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Community & Business

12 February, 2025

Scholarship a helping hand for uni goals

AN Atherton teenager has been given a major financial helping hand to enable him to pursue university studies.


P&C treasurer Nicky Keevers (left), Fresh St Market IGA manager Matt Bowles, scholarship recipient Troy Taylor, Fresh St Market IGA office manger Sophie Irvine, and Atherton State High School principal Leanne Knight-Smith.
P&C treasurer Nicky Keevers (left), Fresh St Market IGA manager Matt Bowles, scholarship recipient Troy Taylor, Fresh St Market IGA office manger Sophie Irvine, and Atherton State High School principal Leanne Knight-Smith.

Troy Taylor has received this year’s $10,000 Fresh St Market IGA University Scholarship which will allow him to head off to James Cook University Townsville where he will study a Bachelor of Pharmacy.  

The scholarship, sponsored by Atherton’s Fresh St Market IGA, provides a Year 12 student at Atherton State High School with $10,000 of a three-year period to assist with the costs associated with tertiary studies. The winners from the first four rounds are studying dentistry, midwifery, agribusiness and veterinary science. 

Troy’s success as the latest applicant marks the fifth consecutive round of the scholarship.

It was also announced that the scholarship would be extended for another two years into the sixth and seventh rounds.

“The P&C is, as always, grateful for the opportunity to work with IGA to help administer the scholarship,” P&C treasurer Nicky Keevers said.

“It creates fantastic opportunities for our students to work towards a better future.”

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