A Tauranga student has been awarded a $10,000 scholarship to further his quest to become New Zealand's first drone engineer.
Otumoetai College student Callum Riddington was one of 15 recipients at the AMP National Scholarships Awards evening last night.
Callum had been researching and developing an unmanned aerial system (drone) for his college for aerial filming at school events, search and rescue following natural disasters in the Pacific and agricultural and environmental monitoring.
He was ready to take his knowledge to a wider audience and the AMP Study Start Scholarship would enable him to study engineering, with a major in software engineering.
His secondary study course would be in computer science so he could gain more knowledge and build innovative solutions.