Vol I, Issue 1, Alumni Newsletter; March 22, 2023

Where did it all begin?

The Award in Action

Alumni Interview Series

Our Gold Award Alumni, Akash Biradar has completed his B.E in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from RV College of Engineering, Bangalore and MBA in Marketing from Christ University, Bangalore. He is now a Digital Sales Accounts Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HP)

In conversation with our team, Akash remembers his Award Journey, and hopes to encourage young people to pursue the Award. The full interview is available on our YouTube Channel and can be accessed here - https://youtu.be/_fMjx2IbYFs

Looking back at your Gold Award Ceremony!

HRH The Earl of Wessex KG GCVO at our Gold Award Ceremony in February, 2018

Chief Guest Sir Dominic Asquith KCMG, United Kingdom’s High Commissioner to India at our Gold Award Ceremony in July, 2018

Chief Guest General MM Naravane, Former Chief of Army Staff at our Gold Award Ceremony in 2022

2023 Social Value Research

The International Award for Young People is committed to offering the best quality support that all adults associated with the Award expect and deserve in order to have an efficient and fun-filled Award journey!

As our alumni, you are integral to providing constructive feedback to us.
Your answers here will help us understand and quantify the value of the social impact of the Award for those involved in the Award and for the wider community in general.

This will enable us to celebrate and communicate the long-term positive impact caused by all of your hard work with the Award.

The survey will take 10-15 minutes to complete, and no follow up involvement is required. All responses to this survey will remain anonymous, so please feel free to be honest and open when answering the survey.

A big thank you in advance for further supporting the Award by completing this survey!

Please click the link below to fill the survey-
https://intaward.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dogMpbHRygYXWuy

Alumni Reconnect

With the launch of a new initiative named "Alumni Reconnect" we at The International Award for Young People, India hope to reconnect with our dispersed alumni and keep them informed of all of our current activities. To help us, please provide your updated details with the button below.

You will have pleasant recollections and memories of your time spent with The Award Programme and all the friendships and learning that occurred over your Award journey. Thanks to its four divisions—Voluntary Service, Skill, Physical Recreation, and Adventure Journey—The Duke of Edinburgh's Award is the leading organization in non-formal education for young people all over the world.

We are trying to update our database of alumni and we need your help with this task. Before we say goodbye for now, could you please update your details at this link: https://forms.gle/sJFK9H7wdG2k1Koh8 and share it with any friends who were part of the Award family too?

Become a part of our Alumni Network on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9316154/

Looking forward to being in touch! See you soon in our next edition!