4th ANNUAL “G.I.F.T.E.D. ROYALTY AWARDS” – Celebration of Youth Excellence!

February 6, 2019

PHILIPSBURG:— G.I.F.T.E.D. Foundation is set to host the 4th Annual “GIFTED Royalty Awards” on Sunday, February 24th, 2019 at the Belair Community Center. There are 6 local high schools participating in this year’s event. In 2015, this initiative was launched with the “Young Kings Awards”, recognizing five dynamic young men from our local high schools in the areas of Athletics, Arts, Academics, Leadership and Community Service. In 2016, this was expanded to include the recognition of our remarkable young women in the same categories, renaming of the awards to “THE G.I.F.T.E.D. ROYALTY AWARDS”. A total of 161 students have been recognized and celebrated since we started in 2015.

In this year’s celebration of youth excellence, over 40 students have been nominated by their high schools for this prestigious recognition of their hard work, dedication, and exemplary standard in their school and in the community.
GIFTED Foundation is a not-for-profit organization focused on youth and community development on St. Maarten/St. Martin and the wider region. The organization’s aim is to continue highlighting the positively outstanding youth of Sint Maarten and subsequently inspire the next generation. The initiatives seek to proactively tackle social ills such as youth delinquency, crime, violence, and child-abuse, among others issues by promoting social values such as education, justice, unity, volunteerism and youth dynamism.

The profiles of all nominees have been posted on the GIFTED Foundation’s Facebook page. In the upcoming weeks, nominees of different categories will be featured in the media. The nominees in the categories of Academics and Athletics for Young Kings and Young Queens are featured below.