By TBHS | Posted: Tuesday August 13, 2019
Timaru Boys' High School welcomed the 76th Otaki Scholar, Rohan Mudkavi.
Rohan spoke at assembly, outlining the history behind the Otaki Scholarship, a Scottish-based scholarship awarded to the head boy of Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen that rewards an outstanding pupil at the end of their final year with a seven-week trip to to travel through New Zealand visiting schools and sightseeing.
The scholarship commemorates a sea battle fought in the Atlantic during World War 1, involving Captain Archibald Bisset Smith, a former pupil of Robert Gordons College
Rohan is School Captain and has been offered a place at Cambridge University to study medicine.
He and his host student, Bailey Lissington were able to join the international trip to Tekapo and experience ice skating before he continued his trip around New Zealand.
