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The Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum award for Distinguished Academic Performance

An award completes the sense of an accomplishment. An award is your hard work’s reward. It also acts as an energizer to set your goals higher and accomplish more. The happiness that one finds when an award is won is unmatched. The Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum award for Distinguished Academic Performance is based on the above emotions. His highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum who belongs to the deep rooted dynasty of Al Maktoum which rules the Dubai emirate in the UAE, is well known for his humanitarian interests and fondness of culture, literature and scientific developments. His highness has keen interest in the field of science, medicine and education. He has been involved in not only setting up exemplary institutes in the UAE and GCC but also in various rewards programs to increase healthy competition and in turn higher standards. The Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum award for Distinguished Academic Performance awards distinguished teachers, educational institutes, social workers, supervisors, Best Scientific Innovation, Best Applied project, the distinguished parent and above all students – young minds for their Excellency in academics. These awards nurture the young minds with a sense of positive competition and as they grow with this sense they become better citizens of tomorrow. 96 awards are awarded to distinguished students. Students who excel at their academics are marked to set higher standards and become the model citizens of the UAE and GCC. These awards have been extended to other GCC nations to encourage more and more pupils to work for a better tomorrow. A distinction certificate, Distinguished Student cup and a cash prize of Dhs 15,000 is offered as the prize. A teacher probably holds the most responsible job on this planet, nurturing the young minds. As children grow, they learn from their teachers. The Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum award for Distinguished Academic does the justice to highly distinguished teachers by awarding 5 awards under this category. The award comprises of a distinction certificate, a Highly Distinguished Teacher cup and a cash reward of Dhs 50,000. 41 awards are categorized as Distinguished Teachers and a certificate, cup and cash prize of Dhs 20,000 is awarded. Best Scientific Project, Best Educational Research, Best Applied Project, Best Applied Research in the Arab Nation are awarded to increase the creativity and innovation in the scientific fields. These awards help fuel the innovative minds to come up with new ideas and help in the growth of the UAE and GCC world. Needless to say, the innovations receive a world wide attention and have a wider audience. 17 awards are awarded for the aforementioned categories with cash prizes ranging from Dhs 15,000 – Dhs 20,000. Distinguished social/psychological worker award of distinction certificate, cup and Dhs 20,000 is awarded to those who are active participants of the social/psychological work. This encourages more people to look at social work as something integral to human nature and not as a time-pass-thing-to-do. This award covers only the UAE. Distinguished School and Administration and Educational Zone are awarded to increase the competitive spirit among educational institutes. This makes them think and come up with innovative and better ways of providing high class education along with facilities and safety for students and teachers. If school becomes a home, then the child, teacher and the parent are at peace. These awards are awarded to 20 institutes in the UAE and GCC countries and 1 award goes to an Educational Zone – the zone in the UAE which has the highest success rate. The schools take home a distinction certificate, cup and cash prize of Dhs 50000 whereas the Best Zone takes a whooping Dhs 100,000 with it. A family is the first teacher of a child. An ideal family instills those values in a child that not even the best educational institute can mould. A teacher or a school can only develop from a basic level. The base is already laid out by the family. Keeping these sentiments in mind, 5 awards to the best families known as Distinguished Families is given. They take home a distinction certificate, a cup and Dhs 25000/-. Not to mention a complete satisfaction of building a family. Distinguished supervisor award is to bring out the best in supervisory roles. They take home a distinction certificate, a cup and Dhs 20000. The Oldest Adult learner award is to motivate more and more uneducated adults to get back to education and learning. Better late than never applies here as the person takes home a distinction certificate, a cup and Dhs 10,000/-. Not to mention a huge feeling of relief at heart for getting back to basics of life and being rewarded at that! The students, teachers, institutes have to fill in an application form and submit to the awards body of The Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum award for Distinguished Academic Performance. Based on the results of tests, evaluations done by the awards committee team comprising of experts in these fields the results are announced. A calendar of events, procedures for application, eligibility criteria and application forms are available at the website http://www.ha.ae.

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