What are the Trailblazer Awards?
The Trailblazer Awards celebrates Year 12 students beyond their ATAR, recognising those who have overcome personal challenges and used their final year of school to positively impact their community.
Our Trailblazers will have the opportunity to network with industry leaders, build their personal brand and profile as a future leader, learn key career skills in our 3-day Pathfinder Accelerator, and so much more!
Find out how Naomi navigated Year 12 differently throughout 2021!
Introducing: Naomi Habib
Category: Social Impact and Change
School: Delany College
Career Aspiration: Law/Politics
Achievements
- Co-founder of ‘Fill Your Cup’
- School Captain
- Always finding time to help out others
What makes Naomi a Trailblazer?
Naomi is passionate about all things social justice! She is co-founder of the initiative Fill Your Cup, a project which aims to facilitate discussions about injustices in society, providing a safe environment for young people to discuss these issues, better educate themselves and enact change. It has been a highly successful initiative within her school and has been received very positively by the student body. Naomi’s role as co-founder of this project was to manage publicity, organise logistics and lead group discussions.
Naomi acted as co-founder and facilitator of this initiative, all while performing her duties as school captain, catechist member and managing part-time employment. Pretty impressive, right?
The process of creating and executing Fill Your Cup has seen Naomi develop an array of highly useful skills. Communication and confidence are two which she considers to be particularly important.
Collaborative working relies on effective communication. Having to facilitate the group’s discussions about various social causes meant that Naomi was quick to refine this skill, helping her learn how to convey her ideas succinctly and powerfully to various audiences. Furthermore, learning to have greater confidence in herself has enabled Naomi to be a better leader — one who is able to make decisions and incite action.
Naomi’s high school years were pretty challenging. Her father was undergoing constant dialysis treatment and to help out financially, she got herself a part time job as soon as she could. All of this placed significant pressure on Naomi during her senior years, making it very difficult to focus on her studies and perform well academically. Managing such a full plate was hard, but as her social justice initiative demonstrates, she always found time to give back to her communities.
Naomi aims to complete a law degree. Following this, she will either move into the political sector or remain in the judicial field. Regardless of which career path she chooses to pursue, she hopes to continue her work with social justice.
Naomi’s efforts during Year 12 and passion for helping others needs to be commended. For this reason she has been selected as one of our Top 50 Trailblazers!
The Top 50 Year 12 Trailblazer Awards
The Trailblazer Awards aim to identify and celebrate students who use their final years of school to invest holistically in the skills and experiences that will maximise their own future opportunities and make a contribution to the future of our society.
Our winners for the Year 12 Trailblazer Awards have demonstrated initiative in volunteering for their school or community, have participated in co-curricular activities, and have held leadership positions within their schools.
Learn more about who placed in the Top 50 Year 12 Trailblazers here!
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