Sustainability Award

Has a Positive Impact - The young person must have a meaningful impact in the community by helping protect the environment or enhance the quality of life for their community.

 

Embraces Innovation/Creativity - The young person must demonstrate a commitment to sustainable practice and new and better ways of achieving sustainability.

 

Overcomes Challenges - The young person should be proactively tackling sustainability challenges.

 

Demonstrates Initiative - The young person would have demonstrated action to move sustainability forward at the Boyle River.

 

Resilience Award

The young person has experienced significant hardship or failure and has pursued positivity as a response.

 

The young person will maintain a sense of humour even when times are tough.

 

The young person reframes adversity as an opportunity for growth

 

They display gratitude as more than a feeling. It is a chosen attitude toward life.

 

Respect Award

Self-respect is at the heart of respecting others. When you can identify and appreciate your strengths and accept your vulnerabilities, it's easier to truly respect the value others and mana whenua. The Young person will have mana gained from the manaaki shown to others.

 

Integrity Award

Honesty - The young person tells the truth and does not take advantage of others.

 

Generates trust - The young person must demonstrate their reliability and positive commitment to themselves and others.

 

Taking Responsibility - The young person is entrusted with looking after something and follows through on the project.

 

Helping others - The young person will have demonstrated responding promptly to the needs of others, and being prepared to make sacrifices to accommodate others. 

 

Boyle River Young Adventurer of the Year Award

Curiosity – The young person treats each new and challenging experience as an adventure where you get to learn new things, work with new people, or venture to new ground.

 

Preparation - "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail" says Benjamin Franklin.

 

Team Spirit – The young person must actively promote team cohesion and comradery.

 

Fitness – Displays physical and mental endurance.

 

Grit - When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. In fact, the answer to adversity may not even be verbal. You just grunt a response and continue plodding on.