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Awards connect businesses and top students
Leading Sunshine Coast and national businesses will be on the lookout for star recruits at the University of the Sunshine Coast’s annual Faculty of Business Awards and Prizes Ceremony tomorrow (Tuesday 12 April) from 6pm.
The ceremony is eagerly anticipated by student award winners as well as industry award donors who have an opportunity to meet some of the brightest business students in the region.
Representatives of 43 local and national companies will present almost 70 academic prizes, scholarships and bursaries totalling more than $70,000 at USC’s Innovation Centre auditorium.
Among the industry donors are ANZ Bank, Big Kart Track, CPA Australia, Eumundi Markets, John Wiley & Sons Australia, KPMG, Love and Partners, McGraw-Hill Australia, Sajen legal, Sea FM, Westpac and Wicked Wolf Events.
The prizes are awarded to outstanding students in particular subjects, as well as to overall outstanding students in particular majors.
The standout achiever is Theresa Tobin of Mooloolaba who has doubled her haul of three academic prizes last year with six awards this year, with a total prize value of $2,550.
Her awards are the $250 ANZ Bank Prize for the Highest Achieving Student in Introduction to Financial Planning, $400 Garland Waddington Prize for the Best Student in Retirement and Superannuation, $500 KPMG Prize for the Best Student in Auditing and Professional Practice, $525 NIA Prize for the Best Student in Management Accounting, $500 Professional Investment Services Prize for the Best Second Year Financial Planning Student and the $375 Tax Institute Prize for the Outstanding Student in Contemporary Accounting Issues.
Sarah Barbagallo of Buderim and Frances Martin of Buddina will receive three academic prizes apiece.
Sarah’s awards are the $500 ANZ Prize for the Highest Achieving Student in Insurance and Risk Management, $400 CPA Australia Prize for the Best Second Year Accounting Student, and the $250 John Wiley & Sons Australia Prize for the Best Student in Company Accounting.
Frances will receive the $1,000 API Prize for the Most Outstanding Graduating Student in the Bachelor of Property Economics and Development, $400 Garland Waddington Prize for the Best Student in Property Law and the $1,000 Valuers Registration Board of Queensland Prize for the Most Outstanding Second Year Student in the Bachelor of Property Economics and Development.
Six other students will collect two academic prizes each. Among them is Chelsea Wallis of Marcus Beach who started at USC last year, aged just 15. She won the $250 McGraw-Hill Australia Prize for the Best Student in Economics for Business and the $150 Pearson Australia Prize for the best Student in Marketing Theory and Practice.
Grahame Miller of Gympie also picked up two prizes, matching the two he won last year. He will receive the $625 ANZ Bank Prize for the Highest Achieving Student in Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility, and the $250 ANZ Bank Prize for the Highest Achieving Student in Introduction to Financial Planning.
— Terry Walsh