Layna's 3000km trip to university

By Kelsey Munro and Eryk Bagshaw
Updated March 8 2017 - 11:03am, first published February 9 2017 - 1:23pm
Liam Fogg and Layna Nona at the Aeronautical Engineering department at the University of Sydney.  Photo: Edwina Pickles
Liam Fogg and Layna Nona at the Aeronautical Engineering department at the University of Sydney. Photo: Edwina Pickles
Indigenous students Liam Fogg and Layna Nona at the Aeronautical Engineering department at the University of Sydney's summer outreach camp.  Photo: Edwina Pickles
Indigenous students Liam Fogg and Layna Nona at the Aeronautical Engineering department at the University of Sydney's summer outreach camp. Photo: Edwina Pickles

Layna Nona had never travelled south of Cairns - the Year 9 student is from remote Badu Island in the Torres Strait, and English is her third language - but last month she joined 236 other Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander high school students at a week-long University of Sydney summer camp designed to give them a taste of tertiary life.

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