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The Bahamas Outstanding Students Foundation hosted the 18th Annual \u201cKeep Your Eyes on the Prize\u201d Awards Ceremony on Thursday, 25th April, 2013 at Government House. More than one hundred fifty (150) primary, junior high and senior high students from public and private schools were honoured during the ceremony for attaining a grade point average of 3.00 or above.<\/p>\n
Jerome Fitzgerald, Minister of Education, Science and Technology brought remarks at the ceremony. Minister Fitzgerald told the honourees that they were among an elite and prestigious group of students who are role models to their peers. The Minister said that he was optimistic that they would make a great impact in the future. He advised the students to be alert, determined and resilient as they keep their eyes on the prize.<\/p>\n
Former Senator, T. Ricardo Whylly, President and CEO of the Bahamas Outstanding Students Foundation presented Sir Orville Turnquest, Former Governor General of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas with the 2013 Trailblazer Award. The award was given for Sir Orville\u2019s distinguished service and support to the Foundation for the past eighteen (18) years.<\/p>\n
Overall Awards were presented to the male and female student from the sixth, ninth and twelfth grade with the highest GPA and student athletes with the highest GPA. The students awarded were as follows:<\/p>\n
Primary School – ACADEMICS\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Garvin Tynes Primary School St. Bede\u2019s Catholic Primary School Christian Heritage School Bayview Academy Primary School – ATHLETICS<\/strong><\/p>\n Palmdale Primary Garvin Tynes Primary School Junior High School – ACADEMICS<\/strong><\/p>\n T. A. Thompson Junior High L. W. Young Junior High Junior High School – ATHLETICS<\/strong><\/p>\n T. A. Thompson Junior High St. Andrew\u2019s School Prince Williams Baptist High School High School – ACADEMICS<\/strong><\/p>\n Kingsway Academy Mt. Carmel Preparatory Academy High School – ATHLETICS<\/strong><\/p>\n St. Andrew\u2019s High School Queen\u2019s College Source: Ministry of Education, Science and Technology<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than 150 primary, junior high and senior high students from public and private schools were honoured during the 18th Annual \u201cKeep Your Eyes on the Prize\u201d ceremony for attaining a grade point average of 3.00 or above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[55,21,140,296],"class_list":["post-35521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-awards","tag-educational","tag-schools","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nShone Nairn 4.00 (F)
\nLillian Rolle 4.00 (F)
\nAlexandria Rolle 4.00 (F)<\/p>\n
\nZiontae Deveaux 4.00 (F)<\/p>\n
\nTre\u2019en Dorsett 4.00 (M)<\/p>\n
\nKiran Ajani Halkitis 4.00 (M)<\/p>\n
\nImmanuel R. Carey 3.68 (M)<\/p>\n
\nAlexandria Rolle 4.00 (F)<\/p>\n
\nChenaniah Errisson-Johnson 4.00 (F)<\/p>\n
\nAkeive Burrows 3.80 (M)<\/p>\n
\nBreanna Pratt 3.30 (F)<\/p>\n
\nKechelle Robinson 3.30 (F)<\/p>\n
\nRhandon Scott 3.15 (M)<\/p>\n
\nRachael Albury 3.92 (F)
\nCharlea Smith 3.92 (F)<\/p>\n
\nKurtwood Greene Jr. 3.86 (M)<\/p>\n
\nAlison Ferguson 3.64 (F)<\/p>\n
\nBrandon Kemp 3.59 (M)<\/p>\n