OLYMPIC curler Eve Muirhead helped inspire these young people to aim for the top.

The champion announced the winners and presented 100 gold medals to Scotland’s most aspiring pupils from primary and secondary schools.

Almost one-year on from the Glasgow Games, Scotland’s biggest education legacy project came to an end with a showcase award ceremony in the Bute Halls at Glasgow University.

The 25-year-old bronze medallist at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi joined the celebrations for the Global Citizens in the Making programme which enabled 100,000 school pupils from around the Commonwealth to use the inspiration of the games and consider their own aspirations and ambitions as global citizens.

The programme originated in Scotland and many schools connected classrooms with other Commonwealth nations.

Catherine Stilher MEP and Rector of St Andrews University was among the judges.

She said: “What I have experienced today is inspiring and enlightening.

"To learn from young people about their experiences and how they see the world helps me understand better the challenges that young people face today.

"I think this exercise should be conducted with politicians.

"Perhaps we would make better decisions.”

As skip of the Scotland team, Eve won the 2011 European Championships in Moscow and the 2013 World Championships in Riga.

She is also a four-time World Junior Champion (2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011).

She represented Great Britain at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where she became the youngest ever skip, male or female, to win an Olympic medal.