JAEVION Nelson, 20, is this year’s recipient of the Choices Outstanding Young Achiever award, given to youngsters who have achieved not only academic success but who have helped to boost Jamaica’s image internationally.

Nelson, a former Clarendon College student, is currently studying management at the University of the West Indies.

He is also a member of a team of web designers and developers, content writers and researchers on an award-winning project called Web MGD.

The Choice award is issued yearly by Choice Magazine, published by Angela deFreitas.

Declaring himself “truly honoured to receive the award,” Nelson said that he was happy to be one of the young people helping to shape Jamaica in the world and called on his peers to be “active, goal-driven and committed to the cause of building brand Jamaica.”

Nelson represented Jamaica at the Childnet International Academy in London in 2004 and was co-host in 2005 when the Academy met in Montego Bay, said a release on his selection for the award.

He is also a past recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence for ‘international achievement’.

His interests outside of technology include debating, acting and badminton.

The Choices award precedes the annual Choices Career and Education Expo which provides career counselling and information to students, principals, teachers and guidance counsellors.

This year’s expo, titled ‘The CSM & The Caribbean Job Hunter’, is scheduled for June 6 at the Hilton Kingston Hotel and June 8 at the Golf View Hotel in Mandeville.