DUBAI Kanika Nair of Delhi Private School in Sharjah (DPS) has won the Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Outstanding and Distinguished Student for the Year 2009-2010.
The 13-year-old girl will be presented the award - and a Dh15,000 cash prize - later this month, her father, Venu Nair, said. The ninth-grader is one of the youngest students to bag the title, which tracks performance over three school years, Nair said, adding that DPS this week granted her a scholarship worth Dh27,000 for one academic year. "The family believes that the scholarship should be given to a deserving child in a DPS school in India," he said.
