{"id":476491,"date":"2025-07-27T15:58:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/dominican-embassy-in-spain-recognizes-outstanding-students-with-the-2025-school-merit-award\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T15:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:58:48","slug":"dominican-embassy-in-spain-recognizes-outstanding-students-with-the-2025-school-merit-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/dominican-embassy-in-spain-recognizes-outstanding-students-with-the-2025-school-merit-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Embassy in Spain recognizes outstanding students with the 2025 School Merit Award"},"content":{"rendered":"Madrid<\/strong>.\u2014 The Embassy of the Dominican Republic to the Kingdom of Spain held the ceremony for the presentation of the XI School Merit Award, a distinction that recognizes academic excellence, the spirit of overcoming and the civic values of students of Dominican nationality or origin residing in Spain.\n\nThe event, led by Ambassador Tony Raful Tejada, took place at the official residence of the diplomatic mission and brought together authorities, educational representatives, family members, and teachers of the honored young people.\n\n“**Today we celebrate not only the grades of the selected students, but also the civic, human, and solidarity values that they demonstrate every day as exemplary Dominican youth abroad,**” expressed Ambassador Raful during his speech.\n\nAs part of the recognition, the award-winning students will enjoy a cultural trip to the Dominican Republic, where they will be received by President Luis Abinader, First Lady Raquel Arbaje, and the Governor of the Central Bank, H\u00e9ctor Valdez Albizu.\n\n\n

You can also read: DR and Spain promote project to reduce digital divide<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nAmong those attending the ceremony were the ambassador to UN-Tourism, Anabel Bueno Santana, the consul general Jos\u00e9 Marte Piantini, representatives of the Institute of Dominicans and Dominicans Abroad (INDEX<\/a>), members of the jury, as well as figures from the academic field.\n\nDuring the event, the 2024 first-place winner, Ashlie Ventura Hor\u00e1n, shared a moving testimony about the transformative impact of the award on her life. Meanwhile, Paola Juliana Ram\u00edrez Volquez, the first awardee of the 2025 edition, gave a speech in which she paid tribute to the sacrifices of her immigrant parents and highlighted the importance of support networks for young Dominicans abroad.\n\nAlso recognized were students Martina Tussent Granero, Gael Then Hallal, Alexander Yersy P\u00e9rez P\u00e9rez, Yarisa Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez, Manuel Figuereo Garc\u00eda, Wander Alc\u00e1ntara Ventura, Rafael de Jes\u00fas Arroyo Angeles, Nicole Elidania Cata\u00f1o Bat\u00eda and Roberto Arco Acosta, along with Daniel Gallego Encarnaci\u00f3n and Adrid Joel Santana Medina, who received special mentions for their outstanding academic performance.\n\nThe School Merit Award was established in 2008 with the aim of promoting the educational and social integration of the Dominican community in Spain, while strengthening the ties of young people with their country of origin.\n\n\n

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Madrid.\u2014 The Embassy of the Dominican Republic to the Kingdom of Spain held the ceremony for the presentation of the XI School Merit Award, a distinction that recognizes academic excellence, the spirit of overcoming and the civic values of students of Dominican nationality or origin residing in Spain. The event, led by Ambassador Tony Raful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":476492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[40563,40938],"class_list":["post-476491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-spain","tag-students"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1ZXl","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/ESPANA.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/ESPANA.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}