BOX HILL HIGH SCHOOL

'Box Hill High School' is a co-educational public secondary school located in the eastern suburb of Box Hill in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
It provides education for years 7-12. Year 11 and 12 students undertake the VCE program. There are currently approximately 930 students enrolled at the school.
Box Hill High School runs an ''Accelerated Learning Program'' for gifted students, which teaches the curriculum to these students at a much faster rate. Box Hill was only the second public school in Victoria to introduce such a program; there are now twenty-seven. Entrance to the program is selective, and determined by exams during Grade Six. Within the program, syllabi from Years 7-10 are compacted into three years, after which time students proceed directly into VCE, completing it in either two or three years. Year 9 students in the accelerated program have the option of doing Year 11 Mathematical Methods and/or Biology.
The school also has a large Model Solar Car Program, detailed below.

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Model Solar Car Competition

Model Solar Car Competition

Box Hill High School has a reputation of consistently designing, building and eventually racing model Solar Cars at the Victorian and National levels. With production beginning in late term 1 or early term 2 the team has approximately half a year to create a fleet of vehicles (up to 12) worthy of the carrying the Box Hill High School name on their side. The Victorian state event, or VMSCC, is held at the ScienceWorks Museum, Spotswood, in October each year. The most successful years for Box Hill High so far have been 2005 (with 1st place, best engineered), and 2006 (with 2nd, 3rd, and best engineered). The team's best performance at the national event was a 2nd place in 2003, it also brings home the best engineered design award with unnerving consistency from both the state competition and the national event.
The 2007 event is scheduled to take place at Scienceworks on 20-21 October. Entry is free with Scienceworks admission fee.