President’s awards at Riversdale

The President's Award is a scheme set up by the President to acknowledge exceptional achievement by young people between 15 and 25 years. Split up into gold, silver and bronze awards, the fact that only 50 people nationally receive the top award every year shows how demanding they are.

In order to achieve a bronze award the young person has to take on four major challenges in the areas of personal skill development, voluntary work, physical fitness and go on a 35km Adventure trip.  The award takes six months to complete and the silver challenges take double that, requiring practically one year to meet all the criteria.

Last month, thirty students from Riversdale Community College received their bronze and silver President's Awards. They had all helped every week in many local community groups including the Order of Malta, homework clubs, youth clubs and sports clubs and were great role models for younger teenagers.  The group developed a wide range of skills between them - music, entrepreneurship and first aid being the most popular.

“Some of the silver award recipients are now going for gold, which will take them about three years,” said Riversdale’s awards coordinator Susan Robinson. “They hope to volunteer in Africa as part of their challenge. We wish them well in their efforts and congratulate them and the school on their achievements to date.”

For the record, the successful silver award recipients were: Fola Asarakun, Aaron Buckely, Brian Bustamente, Nicole Colmey, Dean Farrell, Carla Halligan, Craig Kelly, Naomi Marie Rose, Ian Moran, Kenneth Page, Claire Smith, Gavin Smullen, Alexandru Sulea and Patrick Whelan.

 

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