AMY Tomic has been selected as East Loddon Lions Club Youth of the Year.
The East Loddon P12 College student will represent the club at district finals next year.
Amy was also awarded the best public speaking prize in last week’s final for her address on mental health and suicide.
Other students in the club final were Mason Hocking, Ned Cartwright, Isabelle Morrison, Brodie Wagner, Isaac Johnstone-McCloud, Daisy Stringer and Jackson Luckman who gave presentations to judges Robert and Colleen Condliffe. Robert is a long-standing member of the Inglewood Lions Club.
Selection of Youth of the Year saw the students interviewed by the judges followed by presentation of  prepared speeches and answering two impromptu questions.
Impromptu questions this year were: “Volunteering, in general, is on the decline, how would you promote volunteering to your peers?” and “We have had two significant flood events in your lifetime.  What do you think are contributing factors?”
Club member and an organiser of the final Dan Straub said: “All the students did a fantastic job of answering the impromptu questions and their prepared speeches, in fact they did such a great job that the judges deliberated for over an hour, finally coming out with our winner and runner up.”
Runner-up in Youth of the Year was Jackson Luckman.  
East Loddon P12 College was thanked for ongoing support of the youth initiative.