Pride of Workmanship Awards ...Stronger Families Vocational Scholarship

Welcome to all our guests at this annual Pride of Workmanship Awards Night.  Tonight is quite special, in that we have added a whole dinension to the Awards, compared with previous years.  The main award, a  scholarship of up to $5000 has not been awarded before, and we will be trusting that it adds to our night , our Club, and especially to our Community.

The Rotary Club of Maryborough has come together with the Go Goldfields Alliance and the Maryborough Education Centre in a partnership designed to deliver improved outcomes for all families in our community.

Maryborough Rotary has a genuine commitment to improve the lives of the citizens in our local community and believes that the most effective way of achieving this in a sustainable manner, is to provide opportunities for individuals to gain skills which will enable them to achieve their full potential.
Therefore Rotary is offering a scholarship to one successful applicant, to investigate best practice in an area that will help make our families stronger.

Rotary is providing up to $5,000 to be utilised on visiting and investigating best practice in an area that will assist families to achieve better outcomes within our communities.  This scholarship will fund conferences, accommodation, travel or other expenses deemed appropriate to achieve the aim of the scholarship.

The aim of the scholarship is to identify world excellence in a vocational field for the advancement of our families and to bring this into our community. It is believed that this will both develop and enhance social infrastructure of our community to build social capital.

We believe that we have 4 excellent applicants. Judging has proceeded, ready for the announcement of the successful applicant at the Pride of Workmanship Night tonight; Tues 30th Oct 2012. We trust that you will enjoy the Evening, and that the Award will develop in scope and achievement.