By Munirat Adenekan
A student of Soltab Comprehensive College, Oke-Ata, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Miss Maryam Idris, has emerged the Silver Award Winner of the 2024 edition of Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition.
By this feat, Maryam Idris, has once again put Ogun State on a global radar, achieving a greater feat after her sister, Mujeebat Idris who won Bronze in 2021.
The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition (QCEC) is the world’s prestigious oldest international schools’ writing contest, established by the Society in 1883.
Her essay topic Essay Topic: You’re on a school exchange in a Commonwealth country different to your own. How do you make friends with people your age? (Consider similarities and differences in culture that may unite you) won her Silver Award in the competition for which over 30,000 students entered around the world.
Congratulating Idris, the organizers wrote as follows:
“Thank you for participating in The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2024 and for sharing your wonderful creativity and ideas with the Commonwealth family.
“We are delighted to inform you that your entry was given a Silver Award and am pleased to attach your printable award certificate.”
The certificate jointly signed by the Executive Chair, Royal Commonwealth Society, Dr Linda Yueh and two other lead judges, Femi Elufowoju and Caroline Haines adjudged Maryam Idris as Silver Award winner of the 2024 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition.
An omnivorous reader and voracious writer, Idris has represented her school in several competitions and has led her competitive class in four out of six terms she has been in the school.
Asked about her interest and expectations from Commonwealth Award, Idris who wishes to study Engineering after her college, seeks a full scholarship from her secondary up to the university level.
