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Travel Scholarship winners
The CORE Foundation Travel Scholarship winners are announced each year at the ULearn conference in October each year. Following are the list of winners since the inaugural scholarship in 2010.
Winner for 2011: Chris Henderson
Chris Henderson won the Travel Scholarship while teaching at Aranui High School. Deeply involved in social agencies, such as Christchurch's own Social Innovation, he has focussed on involving his students in global matters, giving them a voice. With the scholarship money he travelled to the International Conference on Economic, Environmental and Social Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver in January 2012. His paper, 'Social Media as an Educational Tool for Developing Youth Citizenship in a Post Disaster Context', drew on his experience after the Christchurch earthquakes.
Some highlights for him were:
- Meeting some of the world's leading thinkers and practitioners in Disaster Management and Sustainability
- Meeting other educators thinking outside the box and engaging NGO's and Non Profits in the success of their classroom projects
- Driving south along Pacific Highway 1 to Paso Robles, the site of a major quake in 2003.
- Talking with locals there about the rebuild of their town
- Visiting Parklands, site of the deepest point of the San Andreas Fault
- Meeting more awesome people, eating AMAZING Mexican food.
Winner for 2010: Neill O'Reilly
Neill O'Reilly is principal at Windsor School, Christchurch. His submission for the award was based on "The opportunity to lift thinking and improve learning." Neil used the scholarship to attend the 15th International Conference on Thinking held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, June 20-24 2011. He presented at this conference on the same subject submitted for the scholarship.
Read Neill O'Reilly's winning submission on "the opportunity to lift thinking and improve learning"
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