PHILIPSBURG:--- For the eight consecutive year, the St. Maarten Lions Club honored young students of cycle 2 group 4 at the club’s annual Student Excellence Awards ceremony. This year the title sponsor was N.V. GEBE as they have been the sponsor for the past three years. The St. Maarten Lions Club wishes to thank the utility company for their valuable contributions.
The St. Maarten Lions Club the club recently invited 17 youngsters to the Lion’s Den on the Sucker Garden Road, and acknowledged their performance in the presence of their families, teachers and theirs peers. The selection of 17 youngsters by their respective schools was based solely on their social growth and/or contribution to the school and community.
The seventeen (17) very deserving students received a Certificate of Excellence, as well as a $360 gift voucher which they may use towards any activity or interest of their choice. In the past, students have used their gift towards events such diving lessons or a tablets. But it can also be used towards a new baseball uniform, dance class, art classes, books, and much more.
In his welcome remarks, Club President, Lion Eldert Louisa, emphasized the importance of acknowledging, not only the academic performance of our youth, but also their social merits. It is their “social performance that will make them our leaders of tomorrow”.
Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports, Silveria Jacobs, was proud of the 17 youngsters. She thanked the St. Maarten Lions Club for acknowledging them every year, expressed the importance of highlighting the good in our youth more often than we normally do, and especially applauded the acknowledgment of students before the ending of the school year.
Participating schools were the Ruby Labega School, Leonald Connor School, Prince Willem Alexander School, M.G. de Weever School, Helmich Snijders Campus, Asha Stevens Campus, Oranje School, Dr. M.L. King School, Sr. Borgia School, Sr. Magda School, Sr. Regina School, Sr. Marie Laurence School, St. Joseph school, St. Dominic School, Seventh Day Adventist School, Methosdist Agogic Center Schools Rev. J. A. Gumbs Campus and the Browlia F. Maillard Campus.
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