Medals & distinctions

Adam and Farouk Al-Qawwas were crowned kick-boxing world champions at competitions held in Germany.

The school presented the result as “an honourable global achievement that Lycée National Schools are proud of, and that raises Lebanon’s name high”.

Lycée National won the table-tennis tournament of the sports meetings run by the Ministry of Education across the schools of Lebanon, in the governorate round.

Hala Damaj took second place in Mount Lebanon and Samer Damaj fourth — then third at a later edition. Both students qualified for the Lebanon championship.

Alma Fadi Tahfe took second place in artistic gymnastics in her age group at the schools championship run by the sports unit of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, and third place at meetings held in Dubai. The school gave her a cash prize and a trophy.

Tamara Fadi King took first place in the schools rhythmic-gymnastics championship in her age group.

Ibrahim Khalil El Kassar won the gold medal in kata at the Lebanon championship held by the Lebanese karate federation.

Tala Hassan El Sanji, in Grade 10 of the French section, won the gold medal at the International Tournament held by the Georgian National Karate Federation in Georgia. The owners and president of the schools presented her with a symbolic prize of 400,000 Lebanese pounds.

Ali Nasab won the gold medal at the Lebanon Muay Thai championship, kids and juniors categories.

Jihad Ahmad Mahdi, of the Beirut campus, won the gold medal nationally at the “Lebanese Muay Thai Championship Kids and Juniors 2017”.

Aya Kurdi, of Grade 2 in the English section, won the gold medal in the juniors category of the fourth Arab throwing-strength championship, organised by the Arab federation for throwing and self-defence sports with the Lebanese organisation LWACA, within the second Mediterranean Open martial-arts championship.

Lycée National won the 2015-2016 badminton tournament organised by the sports and scouting unit of the Ministry of Education, held across the schools of Lebanon.

Dani Mortada took first place nationally.

Secondary students entered six scientific and innovative projects at the fair organised by the Arab University’s faculty of science.

The “Light Center” project — by Rine Saab, Wissam Moustafa, Joelle Abou Chakra, Nina Salman, Jana El Zaar and Sara Imad, of the Bekaata campus — and the “Runway Safety Clearing System” project — by Mohamad Dandachli, of the Choueifat campus — each won a full scholarship to the Arab University.

“Mawaheb min Loubnan” — Talents from Lebanon — is the educational project launched by Fransabank to run scientific and educational competitions nationally.

The school entered in physics and was distinguished by the win of Hani Naeem, of Grade 10 in the English section, who took third place among thirty students from different schools and received a prize of 1,000 dollars at a ceremony attended by parents and supervising teachers.

The participating students were supervised by Dr Mahdi Mansour, head of the physics department at Lycée National Schools.

At the “Arts Fair & Sciences” competition run by LAU, Rim El Masri of Lycée National Choueifat took second place in the English-language short-story competition and won the silver medal.

Lycée National Semkhaniyeh took second place in a science competition, “Science Rally Rules”, run by MUBS university. The winners, all in Grade 11 across the English and French sections, were Wassim Zebian, Hadi El Baaini, Rim Saab and Youssef El Achkar — each received a prize of two hundred US dollars.

The Lycée National choir took first place in the fourth annual Zaki Nassif festival competition, “a choir from every school”, in 2012.

The competition ran across the schools of Lebanon and brought together eleven of them; Lycée National had already won second prize in the same competition in 2011.

Choir director: Ziad El Ahmadieh, head of the Lycée National music department, composer and arranger.

In 2010 the Makhzoumi Foundation, under the supervision of the United Nations Programme and the Ministry of Education, organised the “Peace Poem – Peace Song” competition.

Nassim Essam Bou Ghanam, of Lycée National Choueifat, won first prize in a contest between 165 public and private schools.

The poem was recorded on CD and distributed to every school in Lebanon and to the media, in the voice of the singer Carole Aoun, to music by the composer Elias Rahbani.

The student had been coached by the poet Mahdi Mansour, who supervises the school’s poetry club.

Lycée National Choueifat swept the first places at the short-story competition run by the Ministry of Culture for 2012-2013, and in all three languages.

In Arabic: Karim El Jurdi (1st), Aya Baajour (5th), Rabih El Tanir (9th). In English: Ali El Husseini (1st), Nader Kayali (2nd). In French: Hussein Barjaoui (1st).

The Minister of Culture Gaby Layoun issued a commendation to the school, and the students Jana Fakhr El Din, Ahmad Hazime, Maysam El Ayass, Dana Kraydli and Bassel El Yantani each received a personal commendation.

It was not one placing, or two, or three, but six: Lycée National took the largest number of prizes and placings among the schools entered in the 2011-2012 short-story competition, turning the prize-giving held at the UNESCO Palace into a celebration of its own.

In English: Rine El Masri, best-story prize for “What use is war”. Ages 9-12: Hadi Timani (1st), Thuraya Hamieh (2nd). Ages 16-18: Malak El Sabaa (1st).

In Arabic, ages 13-15: Karim El Jurdi (2nd). Ages 9-12: Nizar Abou Karroum (3rd).

At Planet Discovery’s “Chocolate competition”, covering poetry and model design, nine Lycée National students placed among 750 entrants.

English poetry: Julie Attieh (1st), Ribal Harb (2nd), Lea Chourouf (3rd). French: Ahmad Samhat (1st in poetry), Raghad Rammal (1st in written expression). Model design: Cynthia Aitani (2nd), Mahmoud Ajina (3rd) — two of the four winners across all schools.

At the “Lost in Space” / “Ô ciel” contest of 9 June 2017, Tia Mrei (Grade 5 English) took first place and Mohamad El Makhour (Grade 6 English) third, in English-language poetry.

Alaa Khaddaj took third place in the Engineering Scholarship Award competition run by the LAU faculty of engineering, with a 25% discount on the first semester of the 2016-2017 academic year.

Jamil Haidar received a certificate of merit in programming.

The University of Balamand granted our student Sara Nidal El Ghadban, in Grade 12 Life Sciences, a 50% scholarship for 2016-2017, on the strength of her school results and the high score she obtained in the SAT university entrance examination.

Lycée National took the first and second places for the primary cycle in a competition held nationally at the UNESCO Palace, under the patronage of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education.

Ali Khalil Mazihem took first place, a 30% discount, a shield and a medal, and represented Lebanon at the UCMAS world competition in Malaysia. Omar Jihad Dandan took second place, a 25% discount and a medal.

Marwan Moawwiya, of Grade 2, later took first place among six hundred entrants, then first place in the Elementary A category at the fourth national mental-arithmetic competition on 13 May 2017 at the UNESCO Palace, in the presence of the Minister of Education Marwan Hamadeh — and qualified to represent Lebanon at the UCMAS world competition in Bali.

Lycée National students entered the “GC LAU MUN National Project 2012” as delegates to the United Nations for the Republic of Fiji and for Chad.

At secondary level: Malak Sabaa, “Position Paper” award; Bassem Abou Diab, “Diplomacy” award; Ihsan Hamoura and Diana Kamar, certificates of participation.

At intermediate level: Joelle Anaissi, “Position Paper” award; Daniel Kirdab, Lara Hammoud and Fayez El Darwish Ahmad, certificates of participation.

Abdallah Bayan and Mahmoud Hachem, of Grade 7 in the French section, took first place in a competition run by the “Kidproof” foundation through its “Protect Ed” programme — a Canadian curriculum adopted in more than twenty-eight countries, aimed at pre-emptive and preventive education against health, physical and psychological risks.

The ceremony was held at the UNESCO Palace under the patronage and in the presence of the Canadian ambassador to Lebanon, Ms Michelle Cameron, alongside senior figures from the Ministry of Education and representatives of local and international organisations.

The Lebanese Yorkshire bird club held a bird-breeding competition at the Sports City, entered by Hassan Naji Hafneh of Lycée National Schools, who took first place.