Bobbeth Colebrook, a member of the BTC Flight 242 Junior Achievement Company, receives her award for ‘Most Distinguished Achiever.

Nassau, N.P. - A team member of the BTC Flight 242 Junior Achievement Company, Bobbeth Colebrook, beat out more than 500 competitors to take first place honours and the individual title of ‘Most Distinguished Achiever’ in this year’s annual Junior Achievement programme; she also won the Speech Competition.

Winners in all categories were named at the Awards Banquet at Atlantis on Saturday May 16th and the Bahamas Telecommunications Company-sponsored team had their best year in the past decade to win team and individual honours.

Executive Advisor Barry Wilmott, who has guided teams from BTC over 24 years, said this year he gave a different goal to his youngsters.

“I made a commitment that this year I would motivate and coach them to also see the wisdom of winning individual titles in addition to winning team awards. Over the years I have come to recognise that if you also develop, mentor and coach our future leaders for individual glory they will go on to win awards throughout their life.”

BTC Flight 242 Company took home 17 awards overall; they achieved 1st and 3rd place in the Top Scores category with Ashlee Colebrook scoring a perfect 100% and Alexis Hamilton scoring 97.5. The team president Italia Clarke placed 2nd for Top Sales Person and three company officers were finalists for Company Officer of the Year award. Ashlee Colebrooke took 1st place in the Junior Achievement Exam and Alexis Hamilton, 3rd place. Ashlee also received the Emerald Award Scholarship, Joshua McKenzie the Johnson & Wales University Scholarship and Derek Whyms the Culinary Scholarship.

“Our company came in 3rd for Highest Return on our company dividend in the amount of $52.86 per share. The Dividend cheque will be paid on May 30th. Overall all we had a very successful year due to the contributions of each of the team members and the guidance and motivation of the mentors and my Advisory Team.” 

BTC Flight 242 Company was made up of 50 members with an Advisory Board of 16 volunteers headed by Barry Wilmott. The team consisted of high school students from Grades 10 through 12 with an average age of 16.

BTC Flight 242 President Italia Clarke proudly displays the company’s certificate of achievement.

Members of BTC flight 242 JA Company enjoy the Junior Achievement Banquet.