The group behind a day bringing the Hororata community together earned the top team prize at the Lincoln University Future Leader Scholar Awards last week.
Called Primary Focus, it was run for a second year with the objective to promote all-round wellbeing within the rural community through an all-day event at the Hororata Primary School.
The purpose of the Future Leader Scholarship programme is to ‘Grow Leaders for the Future’. The scholars learn about leadership while they actively contribute to the university and the wider community through individual activities and group projects. The programme aims to develop well-rounded, open minded and conscious leaders.
Future Leader Manager, Ilse von Hirschberg, said the individuals recognised at the annual Leader Awards were exemplars of that.
Lincoln University Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bruce McKenzie, presented the awards at a ceremony on campus, which also recognised individual achievement.
Ilse said a highlight of this year’s awards was having all the third year students’ parents attend the event for the first time.
It was a great opportunity for LU to showcase our commitment to ‘doing good’ in our communities with work done by Future Leaders this year ranging from working with schools, through the elderly in a residential hospital, she said.
Individual award winners 2019:
First Year Servant Leadership Award: Caitlin Grieve and Amy Wells
First Year Runner Up Future Leader of the Year: Petra Campbell
First Year WINNER Future Leader of the Year: Kate Smitstra
Second Year Servant Leadership Award: Zee Hammond-Walker
Second Year Runner Up Future Leader of the Year: Ella Sutherland
Second Year WINNER Future Leader of the Year: Rachael Phillipson
Third Year Servant Leadership Award: Reuben Jeffery-Butler
Third Year Runner Up Future Leader of the Year: Abby O’Brien
Third Year WINNER Future Leader of the Year: George Letham