On Wednesday 30 July – Friday 1 August, Secondary School students Matilda Grant, Tiantian Shen, Jena Chai and Sophie Magee attended the Global Link Australia Global Environmental and Sustainability Student Forum hosted by Tangalooma Island Resort.

The team’s presentation was called “Almost Vegetarian: Overcoming preconceived biases to rationally tackle global environmental issues” and discussed reasons why eating vegetarian did not have to be thought of as an ‘all or nothing’ decision.

As one of only two English speaking groups in attendance, and with fourteen school groups participating this year, the team presented to a panel of four judges and those attending. Due to the high level of presentations, the judges decided to create an extra award, the Judges’ Award, of which the A.B. team were worthy recipients.

The group was very excited to receive feedback from many of those attending throughout the event that they decided to introduce a meat-free meal into their diet upon their return home.

Congratulations Matilda, Tiantian, Jena (all participating in their final Global Link event) and Sophie on representing A.B. Paterson College at this truly global opportunity!

Amber Aitken | Acting Sustainability Club Coordinator