AWHI Magazine - Issue 13

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Scholarship helps Gus to find his place in the world If a young Gus Brooks wanted a trip to the movies or some other treat, his teacher father would set him a challenging maths problem to solve.

“We had a whiteboard and he would sit me and my older brother down and write up some equation or other we had to get right to earn our treat,” laughs Gus. “It’s something I still do with my father now, solve problems on a whiteboard, but it has to be said they are somewhat harder these days!”

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