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Realising Potential Foundation scholarship recipient, Bryzlyn Sin (Year 12) is an avid performer, who has a strong interest in Music, debating and public speaking and a gift for accounting. According to Bryzlyn, PLC has released the potential she never realised she had. Her talent behind a piano has seen her perform in Carnegie Hall and win national and international competitions. Over the past four years, she has represented PLC in a number of public speaking competitions including coming runner-up at her first public speaking competition, the UN Youth Voice Public Speaking Competition in 2017. Since then, she has represented WA at the UN Voice Nationals in Brisbane, won the What’s Your Point? Youth Public Speaking Competition, and been a state finalist in UN Voice Nationals in Perth. In debating, she has competed in Inter-House debating, WADL
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debating, AHISA debating and other academic competitions such as the UN Youth Voice, Australasian Philosothon, Fogarty Futures Leadership Conference Camp, Mock Trials, UN Evatt and Da Vinci Decathlons throughout Years 7 to 11. She was also selected to participate in the Curtin Innovative Student Scholars Programme in 2020. While her achievements seem endless in debating, public speaking, and music, Bryzlyn was also accelerated WACE Accounting in Year 11 and was awarded the Year 12 PLC Accounting and Finance prize in 2021 and passed the Accounting 100 unit with a High Distinction at Curtin University. With the rigors of academia and music, it would be easy to think that Bryzlyn wouldn’t have time for much else, yet she describes herself as “most passionate about community service”. “I have been involved in many PLC service programmes including Cooking for a Cause, where we cook meals for disadvantaged people
and being a reading buddy for the Smith Family Student2Student Buddy Reading Programme, which helps disadvantaged students to improve and boost their confidence in reading,” Bryzlyn said. Bryzlyn said that being a PLC girl means she is spurred to work to her best ability and uphold the high integrity of PLC values: learning, community, effort, and honour. She was named a semi-finalist in the 7NEWS Young Achiever Awards, was awarded the City of Kalamunda’s 2021 Young Local Hero of the Year, achieved her Duke of Edinburgh (Bronze) in 2020, and Bronze Medallion by Royal Life Saving in 2021. To top it off, she is also the Chief Editor of PLC’s creative magazine, Pastiche in 2022. If there was ever a student who embodies the ethos of ‘if you’re given an opportunity, then you grab it with both hands’, it’s Bryzlyn.
