Twen­ty six young peo­ple brought the cur­tain down on this year’s Pres­i­dent’s Pan Camp with a per­for­mance at Pres­i­dent’s House on Sat­ur­day, cap­ping six days of mu­sic, men­tor­ship and per­son­al de­vel­op­ment aimed at build­ing con­fi­dence, lead­er­ship and re­silience.

Now in its third con­sec­u­tive year, the camp brought to­geth­er par­tic­i­pants from the Cot­ton Tree Foun­da­tion, the Scout As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Girl Guides As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cadet Force and Po­lice Youth Clubs. While learn­ing to play the steel­pan was cen­tral to the pro­gramme, or­gan­is­ers said the ini­tia­tive al­so fo­cused on team­work, dis­ci­pline and per­son­al growth through men­tor­ship from ac­com­plished pan­nists, artistes and oth­er pro­fes­sion­als.

The clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny was at­tend­ed by par­ents, guardians, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the par­tic­i­pat­ing or­gan­i­sa­tions and in­vit­ed guests. Two campers re­flect­ed on their ex­pe­ri­ences through po­et­ry and per­son­al tes­ti­mo­ny be­fore the 26 young mu­si­cians per­formed Farmer Nap­py’s How Ah Livin’, the song they had spent the week mas­ter­ing, earn­ing warm ap­plause from the au­di­ence.