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Hamilton College pupil wins international award
A BOTHWELL teenager has received an international award for her outstanding academic excellence and promise.
Laura Baird (17), who is head girl at Hamilton College, was awarded £3500, to be used in the first year of her University degree.
The award comes from the GE STARS foundation via New York based charity The Institute of International Education.
The student, who gained five A-grade passes in her Highers last year, is currently studying Advanced Highers in Biology, Chemistry and Latin.
Laura plans to study medicine at Glasgow University next year, although she also has offers from Edinburgh, Dundee and Edinburgh as well as an unconditional offer to study classics.
Having particularly enjoyed her study of Latin and the classics, a further award of £500 has been made to classics teacher Arlene Holmes-Henderson, pictured with Laura, to be used for the benefit of the Latin department.
Between leaving school and beginning university, Laura will travel to Burkina Faso along with nine fellow Hamilton College students and four teachers, as part of Tearfund's TRANSFORM project, to alleviate poverty and improve living conditions in the world's poorest country.
After returning from Africa, she travels with S5 pupil Emily Wood to Rome, in August, where they will participate in Euroclassica's Academia Latina, a prestigious European summer school for the study of Classical languages and literature.
