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Dr Jessa Rogers (Metuamate) is an Aboriginal Australian and a leader in indigenous education. She grew up in Queensland, Australia, and when she had a baby while she was still in at school, it seemed like her education would suffer. However, Jessa not only completed her high school education, but she went on to University and completed several degrees, including a PhD which means she is called Dr Rogers!
Dr Jessa Rogers became the first school principal (and youngest Aboriginal principal in Australia) of the Cape York Girl Academy, a school in far north Queensland for young indigenous mums and their babies. For her work on improving indigenous education in Australia, she won the NAIDOC Youth of the Year award in 2010, had gone on to win many more awards and write several books.
Dr Rogers is a proud member of the Wiradjuri people, an Indigenous community in Australia, and has a strong connection to New Zealand. In fact, her husband is affiliated with two iwis in New Zealand - Ngāti Raukawa, and he is also of Cook Island and Tahitian descent. Jessa is currently working at the University of Canberra as an assistant professor.
For this activity, we had to calculate Jessa's age when she won the NAIDOC Youth of the Year award.
Information:
She was born on the 7th of April 1985.
She received the award on the 9th July 2010.
We had to provide tour answer in years, months and day.
Hi Lyan,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on correctly solving our maths problem! I really like the way you've presented it and explained how you worked it out - well done! :)
Do you like doing problem solving tasks like this one?
Have a great afternoon, Lyan. I look forward to reading more posts from you soon. :)
Bye for now,
Mikey