A passion for science has proved a winning formula for a Southern Highlands student. Moss Vale High’s Jemima Huggett was recently presented with the prestigious Victor Chang Award.
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Named after the late cardiac surgeon and pioneer of modern heart transplantation, Dr Victor Chang, the award was established to celebrate young, gifted students. Jemima’s passion for science began at an early age and it blossomed throughout her schooling.
“Classes such as evolution, environmental sciences and biology really captured my attention,” she said. “I also hike and that ties in nicely with my earth sciences and geography interests.”
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Classes such as evolution, environmental sciences and biology really captured my attention.
- Jemima Huggett
The Victor Chang award ceremony held on November 15 in Wollongong, was an incredible night for Jemima.
“Having a specialised event was really cool,” Jemima said. “It made me feel really proud of my accomplishments. Going down to Figtree High School last Friday for the award ceremony and meeting like-minded students in science was a great experience.”
As well as the Victor Chang achievement, Jemima scored a distinction in the Australian Geography Competition and a credit in the 2018 Science Olympiad in Earth and Environmental Science.
Jemima’s Year 11 senior geography project titled, “The impact of urbanisation in East Bowral on native wildlife” was entered into the Brock Rowe Senior Geography Fieldwork Competition. “It was really interesting working on that project,” she said.
“I got to explore East Bowral and see how the ecosystem had changed with the developments happening in the area. We moved here (East Bowral) two years ago and seeing the changes from then to now has been quite eye-opening.”
Jemima plans to pursue her science studies and continually strive to improve.
“I’m doing a lot of environmental sciences at the moment and I’m trying to tie in my agricultural sciences,” she said. “I’m going to continue hiking and learn more about earth sciences and geography.”
