Sakhawalkar-Bhatt Citizenship Award
The Sakhawalkar-Bhatt Award commemorates the lives of three North Toronto students, Sanjay Sakhawalkar, his sister Surekha Sakhawalkar, and their friend, Bina Bhatt, who perished in the explosion of an Air India jetliner over the Atlantic in June, 1985.
This award is presented annually to the student in the pre-graduation year who is judged by his or her peers to most represent the qualities of Citizenship, Scholarship, and Leadership to which North Toronto students aspire.
All candidates for the award have made an outstanding contribution to the curricular and extra-curricular life of the school and have demonstrated qualities of citizenship and leadership which make them role models among their peers.
Candidates for this award are selected by members of the teaching staff and representatives of the student body. The winner of the award is determined by the students about to enter their graduation year on the basis of a preferential ballot in late May.
Specific Criteria for Nomination and Selection Candidates will have been students in good standing at the school for at least two years (including the year of entry into the graduation class).
Students will have achieved an average of at least 75% (based on eight grade eleven or six grade twelve North Toronto day school credits) during the school year prior to their entry into the graduation year.
Candidates will have displayed exemplary citizenship during their years at the school, serving as role models for their classroom peers and for younger students in the school.
Although the purpose of this award does not focus on leadership and contribution, candidates will have displayed outstanding leadership (not necessarily in an elected position) and will have made outstanding contributions in at least two major area of extra-curricular life during their years at the school.
This year’s winner, is Sunny Lee!