Student Leadership Awards

When answering the Selection Criteria it is recommended that you apply the STAR technique.

The STAR technique provides a framework for presenting information in response to Selection Criteria. It’s a way of providing clear examples or evidence of your skills, knowledge and approach to work. For each criterion, use the following elements to structure your answers.

Situation

Describe the situation/environment you were in.

Task

What goal were you working toward?

Action

What did you do? Set out the steps you took to achieve the result. Be detailed.

Result

What was the outcome? What did you accomplish? Did you achieve the goal you set out to achieve? What did you learn? Promote yourself and your achievements.

This award recognises the outstanding contribution of a current VU undergraduate student to the VU community; this student embraces what it means to be an undergraduate student at Victoria University: the University of Opportunity and Success.

The recipient of this award will receive a $300 prize.

Additional eligibility criteria

Must be a current VU undergraduate student.

Selection criteria

1. Describe what you have done to benefit the VU and/or broader undergraduate student community and tell us what the impact was.
2. Tell us about how participating in these activities helped you develop your critical thinking / problem solving and/or creativity skills.
3. Tell us about how participating in these activities helped you develop your communication and/or collaboration skills.
4. Tell us about how participating in these activities helped you develop your persistence, adaptability and/or social and cultural awareness.
5. Tell us how your activities align with one or more of VU's Values of Always WEST: Welcoming, Ethical, Shaping the future, being Together.

This award recognises a Victoria University Polytechnic student who has demonstrated an ability to assist and lead within the classroom and practical environment or displays leadership and involvement in co-curricular and/or extracurricular activities.

The recipient of this award will receive a $300 prize.

Selection criteria

1. Must be a current Victoria University Polytechnic student.
2. Tell us what you are studying.
3. Tell us how your actions have displayed persistence, adaptability and/or social and cultural awareness, and improved the experience of other VU Polytechnic/TAFE students.

This award recognises an individual or group of current Victoria University students for a project in progress or completed during 2023 that seeks to protect and improve the health and wellbeing of our local and global communities, and/or the planet we share.

The recipient of this award will receive a $300 prize for an individual or a $600 prize for a team.

Selection criteria

1. Describe your project and how it aims to protect and improve the health and wellbeing of our local and global communities, and/or the planet we share.
2. Provide examples of how your project benefits the VU community and/or broader community and tell us what the impact is.
3. Describe how your project has resulted in learning for you or your team and/or others.
4. Tell us how your project aligns with one or more of VU's Values of Always WEST: Welcoming, Ethical, Shaping the future, being Together.

Mr Raj Kannan is one of Victoria University’s distinguished 90 Legends.

He graduated from Footscray Institute of Technology (FIT) in 1988 with a Bachelor of Engineering. He is currently Partner and Executive Director, Deloitte Consulting South East Asia. He was President of the Overseas Student Association and Co-President of the Student Representative Council and involved in other student leadership activities.

Mr Kannan believes that the leadership experience he gained at FIT was invaluable to his later career and as such he is passionate about giving back to the University.

As a result Mr Kannan has established a scholarship that will support and encourage students to undertake leadership activities at VU. This prestigious award comes with a prize in the form of a $5,000 scholarship.

Additional eligibility criteria

• Must be an undergraduate student enrolled at Victoria University and not in the final year of study.
• Must have participated in at least one VU Leadership Activity (e.g. LEAD Program, Students as Partners, Clubs Executive, VU Academy, VU Hanger, VU Student Union Board Member etc.).

Selection criteria

1. High-level leadership experience: give examples of how you have demonstrated leadership that has benefited your fellow students and the VU community.
2. Championing social inclusion: give examples of participation in causes or activities that champion social inclusion, cultural diversity, and equity.
3. Leadership skills: describe how you are taking responsibility for developing your leadership skills. Please give examples.
4. Using your scholarship: give examples of how you would use this scholarship to further your leadership and professional development or to further your education.
5. Support from the VU community: provide 2 supporting testimonials from mentors or peers to demonstrate why you are deserving of this award.

Recipient obligations

The recipient will be required to provide a report to the Scholarships office for VU and the donor showcasing their activities and impact of receiving the award.

The recipient will be required to sit on the Selection Panel to determine the Raj Kannan Leadership Scholarship recipient for the following year.

The recipient will also have the opportunity to participate in the Student Leadership Awards ceremony as a presenter or student host.