Achievements

Writing awards and posts

Winner - “Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Childrens Book Award” manuscript competition
Winner - “Voices on the Coast” manuscript competition
Young and Emerging Writer - Varuna House (one of six in Australia)
Board member - Australian Capital Territory Writers Centre
Program manager - “Editor for a Day”, Australian Science Week
Finalist - National Youth Week “Writeit” Competition (one of ten in Australia)
Finalist - ABC Writing Competition (one of ten in Australia)
Editor - The Hyogo Times, Hyogo Prefecture’s JET newsletter
Finalist - Canon Young Writers of the Year Competition (one of three in WA)

Presentations and keynotes

Speaker - Enabling Grids for E-sciencE, Hungary, Budapest
Presenter - Science on the Move, Richards Bay, South Africa
Keynote speaker - Australian Science Teachers Association National Conference, Hobart, Australia
Keynote speaker - Victorian Science Teachers Association State Conference, Melbourne, Australia
Presenter - Presented science shows to tens of thousands of high school students around Australia as part of Questacon Smart Moves
Speaker - Australia New Zealand JET Alumni Association Regional Conference, Wellington, New Zealand
Presenter - Presented science shows to tens of thousands of primary school students around Australia as part of the Shell Questacon Science Circus

Scholarships and awards

Grades two and three - Japanese Language Proficiency Test (Advanced Japanese)
Scholarship winner - Community Mentoring Program (one of six scholarships in the Australian Capital Territory)
Winning team member - Students in Free Enterprise Australia Entrepreneurship Seminar (one of 42 scholarships across Australia)
Winner - Vice Chancellor’s Commendation for Academic Excellence
Winner - The Melville Tertiary Studies Award
Winner - Australian Student’s Prize (top 0.5% of Tertiary Entrance Scores)
Scholarship winner - CRA NSSS (now the National Youth Science Forum)
Winner - Melville Regional Debating Championships

Last updated September 2008.