Scholarships recognising amazing community contributions have been awarded to two Wakatipu High school leavers.
Megan McCulloch and Mikayla Evans have each been awarded Arrowtown Autumn Festival community scholarships worth $2500.
Administered by Wakatipu Community Foundation (WCF), the programme’s in its second year.
Megan’s love of dance and choreography’s led her to contribute to many school and community productions.
She’s also helped out with the Cancer Society Daffodil Day collection, Wakatipu Youth Council and a mental health initiative.
Mikayla’s been involved with dance and theatre, the environment, sporting events and school leadership.
She’s volunteered at the Motatapu and Queenstown Marathon events, and helped out with the Diwali and Luma festivals and predator-free
trapping.
Autumn festival chair Nichola Bentley says the judging panel was ‘‘extremely impressed with the high calibre of applications received this year, and humbled by the amazing community work being undertaken by our local youth’’.
WCF grants & scholarship coordinator Eunice Borrie says the standard of applicants ‘‘reflects the calibre of young people in the Whakatipu’’.
‘‘They have a lot of talent to offer our community, which we all benefit from.’’
