Youth Appreciation Awards

They are designed to celebrate and acknowledge the achievements and dedication of youth and youth groups who have made a significant contribution to their local or global community and who show initiative, enthusiasm, commitment and a positive attitude.

The Youth Appreciation Awards recognize young people in the categories of Youth Recognition, Youth Community Enhancement and Outstanding Youth Team.

Please check out the tabs below for more information on the award categories, nomination criteria and the selection process.

The 2023 Youth Appreciation Awards nomination period is now open. Please click here for a copy of this year’s nomination form. All completed application forms must be received by Thursday, April 6, 2023.

Awards in other municipalities

Similar youth awards are also available from other North Shore communities:

City of North Vancouver—visit the Youth Awards & Scholarship page

District of North Vancouver—visit the Annual Youth Awards page

Youth Recognition Award

The Youth Recognition Award recognizes individual youth who have made noteworthy achievements or who have achieved considerable progress in a particular endeavour, thus exhibiting the ability and commitment for personal change and growth.

Youth Community Enhancement Award

The Youth Community Enhancement Award recognizes individual youth who have made a voluntary contribution to their community that resulted in a positive change or made a lasting impact, such as developing a project, serving on a committee, or participating in other volunteer work with an organization and/or group. All nominees must demonstrate a minimum contribution of 50 hours of school or community service work between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023.

Oustanding Youth Team Award

The Outstanding Youth Team Award recognizes a group of youth who have completed a minimum of 35 hours per youth of service, resulting in enhanced programs and/or services for their school or their local or global community between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023. If any individual youth in a group has not completed 35 hours of service, the individual does not qualify for the award. It is the Nominator’s responsibility to confirm that each individual youth in a group has completed 35 hours of service.

Note: If you are nominating a group for the Outstanding Youth Team Award, you will be asked to provide the name and contact information of the main contact person for this group. If the group is selected for an award, the main contact person is the one who will be responsible for providing the award details to the selected group of youth.
1. Nominations must be received by the application deadline. There will be no extension on the nomination deadline.
2. The nominator must not be related to an individual nominee, but may be related to one or more members of a group nominee.
3. The nominee does not have to live in the District of West Vancouver as long as the activities which are being acknowledged occurred in the District of West Vancouver.
4. If the nominee is a District of West Vancouver resident, the activities which are being acknowledged can occur in another community.
5. The eligible age for nominees is 13-18 years.
6. Youth may be nominated for more than one award.
1. Once all the nomination forms are received by the deadline, they will be reviewed by District of West Vancouver staff.
2. More than one award in each category may be awarded to the same youth in any one year.
3. The selected nominees will be contacted by phone and/or email, detailing their options for receiving or picking up their Youth Appreciation Award.
4. Information about the awards presented, including the names of the award recipients, will be published on the District of West Vancouver’s website from the current and past year. Award recipients will be provided with a Personal Information Disclosure Consent form for their consideration.
Youth Recognition
- Aisha Ketcheson
- Amelie Khoja
- Ava Barker
- Blake Babich
- Brent Lu
- Brooke Olsen
- Caitlynn Groff
- Celine (Minseo) Choi
- Chris Fernandez
- Connor Wilson
- Dorsa Ahmadi
- Eleena Shahbazi
- Ellie Li
- Eric Xie
- Kevin Edmonds
- Lela Smeton
- Leona Meng
- Melika Tehrani
- Misha Curnoe
- Miya Earland
- Nairi Garakanian
- Rosa Sandoval Carlsten
- Sivan Farzan-Cote
- Sofia Zangeneh
- Sophia Michel
- Ulwiana Melhotra-Mehta
Youth Community Enhancement
- Alishia Beigi
- Anthony Gu
- Chunchao (Gary) Li
- Cyrus Lau
- Eva Jarvis
- Fiona Li
- Frank Lu
- Ihsan Salari
- Isabella (Izzy) Kershaw
- Jaiden Ahuja
- Jaydan Gujral
- Jessica Young
- Jincheng (Jason) He
- Lewen Ivy Huang
- Nahal Keshtkaran
- Quincy Osarobo
- Raihan Hassam
- Shayan Famouri
- Ulwiana Melhotra-Mehta
Outstanding Youth Team
- Saina Zhiani
- Tanya Rahmatian
- Ace Menzies
- Hung Irish
- Madelyn Honchuruk
- Quincy Osarobo
- Carmen Santa Ana
- Emma McDonald
- Eva Grdina
- Kevin Edmonds
- Lindsay Bowlby
- Ariana Alaghehmand
- August Lam
- Bjorn Elvin-Jensen
- Matthew Palmer
- Mia Pearson
- Oliver Nordquist
- Vera McCutcheon
- Alex Zhu
- Andrew Miao
- Andy Wang
- Brent Lu
- Cayla Gao
- Chris Jiao
- Eliza Qiu
- Fiona Li
- Hidi Gu
- Jason Niu
- Leon Hong
- Rachel Liu
- William Lu
- Alessandra Moro
- Alexandra Ye
- Angelo Slivca
- Ariana Mellios
- Ariel Morton
- August Lam
- Bronwen Sutcliffe
- Hayden Pringle
- Jonathan Ruus
- Joshua Bachrich
- Lucas Pacheco
- Lucia Forsyth
- Lucine Tachdjian
- Melody Mokhtari
- Queeny Gong
- Skylar Tseng
- Sydney Conbere
- Tara Parissay
- Yasmine Daher
- Artin Manafi-Khosroshahi
- Emma Linsley
- Ihsan Salari
- Jaden Choi
- Jason Bao
- Joyce Qi
- Kate Anderson
- Kiana Bagherpour
- Kiernan Lo
- Lauren Bowlby
- Lucy Xu
- Mia Ruse
- Raihan Hassam
- Ricky Kim
- Sara Sunderji
- Teresa Jin
- Artin Manafi-Khosroshahi
- Ashely Wong
- Ava Lillie-Lee
- Emma Linsley
- Jason Bao
- Joyce Qi
- Kiernan Lo
- Louis Lo
- Teresa Jin
- Vanda Vaziri Kashani
- Adeena Saleem
- Jolie Zhou
- Katherine Brand
- Leya Chekoldin
- Lisa Li
- Lola Cabral
- Ricky Kim
- Rodin Shokravi
- Sara Sunderji
- Adele Agenes
- Adelina Pocock
- Katelyn Jewell
- Kathy Siqi Wang
- Keira Szeto
- Louis Lin
- Phi Zhang
- Yuumi Yamauchi
- Alex An
- Coco Mantel
- Ella van der Werff
- Iris Liao
- Isabella Szeto
- Keira Paterson
- Lilly Lutz
- Reza Jafari-Amjad
- Rosa Sandoval Carlsten
- Cheng Peng
- Isabella Zhou
- Lu Peng
- Neal Traiatthasasidthi
- Bjorn Elvin-Jensen
- Christian Herholdt
- Melody Mokhtari
- Oliver Nordquist
- Sofia Zangeneh
- Alex Del Castillo
- Amelie Khoja
- Anais Doyle
- Anastasia Piciriga
- Anikait Johar
- Anoushka Johar
- August Lam
- Ava Richardson
- Cole Krahn
- Dana Del Castillo
- Ellie Li
- Freya White
- Jesse Theodore MacPherson
- Jo
- Joanna Zhang
- Kade Ciofani
- Katie Campbell
- Peb Kamdar
- Ronni Bigdeli
- Sean Tornquist
- Sera Bingham
- Trey Bentley
- Aidan Guo
- Alessandra Ow
- Alina Jarvis
- Bryan Xu
- Charlie Yeh
- Chloe Im
- Eric Su
- Erin An
- Ethan Peng
- Justin An
- Justin Ku
- Kim Ku
- Kseniya Belevich
- Maya Ramji
- Michelle Zhou
- Nathaniel Ow
- Parmida Moradian Arjmand
- Parto Balazadeh Minouei
- Ryan Shirvani
- Sebastian Hyland
- Selim Kutlu
- Terry Im
- Titus Kim
- Vesper Zhang
- Alexa Hartvikson
- Christina Zhang
- Ella Thompson
- Ella van der Werff
- Emma Chunn
- Frank Lu
- Isabella Pejman
- Priyanka Chopra
- Zoe Da Rosa
Youth Recognition
- Anisa Mansour
- Arta Zakhireh
- Ashley Pistilli
- Athena Bennett
- Caitlynn Groff
- Catherine Xiong
- Connor Khoja
- Donya Sheikhy
- Eleena Shahbazi
- Emily Jiang
- Hadis Kamrani
- Isaac Bailey
- Jake Cohen
- Jaydan Gujral
- Katie Campbell
- Lennox Donaher
- Maegan Shier
- Marija Cvetkovic
- Natasha Hossini
- Sam Howland
- Sivan Farzan-Cote
- Sofia Zangeneh
Youth Community Enhancement
- Armeen Rahmatian
- Cameron Moore
- Chloe Seol
- Evan Ranger
- Fiona Li
- Hudson Harris
- Kevin Cho
- Marshall Moussavi
- Nairi Garakanian
- Saba Kaemeini
- Tanya Rahmatian
- Titus Kim
- Ulwiana Mehta-Malhotra
Outstanding Youth Team

Funq Band
- Ricky (Guanhong) Chen
- Larina (Xiang) Ling
- Monique Kelly
- Graydon Cronk
- Kyle Groundwater
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ) Action Council
- Ellyana Baumet
- Alyssa Ukani
- Amrita Dhillon
- Ava Ashnai
- Bronson Lo
- Ellie Griffiths-Barnhart
- Jaiden Ahuja
- Jada Chang
- Sara Sunderji
- Ulwiana Mehta-Malhotra
- Kennedy Kopke
Charity Fashion Show Committee
- Linda Che
- Angel Gu
- Angel He
- Selina Zhu
- Elizabeth Kubyshyn
- Karina Edmonds
Paper From Paper
- Kate Birch
- Teagan Sacre
- Shaiya Sayani
Missing Piece Film Team
- Mona Xie
- Will Chaplick
- Paula Ransanz
- Madelaine Brewer Yazdi
- Peter Zhu
- Ryan Cheah
- Lucas Nasu Nielsen
- Guytano Ayrton
- Ziyan Hemani
Mulgrave Emergency Response Team
- Emma Linsley
- Joyce Qi
- Jason Bao
- Teresa Jin
- Kiernan Lo
- Lauren Bowlby
- Artin Manafi-Khosroshahi
- Mia Ruse
Student Tutoring/Mentoring System
- Kiki Kuang
- Angelina Yang
- Artie Zhang
- Helen Lu
- Ruiqi Wang
Environmental Sustainability Video Team
- Finn Grathwol
- Tudor Rosu
- Pranav Ramdhani
Student Directors – Mulgrave Board of Directors
- Joyce Qi
- Artin Manafi-Khosroshah
Just 4 You
- Leona (Shang Yu) Li
- Julie Le
- Caitlyn Tong
- Vivian Ye
Youth Philanthropy Council
- Jamil Lalani
- Sierra Lee
- Frank Lu
- Christina Zhang
- Priyanka Chopra
- Zoe Da Roza
Feed The Need Market Committee
- Vera McCutcheon
- Matthew Palmer
- Dana Nitsch
- Donya Manavi
- Ellie Li
- Bjorn Elvin-Jensen
- Oliver Nordquist
Student Work & Advisory Team (SWAT)
- Eliana Liu
- Siena Eng
- Chloe Kim
- Oliver Nordquist
- Keon Nabavi
- Zahra Savoji
- Jayden Cheung
- Christian Herholdt
- Kayla McLean
- Bjorn Elvin-Jensen
- Melody Mokhtari Amirmajdi
- Dana Nitsch
- Grace Kwon
- Niknaz Daghoughi Esfahan
- Ashley Pezeshk
- Juliana Park
- Hannah Feng
- Margaret Deng
- Romina Naderi
- Donya Manavi
- Eva Murcia
- Yasmin Jalilpour
Youth Advisory Committee (YAC)
- Parto Balazadeh Minouei
- Nazgol Zakerameli
- Sebastian Hyland
- Justin An
- Grace Park
- Marin Elvin-Jensen
- Alessandra Ow
- Alina Jarvis
- Ryan Shirvani
- Arshan Ghanbari
- Kyian Ghanbari
- Alhena Jaffer
- Joanna Kim
- Artina Payombarnia
- Anna Tikhonova
- Nathaniel Ow
- Selim Kutlu
- Zahra Savoji
- Christina Zhang
- Erin An
- Chloe Im
- Eva Murcia
- Ryan Ng
- Darcy Foote
- Jerome Lippman
- Daisy Li
- Asal Rahimi
- Maya Ramji
- Parmida Moradian Arjmand
- Andrea Palafox Lerma
- Henry Luo
- Juliana Park
- Michelle Zhou
Squamish Nation Youth Ambassadors
- Makaidea Gonzales
- Isabelle Leroy
- Ben Lewis
- Tavian Lewis
- Reece Lewis
Ch'ich'iyuy Canoe Family
- Hung Irish
- Madelyn Honchuruk
- Quincy Osarobo
Whatever Youth Committee (WYC)
- Connor Khoja
- Amelie Khoja
- Noah Sasaki
- Freya White
- Peb Kamdar
- Anoushka Johar
- Anikait Johar
- Sean Tornquist
- Evan Ranger
- Marija Cvetkovic
- Petra Cvetkovic
- Oscar Wu
- Jesse Theodore MacPherson
- Kade Ciofani
- Keo Roizman
- Adam Lalani
- Hannah Kim
- Sophie Bennison
- Codii Bennison
- Cole Krahn
- Anais Doyle
- Katie Campbell