Tom Breed and George Payne were announced as the winners of the Rudy Meyer Memorial Scholarship. 

The scholarship honours the memory of longtime Coleambally resident Rudy Meyer. As part of the scholarship, students are able to understake an outward bound experience of their own choosing. 

Mr Payne and Mr Breed chose to spend 12 days scaling mountains in the Australian Alps. 

“We did the Outward Bound course over 12 days. It was great. It really tested us. I loved it,” Mr Payne said. 

“Each day two people were appointed as leaders and two others were appointed as navigators. It was their job to get us to the next base.”

Two experienced guides helped the group navigate up and down the side of the mountains. 

“There was a lot of walking and a lot of team building activities,” Mr Breed said. 

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“I’d encourage anyone to do it because it gets you out of your comfort zone and you get to meet a lot of new people.” 

Mr Meyer is remembered for his amazing survival skills, having spent his teenage years in a Japanese concentration camp prior to his family’s migration to Australia.  

Mr Payne and Mr Breed were presented the award by Mr Meyers’ daughter Vicky Meyers. 

They were formally awarded the scholarship at the Country Education Foundation of Coleambally-Darlington Point presentation night recently. 

The foundation will have given out 107 grants totalling $134,850 in 2018. 

In addition to the memorial schoarship, the Noel and Joyce Chirgwin grant was presented to Rosalie McKersie.