Cr  Keith Campbell (South Burnett Regional Council), Quota Club of Kingaroy president Marie Shaw, judges Clair Nicholls, Ilma O’Farrell and Bernie Pegrem with winner Kate Coughlan, centre  
Quota members Sandra Tincknell and Lorrie Pegrem

July 24, 2013

Congratulations to Kate Coughlan, from Nanango State High School, who won the Kingaroy round of the 2013 Quota International Student of the Year competition last Saturday night.

A total of eight students from Nanango State High School, Kingaroy State High School and St Mary’s Catholic College had a 40-minute interview with judges Bernie Pegrem, Ilma O’Farrell and Clair Nicholls.

The students then presented four-minute prepared speeches and a two-minute impromptu speech in front of a small audience in the South Burnett Regional Council Chambers in Kingaroy.

Kate was presented with a shield and certificate from the Kingaroy Quota International Club.

She will now compete at the Quota International District 34 finals in Maryborough on August 10 where she has the opportunity to win a bursary from Quota International for her tertiary studies.

Quota Club of Kingaroy president Marie Shaw, centre, with the 2013 competitors, from left, Rosh-Hannah Christoffel (Kingaroy SHS), Maddy Payne (Kingaroy SHS), Roxanne Guerin (Nanango SHS), Kate Coughlan (Nanango SHS), Sam Johnston (Kingaroy SHS), Lauren Cross (Kingaroy SHS), Claire Anderson (St Mary’s Catholic College) and Sinead Horne (Kingaroy SHS)

Proud mums E Jay Lindsay-Park and Sue Christoffel and Thalia Guerin

Some more proud mums Leesa Johnston and Katy Payne with St Mary’s teacher Pam Radcliffe