Students in Mitchell Win National Prize for Excellence

Thursday, 2 August 2012

 

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Federal Member for Mitchell, Alex Hawke MP, held a presentation ceremony for 8 young Australians from Mitchell, who are winners of the Australian Student Prize for 2011.

 

The Australian Student Prize is a highly prestigious inaugural award programme that began in 1991 and only 500 prizes are awarded each year, which includes $2,000 to assist the students to pursue their future aspirations.

 

“Winners of these prizes are of the highest academic calibre and I am proud of this recognition of academic achievement, Alex Hawke said.

 

The 2011 winners are: Sanjitha Fernando, Jimmy Wei Jian Huang, Yu Ying Shirley Huang, Andrew Lee, Andrew Li, Michael Lin, Edward Ao Yu Lo-Cao and Babitha Selvananthan.

 

“It gave me great pleasure to present the successful applicants with their certificates and to hear about their hopes for the future,” Alex Hawke concluded.