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Go-Local Jamaica, 01 April 2004

Clarendon College wins The Show Your Comunity To The World Competition

Clarendon College was ajudged the overall winner of the The Gleaner's Go-LocalJamaica Show Your Community to the World Competition and received an all expense paid trip to London, England courtesy of Cable and Wireless Jamaica Ltd.

The elated team, which hails from the hills of Chapelton, Clarendon, was yesterday presented with the main prize by Camille Facey, senior vice-president of legal, regulatory and public policy at the offices of the The Gleaner Company Ltd, North Street, downtown Kingston.

The main prize trip will include airfare, hotel accomodation, meal allowance, spending money and a one week scholarship at the Cable and Wireless Childnet Academy in London for two representatives from the Clarendon College Website team.

The team from Clarendon was selected after six months of intense competition among 30 schools which entered the competition from across the island. The competition required schools to submit interesting articles and materials about their school and community on the Go-Local Jamaica website. The inaugural competition was launched last September and culminated March 15.

"I feel really elated to know that we have won the competition and that I have been chosen to go to London, England to represent my school and to be an ambassador for Jamaica also," Jaevion Nelson remarked. "I feel totally happy and proud with myself and happy with how my school has taught me to be really determined and dedicated in whatever I do," he added.

Ms. Facey in congratulating the team, also commended The Gleaner Company on launching the competition. In fact, she said this was tantamont to the efforts being made by Cable and Wireless in the United Kingdom to promote and encourage students from around the world to develop marketable technology savvy skills with the establishment of the Childnet Academy which teaches young people how to develop quality websites.

The final awards presentation will take place on April 30 when the remainder of the winning prize will be presented, as well as the prizes for the runners-up in the competition.

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