Castlemaine Secondary College student Pip Kelly-Buttfield attended the nine-day January 2024 NYSF at ANU in Canberra.
At a recent Rotary meeting, Pip explained the stringent selection process and was clearly enthused at his experiences with participating organisations. An experience Pip will long remember was seeing fertiliser created from waste food using maggots, but a presentation by CERN was memorable for all the right reasons!
Ultimately, attending the NYSF program influenced Pip to change his preferred direction from palaeontology to aerospace engineering.
He had amazing experiences, made friends and connections, and fabulous memories to look back on. He is grateful for this life-changing experience and the contributions of Rotarians both as sponsors, providers and volunteers who made it all happen.