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HABITUDES CHARACTER PROGRAM An engaging, challenging and transformative learning opportunity IJGA exists to empower young adolescents as engaged citizens of an ever-changing, complex global society. As such, more than golf, more than school, IJGA must ensure the positive character development of all students. IJGA achieves this aim through the implementation of its HABITUDES Character Program. The HABITUDES Character Program extends the course of the school year and provides students with many opportunities for individual and team develop- ment. While the activities and assignments change throughout the course of the year, every HABITUDES activity is designed to be an engaging, challenging and transformative learning opportunity by delving into topics such as integrity, honesty, ethics, grati- tude, conflict resolution and communication skills. Students giving their all to this program and its many challenges, will be better poised to navigate their student-athlete journeys with greater confidence, conviction and commitment. Altogether, as a result of their IJGA HABITUDES experience, IJGA students will depart the academy well equipped to navigate life’s challenges, trials and tribulations. POWER OF PEERS One of IJGA’s most valuable assets is the peer group of students who we believe are second to none in any other golf academy or boarding school. The students share the common experience of sacrifice in leaving home, courage in typically coming to a foreign country to study in a different language and great ambition to become a professional golfer or minimally to have a great college golf experience. AD M I SSI O NS GUI D E 2019 45