Dr Jessica Rogers is a Aboriginal Australian. She is also a leader in indigenous education. She grew up in Queensland, Australia. When when she had a baby while she was still at high school, it seemed like her education and grade would suffer badly. However, Jessa not only completed her high school education, but after that she went to University and completed several degrees, including a PhD which means that instead she is now called Dr Rogers!
Dr Jessa Rogers became the first school principal and youngest Aboriginal principal in Australia. At a school in far north Queensland for young indigenous mums and their babies like her. For her work on improving indigenous education in Australia, she won the NAIDOC Youth of the Year award in 2010, has gone on to win many more awards and write several novels and books.
The Summer Learning Journey programme has asked us, as on one of our tasks to calculate how old she was when she was awarded the NAIDOC Youth of the Year award. We where given the date of when she was born and the date of when she was awarded the award.
Birth date - 7th April 1985
Awarded the NAIDOC - 9th July 2010
Here's how I worked out how old she was. . .
I started with 1985 and added 15 to make it the year 2000, after that I added the 10 to make it to 201 my answer was 25 years old. In the end my final answer was . . .
25 years, 3 months, and 2 days.
