Sep-Oct 2016 Issue | Business View Oceania

8 Business View Oceania - September/October 2016 A team of student leaders from Mt Waverley Secondary College has been recognised for their leadership and teamwork through Halogen Australia’s prestigious ATLAS (Australia’s Team Leadership Award for Students) Initia- tive. Launching for the third time in 2016, and with the generous support of CPA Australia, this award recognises young people working together to make an impact in their school and community. With a high profile judging panel, featuring CPA Australia Chief Execu- tive, Alex Malley, academic Dr Susan Carland, physicist and science com- mentator Dr Alan Duffy, and NITV Channel Manager, Tanya Orman – Hal- ogen’s ATLAS initiative rewards stu- VICTORIAN STUDENTS WIN PRESTIGIOUS NATIONAL YOUTH LEADERSHIP AWARD dent teams who have achieved gen- uine impact through shared ideas, insight and involvement. The winning team of students fromMt Waverley have transformed their school’s culture, and enhanced positive teacher/student un- derstanding by undertaking a long-term project to foster student voice and en- gagement throughout the diverse mul- ti-campus school. At the project’s heart, is the VicSRC Program known as Teach the Teach- er, which supported the students to develop professional learning mod- ules for their teachers to develop ap- propriate feedback and prioritise a strengths-based approach to learn- ing in the classroom. Most recent- ly, the students co-ordinated a con- ference for 40 local schools, to share