Seven graduates from Catholic schools across South Australia, including six from regional schools, have been announced as recipients of prestigious scholarships from the Playford Memorial Trust.
The old scholars were among a record 50 students honoured at an April award ceremony at Flinders University’s Bedford Park campus.
The Playford Memorial Trust supports high-achieving South Australian students working in areas of strategic importance to the State.
This year’s recipients of the annual scholarships range from first-year undergraduates to PhD researchers. They shared close to $700,000 in scholarship funding from the Trust and its partners.
Congratulations to the following Catholic school graduates who received a Playford Trust Scholarship to contribute towards their studies:
Dana Hurrell received the inaugural Playford Trust STEM Encouragement Scholarship. Dana is now a mathematics and chemistry student at the University of Adelaide whose ambition is to become a STEM teacher.
Established in 1983 in honour of Sir Thomas Playford, the State’s longest-serving Premier, the Trust has provided $5.1 million in financial support to South Australian tertiary students since 2010, with more than 600 students supported over the past decade.
The Trust focuses its university scholarships and TAFE awards on five key study areas: advanced manufacturing and new technologies; environmental sciences, including water and energy; health sciences and enabling technologies; agriculture, aquaculture and food production; and mining and resource development.
Read more about the scholarships here.
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