The Presidential Award of Excellence was awarded yesterday by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to each of the four students who topped the GCE Advanced Level Examination 2006 in Arts, Mathematics, Biology and Commerce streams. Here Madhavi Fernando (Arts/Girls High School, Kandy), Manudha Herath (Mathematics/Royal College, Colombo), Rasanga Abhishek (Commerce/Nalanda College, Colombo) and Harsha Dissanayake (Biology/Nalanda College, Colombo) in conversation with the President, who instructed officials to grant Rs.25,000 each from the President’s Fund to the four students for their educational endeavours. The event was organised by ITN and Lakhanda networks. Picture by Saliya Rupasinghe See tomorrow’s Daily News Teen page for interviews with the four A/L stars.