Moate Community School Student Secures Prestigious UCD Scholarship

Recent graduate Emma Kelly from Rosemount has successfully secured the UCD Ad Astra Scholarship, one of 16 in the country. A well-rounded individual, Emma excels in many different endeavours such as music where she was lead in the school orchestra and she is an accomplished sportswoman in both GAA and Rugby. In 5^th year she represented school and Athlone Rotary Club in Strasbourg as part of their Youth Leadership Programme.

The Ad Astra scholarship programme recruits exceptional students and provides them with additional mentoring and diverse opportunities to continue their proven record of academic excellence.  Scholars pursue their studies in a variety of disciplines such as Medicine, Actuary and Financial Maths, Psychology, Business, Science, Law and Engineering. Emma is studying Engineering with a view to specialising in the biomedical field in future. Ad Astra will provide her with a programme of workshops and seminars by academics, distinguished alumni and guest speakers throughout the year to develop her academic and personal potential as well as affording her opportunities to network.

As part of this scholarship programme she will receive €3,000; this is tenable for the duration of her undergraduate studies. At MCS we have no doubt that Emma will excel in this programme. Congratulations and well done.