CSSS UPDATE | 2ND EDITION 2014 | PG11
GENERAL NEWS
SDS STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARDS 2014 The Annual Student Leadership Awards of the Student Development and Support Division took place on 10 October 2014 and was again a rousing success. The SDS Awards aim to recognise our students’ achievements in the co-curricular space and give honour to their outstanding performance. The co-curriculum not only serves to provide opportunities to develop skills essential to promote employability for our students, but it also serves to offer engagement opportunities which are highly correlated to academic success. Students who are engaged perform better academically, and are in a better position to secure employment. There are nine categories: Student Governance Leadership, Student Leadership, Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Student Mentoring, Student Tutoring, Academic Support, Student Orientation and Student Assistants. To be considered as finalist, each student needed to demonstrate development in the Graduate Attributes, demonstrate ethical leadership and conduct, embrace the idea of a living and learning environment at UWC, show commitment to the ethos of SDS, maintain a good working relationship and be in good standing with students and staff, demonstrate a clear sense of accountability, responsibility and initiative and be an academic achiever. Our top achievers were Francis Chiparawasha (male) & Jaclisse Lorene Mayoma (female) Other special awards were a recognition award presented to UWC choir who received top accolades in international championships and the UWC Whizz Kids who were recognised by the International World of Computing in the International Student Cluster Competition.