Our Guest Speaker last week was Finlay Johnson, a Year 12 student at T.H.L.H. School, who had attended the Rotary Science Forum at Canberra last month.
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This Youth program has been running for 30 years and aims to encourage young Australians to make a career of Science.
Four hundred were chosen from 1600 applicants from country and city schools all over Australia, there were also some International participants, and Finlay noted an equal gender balance.
The School ran for 12 days, beginning on January 5.
After an Opening Ceremony in Parliament House, students were offered participation in ten different Interest Groups (Finlay chose the Environmental Strand.)
There were Lab visits, and lots of networking and socialising. They were addressed by scientists, both Australian and International, who shared recent findings and information.
They visited the National Gallery, Questicon, the Portrait Gallery, Tidbinbilla, the War Memorial and the Royal Mint.
They lived on the University Campus and had their own rooms with meals provided.
Days began with breakfast at 7.30am, and Lights Out was at 11pm.
There will be follow-up options to visit scientifically- oriented Universities and Industries, and there are also International programs for those interested.
The idea of the course is “to help young people make informed decisions.”
This was such an enthusiastic and interesting report on one of Rotary’s less well-known Youth programs; Finlay is a credit to his family and to his School.
