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= Golden Youth Award = The Golden Youth Award (GYA) is organised by the Bhutan Youth Development Fund, a civil society organisation for the youth of Bhutan. The event was initiated in 2005 to commemorate the 50th birth anniversary of His Majesty The Fourth Druk Gyalpo Jigme Singye Wangchuck. The first GYA camp was organised by YDF in 2008. The GYA is a platform created to inspire and motivate the youth to excel holistically, becoming role models for their peers and community. The award identifies multi-talents among school youths from across the country

Award structure
The eligibility criteria of students for the award and the selection process has undergone some changes since its inception in 2008. The nomination begins from the school where the best and the brightest candidates stand to compete with other youths from the district. Only few get selected to represent their district for the annual camp. At the national level, the students gather for the GYA Camp where the candidates are assessed through direct competitions and indirect means of observations and performance to select the best candidate.

For the Golden Youth Award Camp 2020, the BYDF is looking for students with outstanding qualities who have made tremendous contribution in various areas in your school, community or society at large and Dzongkhag Class Ten Toppers of 2020 (Top 5 Dzongkhag toppers to contest for the GYA). The focus areas of assessment will be GNH journey, academic excellence, literary abilities, co-curricular performances, innovation of ideas, and edutainment. The camp has many activities to provide an opportunity for learning and sharing experiences among the youth. The camp participants also mentor at-risk youth in their schools in an attempt to solve youth-related problems.

Several students may be declared as Golden Youth Award Winner and only one among them is declared the Golden Youth Title Holder.

In 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the GYA Camp could not be organized in the capital during summer. To adapt to the new normal, YDF has developed an online system to facilitate the GYA selection for the class ten students of year 2020.

Golden Youth Title Holder
The Golden Youth Title Holder in 2017 was Wangdrak Dorji, Dr Tobgyal School, Thimphu.

The Golden Youth Title Holder for the year 2019 was Palden Tshering Yangchen, a class 10 student of Drukgyel Central School, Paro.

The Golden Youth Award winner receives the most prestigious scholarships under the YDF. So far eight GYA winners have availed scholarships to study at the United World Colleges across the Netherlands, Singapore and Canada.