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Prize awards

Awarding prizes to Czech children

On 30 May 2012 the best child-winners from Czech schools were awarded medals at the ceremonial opening of the exhibition in the garden of the Lidice Gallery.

The same day saw also the crystal palette, the Prize of the ICEFA 2012 Panel of Judges, being awarded to the Kocaelil Bahcesehir Koleji from Kocaeli, Turkey. The prizes received 9 child-winners from this school, their teachers and president of the School Mr. Mahnut Kalci.

The certificates and medals for other Czech children were dispatched in June 2012 and the relevant schools and organizations will ensure their handover to the winners. Letters of thanks to the non-winning schools were sent out the same day.

Prize awards abroad

The certificates and medals for the child-winners abroad will be sent out to the diplomatic missions in the relevant countries in early September 2012, which will subsequently arrange the handover of the prizes.

The way of awarding the prizes depends on accepted practices and possibilities of staffs of the respective embassies (or perhaps Czech centres) – often there is a festive programme at the embassy arranged for the child winners, including refreshments and cultural performances, in which the ambassador himself awards the children prizes. The ambassador often visits the respective schools and grants prizes directly in the school, or if long distances are involved, the prizes are sent out to children and schools by post.

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