A NARACOORTE High School teen is among 65 secondary school students from South Australia awarded a Department of Education scholarship worth $10,000.
The money will support Cleoni Trussel’s commitment to continue pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.
The STEM scholarships program was created to encourage underrepresented students from South Australian schools to pursue STEM related career opportunities and achieve their ATAR goal through targeted financial support.
The money will be used to cover the costs of tutors, laptops, textbooks, revision guides and excursions or any other strategy that directly supports the student to achieve in their chosen STEM subjects and pathways.
Successful students of the scholarship are expected to participate in activities that support career awareness in STEM and dispositions for learning.
Cleoni, along with mentor and science teacher Sarah Edwards, attended an induction to the program in Adelaide where they focused on specific STEM activities and relationship building at Adelaide University.
“I am starting to make connections between what I am learning in science class and my everyday life,” Cleoni said.
“I enjoy understanding how and why things happen in my life with scientific reasoning.
“I feel privileged to be offered this scholarship and I believe it will open up more opportunities to me in the future.”
