Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 22: 11 students of KC Public School received bronze awards today morning under the International Award for the Young People (IAYP) Programme in a special ceremony organized at Round Square Centre on school campus, here today.
SDM of North Jammu, M. Alyas Khan, presided over the ceremony as chief guest and gave away certificates and medals to the award winners.
IAYP, originally known as the Duke of Edinburgh Award programme in the UK, is a popular youth empowerment programme all over the world under which young people in the age group of 14 to 25 aspire for Bronze, Silver and Gold awards by setting goals for themselves in four major areas, namely, Service, Adventure, Skill and Physical Recreation and achieve their objectives within a period of 6 months to 2 years.
The students from KCPS who earned the award this year were Reha Krishan, Aayush Jamwal, Jahanvi Gupta, Prajwal Sharma, Divyansh Mahajan, Divyansh Pratap Singh Chib, Sanchita Bakshi, Mitali Gupta, Sambhavi Gupta, Vinayak Trackroo and Anav Jain.
The ceremony began with a motivational group song by school choir group. It was followed by a presentation on the activities of IAYP programme in the school and a documentary made by students during their adventure journey.
The ceremony concluded with vote of thanks presented by Academic Director of the school.
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