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Sterling Stout recipient of 18th Ivan Dawson Memorial Scholarship

- Scholarship in memory of the late Hon Ivan Dawson CBE
11-year-old Sterling Stout is the 2019 recipient of the 2019 Ivan Dawson Memorial Scholarship (IDMS), valued $600.00. Photo: Provided
Valedictorian of the Ivan Dawson Primary School graduating class and 2019 recipient of the 2019 Ivan Dawson Memorial Scholarship (IDMS), 11-year Sterling Stout, centre, is pictured here with proud family members. Photo: Provided
Valedictorian of the Ivan Dawson Primary School graduating class and 2019 recipient of the 2019 Ivan Dawson Memorial Scholarship (IDMS), 11-year Sterling Stout, centre, is pictured here with proud family members. Photo: Provided
ZION HILL, Tortola, VI- Described as a balanced student who excels in academics and athletics, 11-year-old Sterling Stout, born 24 January, 2008, is the 2019 recipient of the 2019 Ivan Dawson Memorial Scholarship (IDMS), valued $600.00.

The scholarship is in memory of the late legislator Hon Ivan Dawson CBE who on his passing requested that in lieu of flowers a scholarship be given to the top academic student of the Ivan Dawson Primary School and funds be raised to give it annually. This is the 18th scholarship awarded.

Proper balance of ‘boy & book’

Sterling is the son of Mr Patrick A. Stout and Mrs Adel Clyne Stout of Carrot Bay, Tortola. He is regarded as an athletic, fun-loving, observant, quick-thinking and respectful pre-teen.

According to a press release from the IDMS Committee, “Sterling is a boy’s boy. His hobbies include any activity that makes him perceive or perspire: bike-riding, basketball, baseball, building (his own inventions) with his LEGO blocks, swimming, playing video games, playing with battery powered cars and boats – you name it – he does it! Yet he is an academic, as he loves to read and has a strong penchant for mathematics, trivia and word puzzles.”

It further said Sterling is the proper balance of ‘boy’ and ‘book’. He is a champion on and off the track – having developed a reputation for his impressive sprinting speeds in track and field (making the CUT Games VI team in 2016); meanwhile still able to competently represent his school in Spanish Bowl competitions, and the finals in this year’s 2019 Spelling Bee.

“It is easy to begin to see that whatever Sterling sets his hands to, he always endeavours to do his best, and being satisfied with this, never seeks to compare himself with others.”

Passionate about fishing

Off-campus, Sterling participates in the Ministry programme at his local congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Incidentally, when off from school or his congregation, Sterling proves himself a strong fishing hand in his father’s fishing business, having proficiently developed the natural knack of line fishing since aged four. Simply put, the other adult fishing hands, cannot out-fish Sterling.

“Sterling is so passionate about fishing, that he rises, undeterred by the 4:30 am wakeup call, ready to head out to catch the ‘sur tide’. Thus, this is the trajectory he sees himself taking as a life’s vocation – a full time fisherman! After all, it is a beautiful life when you love what you do. And you guessed it, one of his favourite foods is boiled fish, fungi and (a must!) dumpling!”

A happy, buoyant boy, Sterling is well known and loved in all social spheres he traverses – whether that be his peers, his teachers, or his elders. We trust that he will continue to live up to his name, with ongoing sterling performances through his secondary academic school years and beyond, the press release stated.

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