As the education year looks to wind down, tens of thousands of Territorian High School students received their 2024 Northern Territory Certificate of Education and Training results this morning, with the top 20 students celebrated in a ceremony in Darwin.
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00:0012 years of hard work finally paying off as the Taltrees Best and Brightest celebrate
00:08their success.
00:09It's incredible and so unexpected as well. I didn't check my results this morning at
00:13all. Going up on stage was the first time I heard about it so it's so surprising but
00:17such an incredible thing to find out.
00:20Sam Ricketts from Darwin's Essington School was the highest ranked in the Taltree with
00:26an ETA of 99.9.
00:30There was a lot of study and a lot of stress as well but I'm very thankful to have an amazing
00:33school supporting me. He really helped me get me through it and at the end it was a
00:37positive year 12 experience.
00:39Also recognised was the Taltrees top Indigenous student Ramona Dooley from Alice Springs.
00:46Last year at the academic assembly I don't think I got many awards so I was like oh and
00:50then I was like okay I'll lock in for next year and I tried really hard late last year
00:54and the start of this year so yeah that's pretty much what it was.
00:591,447 students received their NT Certificate of Education this year. 257 of them Indigenous.
01:07Of the top 20, 13 were from Darwin High School.
01:11Hard work trumps intelligence every time so that consistent approach to just giving everything
01:18their best shot for the whole year is what sees students get here tonight.
01:23The Taltrees graduates now looking to the future.
01:27I'd like to study at university. I honestly haven't decided yet. I'm thinking engineering
01:31but really it's pretty uncertain. I've got to go home and spend a few days thinking about
01:35that.
01:36I'm hoping I can work at a school either in like Colombia or Thailand just for about six
01:39months and then go to university after that in 2026.
01:44The road ahead full of opportunities.