The Department of Education has announced the 2020 Premier’s Anzac Prize recipients in partnership with RSL Queensland.
The annual prize provides an opportunity for eight high school students to experience the Anzac tradition first-hand and discover how the Anzac legacy relates to modern Australian life.
The 2020 Premier’s Anzac Prize recipients are: Benjamin Ivers, Proserpine State High School; Claire Wingfield, Bribie Island State High School; Jackson Hay, Fraser Coast Anglican College (Wondunna); Molly Jeffery, Pimlico State High School; Natalia Loukas, St Monica’s College (Cairns); Khyja Miller, All Saints Anglican School (Merrimac); Louis Prager, Matthew Flinders Anglican College (Buderim) and Xeniya Girs’ka, Kirwan State High School.
Chaperones were named as Joni-Mae Edwards, Cleveland District State High School and Sharon Mann, St Monica’s College (Cairns).
Applications were open to eligible Queensland high school students in Years 8-to-11 and each State school or accredited non-State school could nominate up to two students.
The successful students and teacher chaperones will take part in a four-to-five- month research program before going on a 16-day tour of important memorial sites in London and the Western Front battlefields in France and Belgium, in April and May 2020.
They will also attend a tour briefing and two-day research workshop in January 2020.
