 I'm Conner, I am a nursing student doing the Bachelor of Nursing through the University of Newcastle and I'm in my 30th. When I was a teenager I fractured my spine and I was looked after by these amazing nurses who really just cemented for me that that's where I belonged. They made every day happy for me no matter how miserable I was, no matter how much pain I was in. I just wanted to do that. I just wanted to be there through someone's dark days and make them bright. So nursing was for me. The scholarship I received I believed I was the only recipient for so I was blown away. I applied on a whim and was absolutely blown away that they wanted me to receive this money. The fact that this support exists is massive. It's knowing that people want you to succeed no matter where you came from. It means that people can change the cycle of what may have been generations of poverty. I was really surprised that there's these amazing people in the world that want to reach out and help people they don't know. One of my children was going through a bad experience and I was able to be there for him because of this scholarship. I was able to actually buy my uniform because of this scholarship. My laptop died. I was doing my exam on my phone at one point because I just couldn't, I couldn't get any laptop. I don't know if I would have continued in the manner I was doing well. I had no interest in being an academic but now I'm just, I'm so pumped for what my future holds. It makes me want to go forth and give back to everyone else. So I got this opportunity to volunteer at Children's University which is where they take these year six kids through. And their parents may never have been to uni. Their grandparents probably didn't even finish high school. Like these kids who had never seen a university and seeing their highs just like, whoa this is so cool, like this is what you do. I just know that when they go forward if there's people who donate money to scholarships that they're not going to feel like they can't succeed. If there's people that are willing to just give them a little, little bit of a lift to afford a uniform, to afford a laptop, to afford a pen. To the supporters of the university, the students and the scholarships, I just want to say thank you. Thank you for helping us individually as a community and for making our future brighter.