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Inset: Ssai Ovya Sukumar (19, right) is paying international fees to study at university, and her sisters Eesha (17, centre) and Samyuktha (14) are facing the same challenge when they leave Waitaki Girls High School. Right: Unable to afford international fees for their daughter to go to university, Ozzy Omar (right) has returned to Malaysia with her children, while husband Yusoff Deraman (left) remains working in Oamaru. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED
For most secondary school pupils in Waitaki, pursuing tertiary study is a rite of passage. But this passage can be more arduous for some than others, writes
Ruby Heyward.
Many brought children to the country with them.
Never mind the sky, some stars are right here on earth.
In fact, three go to Waitaki Girls’ High School.
Year 9 pupils Cerys Thomas, Phoebe Wang and Johanna Schoneveld recently won the Nasa Scientist for a Day essay competition.
Entering together, the 13-year-olds wrote the best three essays of any year 9 or 10 class in New Zealand.
“It’s pretty amazing,” Cerys said.
“It’s from the New Zealand Space Agency, and further back, Nasa. It’s just really shocking that we won.”
For winning the competition, they received a mini AR/VR enhanced Uranus model for their school.
They were asked to write about which of Uranus’ 27 moons they would send a spacecraft to and what they might find there, based on what was already known.