theatre students perform in the Absurd Theatre Showcase - Windmills in my Mind
  
• Year 10 Theatre Students perform Grimms Tales, by Carol Ann Duffy and dramatised by Tim Supple
  
• Engaged Thomas Larkin (actor/director) to work with year 12 students on verbatim acting and preparation for auditions
• Brisbane-based designers Sarah Winter (stage design), Jason Glenwright (lighting) and Josh McIntosh (stage design) worked with the year 12s to support the design aspect of their Directors notebook task
• Marcus Oborn (voice specialist with USQ) lead vocal workshops with the Year 10 Theatre cohort in preparation for their first public performance of Cloudstreet.
• Engaged Clint Bolster from Homunculus to deliver a workshop on Commedia del Arte with Year 10 students.
• Theatre cohort attended Medea theatre performance at Queensland Theatre.
  
• 80 students attended Playhouse Theatre adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
  

Dance

• Two students successfully performed as Part of the Australasian Dance Collective Youth company
• Year 10,11 & 12 Dance students attended two Dance Labs and engaged with workshops ran by local dance artists, exploring a range of dance styles and cultures including Hula, Samoan Dance, Ballroom, Pop, Lock, Breakdance, Capoeira, Lebanese fusion and Irish Dancing
• Year 10, 11 & 12 Dance students performed in Launch
• Year 10 students worked with Special Guest Artist Yenenesh Nigusse on African Dance
• Year 10 students worked with Phluxus2 Dance choreographer Hsin-Ju Ely (Raw)
• Year 10, 11 and 12 Dance students worked with Commercial Artist Brendan Hodder
• Year 12 Dance students worked with Dr Nerida Matthaei on a contemporary performance piece
• Year 10, 11 & 12 Dance students performed in Chrome
• Year 11 students invited to perform as part of the QUT Dance end of year performance
• Year 10 Dance students worked with Heilani Dance Productions exploring Haka and Polynesian Dance with the Poi
• Year 11 students worked with Corner Pocket Swing, exploring Swing dance
• Year 11 Dance students led a Dance workshop for visiting Japanese tour students
• Year 10 Dance students worked with Phluxus2 Dance artist Bella Hood in an exploration of site-specific dance
• Year 12 student accepted Cruise Ship contact at the completion of their studies
• Year 12 student accepted into the New Zealand School of Dance at the completion of their studies

Visual Arts

• Year 12 student award winner in the Department of Education CGen Excellence in Visual Arts
• Two students selected as finalists in the Next Gen Category of the Brisbane Portrait Prize
• Year 11 and Year 12 Visual Arts students participated in the Visual Arts Big Day In, a 2-day intensive Visual Art day with 5 practicing Visual Artists and workshops
  
• All Year 10 and Year 11 Visual Arts Students attend excursion to GOMA 
• All Year 12 students exhibited in the Final Year 12 Art Exhibition, exIBit
• Year 10 students exhibited in the Year 10 Visual Arts Mark Making exhibition, Gallery 61
• Year 11 students exhibited in the Year 11 Abstract Art exhibition, Gallery 61
• Year 10 students exhibited in the Year 10 Printmaking our Identity exhibition, Gallery 61
• Year 11 students exhibited in the Year 11 Ritual exhibition, Gallery 61
  
• Year 10 Visual Arts students attended the Asia-PAcific Triennial at GOMA​
  

Design Technology 

• Year 12 Design Technology Prototype exhibition

Science

• QACI QUT Sciences Partnership
• National Science Week Activities
  
• Big Science Competition
  
• Science students participated in the National Science Week QUT Innovation Challenge
• STEM Enrichment students participated in the Brisbane EKKA cheese making competition
• Student representation in the Department of Education STEM Girl Power Camp
• Year 11 ESS and Biology students attended Toohey Forest Environmental Centre
• Biology Students attended the Integrated Pathology Learning Centre (IPLC) at the QIMR Berghofer, part of the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
  
• All Year 10 students completed the ABC Cert II in Sampling and Cert III in Lab Skills
• Year 11 student accepted for QUT's 2025 Future You Summit - Health Pioneers Stream (540 applicants across the state)
  
• 4 Year 11 students selected as part of the Senior Research Immersion Program with the Translational Research Institute - SPARQ-Ed
  
• Year 12 Biology and Chemistry students participated in the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital's Prevent ALcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth (P.A.R.T.Y.) program
  
• Year 11 Science students collaborated with QUT's Clinical Simulation Centre at the Faculty of Health
  

Languages

• 12 QACI students and 1 teacher attended 5 week Spanish International Cultural Immersion and Study Tour to Spain with Queensland Academies Health Science Campus staff and students
  
• 5 QACI students and 1 teacher attended 5 week French International Cultural Immersion and Study Tour to France with Queensland Academies Health Science Campus staff and students
  
• James Cook University Academy of Modern Languages Student Participation
• University of Queensland Institute of Modern Languages Student Participation
  
• MLTAQ Speech Competition
  
• Year 10 Spanish students wrote, recorded and edited a Spanish-language radio show for 98.1FM Brisbane Community Radio 
  
• 16 students and 3 teachers attended a Cultural and Language Immersion Trip to Taiwan
• 16 students and 3 teachers attended a Cultural and Language Immersion Trip to Korea
• Korean Enrichment Club

Business

• All Year 10 Business students attend Silk and Squeeg
• All Year 11 Business students attend XXXX Brewery
• Student participation in the Business Activate Program

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