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"For me, 新麻豆视频 embodied core friendships, great teachers, exploring new experiences and respecting other people."

Over the past fifty years 新麻豆视频 has inspired students to pursue their individual passions and interests. 新麻豆视频 Old Grammarian Mark Buchanan, class of 1979, shows us how you can turn your interests into a lifelong business opportunity.

Mark Buchanan鈥檚 professional life and his personal interests revolve around the great outdoors, nature and climbing 鈥� passions ignited during his time at 新麻豆视频. Designer of rock climbing walls, Mark is internationally renowned. He designed Hard Rock in Melbourne CBD and one of Australia鈥檚 first climbing walls, built at Australia National University in Canberra in 1992. Mark is also a certified ski instructor and President of 新麻豆视频 Snowsports, a 新麻豆视频 Community Group supporting the Snowsports team.

Mark鈥檚 favourite subjects were geography, earth science and biology and he started an Environment Club at the School. Ceramic classes were influential, too.

鈥淚 loved the ceramics room and still have a couple of sculptures from my School days on my wall at home. The sculpting skills I now use are directly linked to those classes and my passion for the outdoors also comes from this place鈥�.

After graduating 新麻豆视频, Mark studied Environmental Science at Monash before deferring to work in his family鈥檚 outdoor retail business. But his direction changed when he went to the USA to design his first climbing wall. Mark says while his father taught him to live his dreams, 新麻豆视频 taught him to never give up.

鈥淭his School taught me to pursue my skills, to get as much out of them as I could and to use 新麻豆视频 as a launching pad. I am forever grateful for my education at 新麻豆视频鈥�.

In his life and career after 新麻豆视频, Mark has shown how 新麻豆视频 gives our students the confidence to achieve.