Mr Young, now a 22-year-old fourth year arts/law student at Monash University, recently represented the university in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Mooting Competition in Budapest, Hungary.

Mooting is the oral presentation of a legal issue or problem against an opposing counsel and before a judge.

Mr Young’s team won against more than 50 teams of law students from all over the world,  which took them on to the next round in Vienna, Austria. 

In Vienna, the team made the top 64 out of 360 teams but were knocked out in the first elimination round.

The travelling did not end there and while overseas, Mr Young, 22, studied law for a month at the Monash campus in Prato, Italy. 

In another month, he’ll be going to study at Monash’s campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

A week after that, he’ll head to to the Ninth University Scholars Leadership Symposium (USLS) held at the United Nations in Bangkok.

Mr Young, who wants to be a lawyer, was dux of Brauer College in 2014 and a Warrnambool City deputy youth mayor in 2013.

Throughout his teenage years, he competed in Rostrum, Legacy and Debating Association of Victoria competitions.

In 2015, he was chosen as the Macpherson Smith Rural Scholar for his community and academic achievements.

The scholarship grants $45,000 over three years to students plus mentoring, leadership development and network building.

The Macpherson Smith Rural Foundation (MSRF) said Mr Young had been a great contributor to the foundation through the young rural leaders program and as a mentor for other rural students.

He is currently working on a MSRF project to bring mentoring to rural VCE students.