GEMS Education announces the launch of the first inter-group 'Year of Zayed' (#gemscelebrateszayed) competitors where each school will certainly develop and implement a student-led project that commemorates and honours the heritage of the late Sheikh Zayed following his vision and worths.

Through this competitors trainees from all GEMS schools in the UAE will certainly be encouraged to design, create and carry out a project that has a favorable impact on their communities while simultaneously celebrating Sheikh Zayed's values. This is over and past all of the Year of Zayed campaigns that have actually been taking place considering that the beginning of the year.

The competitors will certainly take place until December 2018. Students in every school will design, develop and lead various projects covering a vast selection of topics like sustainability, human development, social obligation, ecological, female empowerment and leadership. A total cash prize of 30,000 AED will certainly be provided to the top victors from the whole-school category and the primary school category. The prize needs to be reinvested into the project, to have an also bigger influence on the community

Deema Al-Alami, Vice President of Arabic & Islamic at GEMS Education commented: We are extremely delighted to be creating yet one more, meaningful opportunity for trainees to celebrate Sheikh Zayed's top qualities and values with the use of their innovative, management, social-emotional intelligence to positively impact the communities they live in.

Deema added: One of our preferred quotes of sheikh Zayed is that "The genuine wealth is effort that profits the person and the community. It is immortal and timeless, and forms the value of the human and the nation." That is why we made a decision to create this inter-GEMS competitors, where students are required to actually meditate about just how they could convert Sheikh Zayed's key top qualities and worths right into tasks that will certainly have an impact on their communities and general UAE. "

The competition will not only include students however will certainly have the entire school community collaborated. The Year of Zayed Coordinators in every school, will then need to finish an in-depth application regarding their project and the dimension of the effect it has on the community. These applications will certainly be assessed and afterwards trainees of the picked tasks will have a chance to offer their projects before a panel in the Closing Occasion. The panel will certainly consist of the champion of GEMS Mariamma Varkey Award, Outstanding Head of School Champion senior administration who will examine the tasks and identify the winners.

Ms. Ghadeer Abu-Shamat, Superintendent/ CEO of Al Khaleej National School commented: "At GEMS Education we have constantly believed in inculcating good values to our students and nothing can be better compared to learning the worths of UAE's founding father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. This competition is greater than an occasion for us as we commemorate the 'Year of Zayed' and his remarkable success and values he has passed on to everybody. We desire our trainees to cherish these worths and learn from them as they relocate a step ahead in their life."