{"id":28760,"date":"2018-10-18T19:50:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T08:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/?p=28760"},"modified":"2026-09-30T05:25:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:25:50","slug":"28760","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/?p=28760","title":{"rendered":"Attaining Scouts Top Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\">[vc_row][vc_column]\t<header class=\"wssc-post-banner wssc-post-banner--focal-center wssc-post-banner--has-breadcrumbs\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wssc-post-banner__media\">\n\t\t\t<img width=\"2560\" height=\"1172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WSSCStudentsLBR-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"wssc-post-banner__image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WSSCStudentsLBR-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WSSCStudentsLBR-300x137.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WSSCStudentsLBR-1024x469.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WSSCStudentsLBR-768x352.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WSSCStudentsLBR-1536x703.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WSSCStudentsLBR-2048x938.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/>\t\t\t<div class=\"wssc-post-banner__title\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wssc-post-banner__meta\"><span>Articles<\/span><time datetime=\"2018-10-18T19:50:24+00:00\">18 October 2018<\/time><\/div>\t\t\t\t<h1>Attaining Scouts Top Award<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<nav class=\"wssc-post-banner__breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n\t\t<ol>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/\">Home<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/announcements\/\">Articles<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><span aria-current=\"page\">Attaining Scouts Top Award<\/span><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/nav>\n\t\t<\/header>\n\t[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\nTwo and a half years of hard work and perseverance pays off, for Year 12 student Madeline Tomkins, receiving one of the most prestigious awards that a Scout can obtain.\u00a0Madeline has recently received the award of the Queens Scout which is awarded to only a small percentage of Scouts each year, attaining this top award for displaying each of the following, Initiative, sustained effort, self-discipline, teamwork and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Earning this award has seen Madeline develop a sought after skill set, working within the community to achieve seventeen different badges which took a great deal of time to complete.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-28763\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MadelineQueenScout-1024x655.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"732\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Year 12 student Madeline Tomkins Queen\u2019s Scout\u00a0recipient<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Completing an amazing 400 hours of documented work over the span of two and a half years which involved obtaining seventeen individual badges, collating quite a hefty binder of reports and badge activity statements.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-28766 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MadelineQueenScout1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"279\" \/>\u201cI really enjoyed going out and meeting new people, because being part of Scouts you get to meet other people like you from various regions\u201d Madeline\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>Madeline has used this amazing achievement on her early application form at La Trobe University, where she wishes to study to become a pediatrician after completing her VCE at our College. Our students are active members within our local community, taking opportunities to give back through extra-curricula activities, the College Graduate Program and in their own time. The College would like to congratulate Madeline on her achievement.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row] Two and a half years of hard work and perseverance pays off, for Year 12 student Madeline Tomkins, receiving one of the most prestigious awards that a Scout can obtain.\u00a0Madeline has recently received the award of the Queens Scout which is awarded to only a small percentage of Scouts each year, attaining this top&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-28760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39764,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28760\/revisions\/39764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28760"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssc.vic.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_series&post=28760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}