VCE pair in top scholar program

BOORT District School VCE students Ryan

O’Flaherty and Lucy Malone have had a flying start to study in 2023.

The Year 11 pair have been accepted into the prestige Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars Program at Melbourne University.

Principal Lee-Anne Sherwell said local students had been part of the program in previous years but to have two from the school in one year had not happened before.

The program started last month when

Lucy and Ryan were part of an induction session and will see them attend personal development and academic events during their VCE years and have access to revision lectures.

“We have been encouraging our students to apply for the program for more than a decade,” Ms Sherwell said.

Lucy is studying mathematics methods, specialist mathematics, chemistry, physics and human development while Ryan has chosen similar subjects and applied computing.

Lucy said: “The program is connecting us with like-minded people, people on a similar wave length.”

Ryan said access to additional learning resources would be a great benefit to his studies.

Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars Program is an academic enrichment program designed to support high achieving Victorian Year 11 and Year 12 students. Professor Kwong Lee Dow is a former University Vice-Chancellor, an education scholar, and contributor to curriculum reforms.

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