Youth Of The Year
Each year the Lions provide an opportunity for secondary school students to participate in the Lions Youth Of The Year quest. The competition is intended to select the high achieving students from schools and through a series of interviews and public speaking events eventually select a winner from each state who then participate in a national final at the Lions National Convention held in April/May of each year.
The event is generously sponsored by the National Australia Bank
The 2012 competition is now underway and Fraser Lions are seeking students to participate.
The first round will be held in February 2012 and continue through zone, regional and district finals in the following four weeks. All students in grade 11 or 12 are encouraged to participate - see your english department for details. It is a perfect opportunity to build your confidence and to meet and interact with like-minded students from other schools.
In 2009 Daniel Charles from Xavier College stepped through the five levels of Club / Zone/ Regional / District / State finals to be selected as Queensland's Youth Of the Year and to represent our state in Melbourne at the National Final. As part of his winning the state final Daniel received a cash prize as well as a five week all-expenses national tour with all of the other state winners which they undertook in January 2010. While hosted at Hervey Bay they received a mayoral welcome and visited - Fraser Island for two days - Snakes Downunder at Childers and Noosa.
The Fraser Lions Club's YOTY final is held in conjunction with the Hervey Bay Lioness Club so providing two students to the next level (zone final).
Brittany MacDougall from Hervey Bay High School was the Lioness Club's winner in 2009. Daniel and Brittany won the two positions at the zone final to move onto the regional final - which was won by Daniel who then moved onto the District Final.
