Education Trust boosts students’ bank accounts
Nineteen young local students will head off to begin their tertiary studies this month, with their bank accounts boosted by the BOP Education Trust.
Last week the selected 19 crossed the stage to receive scholarships at functions held in both Tauranga and Whakatane. Each will receive $6,000 distributed over their years of tertiary study. Over the years, 428 students have benefited from the Trust’s Science, Technology and Emerging Industries Scholarships, with more than $2 million gifted in supportive funding.
This year’s Western BOP recipients are:
Tilly Thomas (Aquinas College), Emily Gillingham (Bethlehem College), Kyra Murray (Katikati College), Kimera Talbot-Chinula and Kahutia Tukaki (Mount Maunganui College), Jack Page and Haylee Hextall (Ōtūmoetai College), Hayley Manning and Brooke Barry (Pāpāmoa College), Evan Fryer and Anthony Coe (Tauranga Boys’ College), Jimin Lee and Prachi Patel (Tauranga Girls’ College), and Austen Targett (Te Puke High School).
Pictured:
Prachi Patel, Brooke Barry, Emily Gillingham, Austen Targett. Middle row, Jack Page, Haylee Hextell, Tilly Thomas, Kimera Talbot-Chinula. Back row, Evan Fryer, Hayley Manning, Anthony Coe, and Kyra Murray.
The Eastern BOP’s newly awarded scholars are:
Samantha Baltazar (Edgecumbe College), Jazmin Stewart (Trident High School), Alex Wilton (Ōpōtiki College). Daniel Zhang and Fifi Portsmouth of (Whakatāne High School).
Pictured:
Back row, Nick Earl, left, and Richard Dey of the BOP Education Trust.
Front row, from left, Fifi Portsmouth, Samanta Baltazar, Jazmin Stewart, Alex Wilton.
Students attending BOP coastal high schools between Katikati and Ōpōtiki are eligible for the scholarships, with the winners determined by the individual colleges/high schools. Those with more than 1,000 students are eligible for two scholarships.
This year’s recipients will be heading off to study a whole raft of subjects including: viticulture and oenology, architecture, computer science, engineering, biomedical science, and health science.
BOP Education Trust chairman Nick Earl says the Trust, which has been operating since 1985, is firmly committed to investing in the tertiary education of the Bay’s young people.
It’s reach, in terms of community support, continues to stretch. In 2021, for example, the Trust introduced supplementary grants born out of a keenness to expand the way in which it helps young people. The most recent recipients (announced late last year) of those supplementary grants are: House of Science, Youth Encounter, Edge BBNZ, and the Graeme Dingle Trust Project K Foundation.