02/08/2026 – NTH&Tech OSA

Solar Challenge – National Finals 2026 update

Posted on 02/08/202602/08/2026 by Tim Oxley

Some readers may know about the Tasmanian Model Solar Challenge – an educational competition wherestudents build a solar powered car or boat and learn how to make it move efficiently. The dates for 2026 are: Cars – the Solar Car Challenge will take place on Sunday November 8 at HCHS.Boats Continue Reading

Chairmans Report

Posted on 02/08/202602/08/2026 by Roger Cutcliffe

June and July have been exciting times for the Old Scholars Association, building its connection with Hobart City High School and old scholars. The Association has : Fund raising is a critical function of the committee. If you have any unused/ not required mechanical, electrical or battery operated appliances in Continue Reading

A Confession

My first contact with the school was in 1942 when the Junior Technical School was in Bathurst Street and I was a student studying Chemistry at University. Our laboratory was on the second floor immediately above the broad driveway on which the school assemblies were held. The boys were tightly packed into the limited space available and we looked down upon them, as it were, from a great height. We used to sprinkle them with a fine spray of water blown from apparatus called wash bottles. They would look up at us in frustrated desperation. They could do nothing about it. They were too crowded to be able to move aside and, under the discipline of the school, unable to create a disturbance. They were sitting ducks. The university students very unfairly took advantage of the situation. But if looks could kill, we would have been consigned to everlasting perdition.

Twenty-four years later I re-appeared on the scene as Headmaster. It is remarkable how greatly perspectives can change in twenty-four years.

Des Mahoney

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