The Nautilus Project held the World Ocean Day Award ceremony at the Sunborn with over 350 attendees.

A statement from the Nautilus Project follows below:

We received over four hundred entries across all the categories and the judging panel were absolutely blown away by the amazing high standard of work produced beaming with creativity. So much so, that the judging process took over 5 hours!  A testament not only to the immense volume of entries but also the high calibre of the work produced.

This is the highlight of the Nautilus calendar and the culmination of a full academic year of Marine Science outreach visiting our local schools. This year, Nautilus have already hosted over 45 school workshops with still a few booked in until the end of term.

Our thanks to the judging panel: Bianca Daniell Finsbury Trust Director, Nicholas Balban from The Gibraltar Sub-Aqua Association, the Nautilus Youth Leader Alexander Sanchez-Soiza, Nautilus youth monitor Eva Guillem, Ms Gianna Balban, Melanie and Lewis Stagnetto. We also appreciate all the sponsors help and support. This year, His Excellency The Governor, Mr Yury Hushchyn our venue sponsor, Ms Daniell and Minister John Cortes, presented the awards.

The Aurora Ballroom at the Sunborn sponsored by Pretty Sailing, had a full audience of over 350 people in attendance.
Our congratulations to the winners and a massive thank you to all the participants. This year has superseded once again.

After much deliberation, the successful entries were as follows:

Lower Primary Individual Winners:
 1st Place Jaxon Downs SPLP
2nd Place: Beth Percival GMLP
3rd Place Zayn Ressa NDLP
H/C Fern Davidson SJLP
H/C  Sienna Hodges SBLP 

 Lower Primary Small Group Winners
1st Place: Paula Alumbrera/Yousef Hallal/Mikaela Lau/Thomas Martinez/Bella Del Agua/Ethan Cornelio SBLP
2nd Place: Liam McCarthy-Tavares and Sunanda Punjabi SBLP
3rd Place: Ava Akuma and Riley Garcia SJLP

Lower Primary Classroom Winners
Winners: St Mary’s LSF Nautilus Sustainable Birthday Cake
Runners Up: Dynamic Diamonds Year 2 SJLP Where Youth Lead, Oceans Win

 Lower Primary Year Group Winners
 1st Place: Governors Meadow Year 1
2nd Place: St Paul’s Year 2
3rd Place: St Joseph’s Year 2 

Upper Primary Individual Winners
1st Place: Isabella Cuesta St Annes
2nd Place: Batsheva Wahnich Hebrew School Year 4
3rd Place: Joshua Beniso Hebrew School Year 4

 Upper Primary Year Group Winners
 1st: Loreto Convent Year 5 
Runner’s Up: Hebrew School Year 4

 Secondary School Individual Winners:
 1st: Leah Duarte Bayside  Whale Shark Spoon
2nd:  Adrianne Durante Westside 
3rd: Lucia Peacock Bayside 

St Martins School  1st : Kyle Wood

Secondary School Year Group Winners
1st: Gibraltar College Level 1

 Overall School Winners
 1st Place: St Anne’s Upper Primary School
2nd Place: Notre Dame Lower Primary School
3rd Place: St Paul’s Lower Primary School
H/C: St Joseph’s Lower Primary School

Nautilus Youth Volunteer Of The Year
 Cameron Byrne
 
Sustainable Christmas Decoration Winners 2025
 
Lower Primary School
 
• 1st Fraser Young from St Joseph’s Lower Primary with the Gingerbread Stick House
• 2nd Jonah Palao from St Joseph’s Lower Primary with the Pinecone Fish
• 3rd Sonny Sheppard Capurro Symons from St Joseph’s Lower Primary with the Santa’s Egg Carton Sleigh
 
Classroom Award
 
• 1st Purple Class St Mary’s Lower Primary with the Toilet Roll Nutcracker
 
Upper Primary School
 
• 1st Alma Belle Baharal from St Bernard’s Upper Primary with Underwater Nemo
• 2nd Lauren Slater from Bishop Fitzgerald Upper Primary with the Seashell Bauble
• 3rd Callum Hayward from St Anne’s Upper Primary with the Toilet Roll Wreath
• H/C Noah Trinidad from St Anne’s Upper Primary with the Sea glass Snowman
 
School Award
 
• 1st Bishop Fitzgerald School with the Bishop Express
 
Secondary School
 
• 1st Adrianne Durante from Westside School with the Crab Coaster
 
University Category
 
• 1st Dante Jimenez with the Nudibranch Bauble
 
Nautilus School MedOceanHeroes July 2025 to June 2026
 
St Paul’s LP
Oren Canepa
Seth Sebtaoui
St Joseph’s LP
Zak Bokhari
St Joseph’s UP
Alma Bokhari
Anna Borrell
HPS
Shlomo Brenig
Bishop Fitzgerald
Valentino Ferro-Aleman
Millie Montiel
Notre Dame
William Oliveira
Jaxson Navas
St Annes UP
James King
Noah Trinidad
Madison Navas
Laura Wyatt
 
Our congratulations to all the above winners!