Three students from Dickson College’s UAV project have received scholarships from Northrop Grumman Corporation thanks to their work on the colleges’ UAV program.
The company awarded monetary scholarships designed to encourage the recipients to continue studying in the aerospace field, despite the fact that they did not win the national Outback UAV Challenge last year.
The three recipients of the scholarships, given at their graduation, were Stephen Horsburgh, Briana Wade and Saxon Hutchinson. Horsburgh was awarded the Northrop Grumman unmanned aerial systems engineering scholarship. Hutchinson was awarded the Northrop Grumman outstanding achievement in autonomous systems scholarship. Wade was awarded the Northrop Grumman outstanding leadership scholarship.
The school’s ongoing UAV project incorporates students from the college's robotics class as well as IT, mathematics and physics, and develops students' problem-solving skills with real-world applications.
Ian Irving, chief executive of Northrop Grumman Australia said that investing into the science and technology sector was important in strengthening the capability in Australia and generating jobs for the future.
Irving said that the company was committed to the program and are looking at making relationships with key universities in the hope of forming a pathway from the school to university, and then into the aerospace and defence domain.
He also expressed interest in future expanding capability in Australia and specifically looking at cyber engineering, capability and computer science and fundamental research into material science.
Dickson college students Briana Wade and Saxon Hutchinson with Ian Irving, chief executive of Northrop Grumman Australia.
