Steven Shephard
Contingent Leader
Steven is an Assistant Venturer Leader and Assistant Scout Leader for the 1st Mudgee Scout Group in the Golden West Region in NSW. He was a member of the younger sections in Townsville before becoming a Rover with the Drayton Rover Crew in Toowoomba and later the North Lake Macquarie Rover Crew near Newcastle before being booted in 2021.
In his professional life, he work as an electrical engineer on a mine site managing projects and maintenance tasks.
He has previously attended multiple World Jamborees and World Moots, giving him a great appreciation of International Scouting and travelling. In fact, He was the Contingent Leader to the 1st Africa Rover Moot in 2023 which was a highly challenging yet rewarding event.
One of the reasons he is excited about the event is being able to provide a life-changing experience to Rovers which unfortunately wasn’t possible in 2021. He knows from personal experience how amazing World Moots are, so he hopes as many Rovers from Australia as possible can experience such an event too.
Nicholas Kammin
Deputy Contingent Leader
He has been a scout at Kedron Scout Group in Brisbane since starting in Joeys and has been through each section to now being Assistant Unit Leader for his Rover unit and also a Cub Scout Leader. Most recently He was a Unit Leader for Australia at the KISC100 event which is such an incredible location.
Outside of scouts, He enjoy hiking, running, watching any type of Motorsport and seeing live music. He also currently studying at university and working part-time.
He is very keen to be able to share this experience with all the other rovers from across the country. He probably most looking forward to being able to meet all of you and being able to explore a new part of the world.
Peter Favelle
Contingent Advisor
He was lucky enough to have this role with the last World Moot Contingent to Ireland that very unfortunately did not go ahead and hopefully there’s no global pandemic this time, at least not until the end of post tour.
Following his time as a Rover he was appointed Assistant Rover Commissioner of NSW then State Rover Advisor and he is now a member of his Group Committee and a Fellowship Member.
As a day job he is a Quality Manager in the Defence Sector with all my spare time devoting to chasing his two future Joeys.
This will be his 4th World Moot and he is looking forward to making it the best one yet! There’s quite a lot of work for the team to get done between now and the Opening Ceremony in 2025 to make sure everyone has a fantastic Moot experience meeting 5000 Rovers from all around the world in Portugal and he is trilled to be a part of it.
Samuel Thomas
Admin and Finance Manager
Sam started his Scouting journey at 10 years old in the Scout section in Melbourne, and is currently a Rover at Hatfield Rover Unit and a Venturer leader at Bunurong Tangenong Venturers.
He has been involved in multiple contingents over the past few years, as the Admin and Finance lead for the KISC100 Australian Contingent, Operations Lead for the 2024 New Zealand Jamboree Australian Contingent, and most recently as the Australian Contingent Leader for the 81st New Zealand Moot. More locally, He is the head of the audio department at Melbourne Gangshow and an active in his local Rovering and Scouting communities.
Outside of Scouts, Sam is studing environmental science and international relations and work part time as an audio technician. He loves to travel internationally, having lived (and Scouted) abroad multiple times throughout his life. He super excited to see what exciting adventures the World Moot has to hold for us, and grateful for the opportunity to help make this happen. He can’t wait to meet everyone in Portugal in 2025!
Caitlin Durant
Marketing Manager
Caitlin started in scouts at Heany Park Scout Group as a Joey and She is now part of Ken Tickell Rover Unit in Victoria.
he have been Vice-Chair of Mudbash 2023, on the Surfmoot committee as committee welfare and marketing assistant, Stage Manager of Whitehorse Showtime for 5 years, part of the Rover Scout Motorsport team, secretary for Mafeking Rover Park on the 2022-2023 committee and Past Chair of 2023-2024 Mafeking Management Team. She also attend the 2015 World Jamboree in Japan and the 2023 World Jamboree in Korea.
In my everyday life Caitlin is a receptionist at a community health organisation. She love seeing live theatre shows, playing with her dog “Boots” and exploring the outdoors.
She so excited to get over to Portugal for this once in a lifetime event and to make memories that will last a life time. She can’t wait to share this journey with you all.
Gemma Park
Health & Wellbeing Manager
Gemma has been scouting since she was 6 years old and concluded her youth program at Manderson Rovers in Victoria, where she was booted in 2022.
More recently Gemma has worked on Health teams at KISC100 Australian Contingent, Venture ‘24 and local Rover events. She currently living the Scouting dream as a Summer Pinkie at KISC.
She is keen to assist you all to experience the joys of international scouting while keeping safe and well. Her H&W team and Gemma will be here to support you to make the most of your Moot adventure!
Jessica Hernandez
Optional Tour’s Manager
Jess has been a scouting since they where 6 years old, and still has a couple years left in Rovers.
They are now finishing up my term as the Queensland BRC chair, having been an event chair in the past (and again this year) as well as Finance officer. Currently Jess is a scout leader at North Ipswich and a Rover with Downlands Rover Unit in Brisbane South Region.
Jess loves of travelling started in 2017 as a venturer on SISEP in Denmark, since then they have made many trips to visit their family in Spain and explore other countries like Norway, Switzerland, New Zealand and the UK. Most recently having been to KISC100 as an assistant Unit Leader, they excited for this new challenge.
Outside of scouting Jess is in my final year of studying Criminology and Criminal Justice, while working as an International Coordinator for a Removals company. In their spare time you’ll find Jess training and competing in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Jess is excited for the Moot as it’s truly a once in a lifetime opportunity, with lifelong memories and friendships to be made.
Calista Beck
IST Manager
Calista joined scouts as a Rover and a couple of years later went to World Moot in Kenya. Since then they gone to multiple World, national and local moots.
Calista was on the CBR Moot Team and held this role for the cancelled World Moot in Ireland.
They are hoping many booted Rovers, as well as others, will want to join the contingent and make this first post pandemic World Moot as great as Iceland was.
