Golden Key to academic success (Issue 9, 2009)
For her achievements and her passion, Naomi was rewarded with the $1000 Golden Key Asia-Pacific Study Abroad award, which is part of a growing range of ongoing regional awards available to Asia-Pacific members.
‘I would like to thank Golden Key for sponsoring my school fees in China. After another semester I hope I can return to Australia proficient in Chinese in order to contribute to local understanding of this language’, said Naomi on receiving the award.
‘Naomi was one of the very conscientious students in my Chinese class and has been enthusiastic for her language study. She has demonstrated an excellent cultural understanding of her assignments and has been keen in completing her work with a high standard and individuality. Last December I met her in Beijing where she was studying in one of the top Chinese universities. Her humorous Chinese talking really impressed me and clearly demonstrated her progress’ says Dr Bao Q Gao, who was one of Naomi’s lecturers at La Trobe.
Golden Key International Honour Society is the premier college/university honour society in the world, founded in 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia. Golden Key has been active in Australia since 1993, and now has 35 chapters across Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia.
The global non-profit organisation provides academic recognition to students in the top 15 percent of their class through membership by invitation only. Members have access to an extensive scholarship and award program, online training and learning, career information and opportunities, conferences and events, regular society publications and more.
