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Overall, nine Jamaicans are in the top
120, and the field will be
narrowed
down to 12 individuals who will be qualified or as they coin it, ‘someone
who is of merit’, The top 12 individuals selected from around the world will be flown to the United Kingdom for
the finals where the ultimate winner will become the Your Big Year Ambassador
and receive a year-long global journey to serve,
inspire and motivate people around the world.
It is the
opportunity of a lifetime with the chance to travel across five continents over
one year, to participate in meaningful service projects, and to engage
community and world leaders. The competition is a
featured event of Global Entrepreneurship Week as it links the entrepreneurial
spirit to global citizenship.
About
Michael Dane Lewis
Michael
is currently the Peer
Counsellor President, 4-H President, Speech and
Drama President, Deputy Head Boy and School's Ambassador. He was also honoured this year with the Prime
Minister’s Youth Award in the category of Arts and Culture for 2012.
Michael was
selected to represent Jamaica in acting at the 16th Annual World Championships of Performing Arts, July 06 – 15, 2012 in Hollywood, California, “The
Entertainment Capital of the World.” He was also given the best overall
designer at the Fashion Mania Show and was awarded a summer school acting
scholarship to attend the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts.
Michael is very activity in his community in 2011 he was 2nd in the Category of Leadership for the Kiwanis Club of Kingston Youth Award - under the patronage of the Governor General of Jamaica; The Hon. Sir Patrick Allen. He was also the Best Male Performer in the JCDC festival of the Performing Arts (2011 and 2012).
Below is a list of the many accomplishment of the great young man.
·
He
was invited to sit with the Governor General of Jamaica at a Youth Consultative
Conference (I believe Initiative; 2011).
·
1st
in the Caribbean Council Quiz Competition held in Jamaica, Rose Hall; St.
Catherine (2011).
·
He
have attained Ten CSEC subjects in
2011: Grade ones: Theatre Arts, Human and Social Biology, Information
Technology, Office Administration - Grade twos: English A, Mathematics,
Visual Arts, Social Studies, Technical Drawing, Grade three:
Chemistry.
·
He
received the highest score for CSEC Theatre Arts in Jamaica and the 4th highest
in the Caribbean.
·
2nd
in the Jamaica 50 Poster Competition (2012).
·
4-H
National Boy of the Year (2011).
At his 2011 Graduation he obtained awards for: Visual Arts, Most Culturally Aware (Social Studies Dept.), Most Helpful (Guidance and Counselling Dept.), Graduate of the Year (Principal’s Award).
·
School:
Prefect, Deputy Head Boy, Peer Counsellor (President), 4- H Club (President),
Speech and Drama Club (President), Environmental Club (President), Photography
Club (President), Key Club (Member) and ISCF Club (Member)
·
Youth Group (President), Decoration Committee (Member), Youth Moderator, Praise
and Worship Leader and V.B.S. Teacher for Intermediate Class
·
Community:
Each one -Teach one G.S.A.T. Classes (Founder)
Michael Dane Lewis is a champion, a scholar
and role model.
About Your Big Year Competition
Smaller Earth is honoured to coordinate
and host Your Big Year,
which is a major proponent of our 2020 vision to positively impact 20 million
people by 2020.
Your Big Year
is a global competition that helps to answer the question “What is global
citizenship and why is it important to us?”
It is the opportunity of a lifetime with
the chance to travel across five continents over one year, to participate in
meaningful service projects, and to engage community & world leaders. The
competition is a featured event of Global Entrepreneurship Week as it links the
entrepreneurial spirit to global citizenship.
In 2010, 44 489 individuals from 168
countries entered this unique Smaller Earth led competition. The top 24 were
brought to Liverpool as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. After a thorough
week of tasks and probing interviews, two winners emerged. 24 year-old
Michael Teoh
and 26 year-old Carielle Doe then took up the life-changing task of their
lives, visiting 22 completely different countries and cultures, meeting world
leaders, innovators, and inspirational entrepreneurs; all in a bid to seek out
the truth about social, economic and political injustice on our planet. An
archive of reports from their trip can be found at here
Over 60 000 people entered from 221
countries for the 2011/12 competition. 16 individuals from 14 different
countries were flown to Liverpool for the finals which reached its climax
on March 16th at the 2012 Global
Entrepreneurship Congress. They competed in a series of challenges to
determine who would be the Smaller Earth Ambassador for 2012/13. The
winner was 24 year-old Ugandan Charles Batte, who impressed the judges with a
real will to make a difference coupled with first-class oratory skills. Charles
began his ambassadorial trip in June 2012 and you can follow his progress
around the world ...here
For more information on the competition,
please visit www.yourbigyear.com.
Jonathan Ortmans, president of Global Entrepreneurship Week, said of the competition, "We are proud that this
fantastic international competition is one of Global Entrepreneurship Week's
featured activities and believe it will again bring many people from many
backgrounds to the theme of entrepreneurship and the positive impact it
invariably has."
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