Golden Key believes in rewarding its members for their academic, leadership and service excellence. Annually, the Society offers more than USD$500,000 in member-only scholarships and awards. Most of these scholarships and awards are administered by Golden Key Headquarters and require a formal application. A new list of scholarships and awards are now available on the Golden Key website. Remember to check these scholarships and awards listings regularly as they are being updated. Register your scholarship application now!
International Conference Scholarship Recipient
In July 2012, Golden Key held their International Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference provided an excellent opportunity for over 600 members from around the world to converge on Atlanta for three days of networking, leadership training and mentoring. QUT decided to provide a small scholarship for one of its members to help fund attendance at this conference. This year’s recipient was David Alexander. He is in his third year of his PhD investigating melt processes within New Zealand glaciers.
David is a member of the Executive Committee and has attended two Asia-Pacific Golden Key conferences previously. He enjoyed every minute of this opportunity to experience an International Conference for the first time and looks forward to sharing the experience with several others from the QUT Chapter of Golden Key.
The International Conference Experience
By Rosie Attwell
From the 27th to the 29th of July 2012, Lauren Crome, Rosie Attwell, Maija Bicevskis Jodie Lee and David Alexander went to the International Golden Key conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Attracting 600 students from all over the world, these five Golden key affiliates represented the Queensland University of Technology chapter.
Beginning with an opening ceremony, the group dressed in green to represent the Asia Pacific Region with their fellow delegates from Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia. Over the course of the weekend, the group participated in career building workshops, service activities and were taken to the world’s largest Aquarium for the concluding gala dinner.
The time I spent building a compost heap at the refugee community garden was one of the most memorable. I was working in a team with people I’d only just met and doing something to help the Live Love Foundation. I became known as the “Raker Girl” because I was on top of the pile of mulch and raking it down for all the people shoveling the mulch. Although we were all tired, sweaty and thirsty by the end of it, we all felt like the work we did contributed in some small way to the refugee community.
