The Shad program has thrived at Memorial for more than two decades. Hundreds of high school students from across Canada gain life-changing experiences during the annual summer educational experience. The program’s success is no accident. Every year leaders, staff, faculty volunteers and others invest substantial time and energy to ensure every Shad student has the opportunity for […]
Sadie MacDonnell, Faculty of Science Sadie MacDonnell was introduced to McGill in July 2023, through SHAD Canada, a non-profit organization that fosters entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership among Canadian high school students. Over the course of the month-long program, MacDonnell fell in love with both the University and Montreal. “I knew this was where I wanted to spend the next […]
A program will give prospective university students a taste of what campus life would be like. The University of Guelph is partnering with Shad Canada for a new summer program that will cover STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) as well as business and entrepreneurial topics. Around 60 high school students are expected to take part […]
Three years ago, Folasewa (Sewa) Ofurune and her family left the vibrant city of Lagos, Nigeria, and settled in the quiet, close-knit town of Sussex, New Brunswick. The transition was a significant change – Lagos, home to over 22 million people, is a world away from the pastoral New Brunswick farming town – but for […]
CFUW Orillia is pleased to announce its first meeting of the 2024-2025 year, featuring three speakers who have all been awarded scholarships through the CFUW Orillia Scholarship Program. The event will take place on Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. at Creative Nomad Studios and will mark the beginning of another exciting year of learning, networking, and community engagement. This […]
… Schulich Leader Scholarships: Investing in the next generation of innovators Schulich Leaders are recipients of Canada’s largest Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) scholarship. The scholarships are valued at $120,000 each for students pursuing an engineering degree and $100,000 each for students pursuing degrees in science, technology and mathematics. Philanthropist Seymour Schulich established the […]
‘Education is what empowers the next generation of leaders. Student voice, therefore, is the voice of the future’ Tia Nootchtai of Lockerby Composite School and Alexandra Wilson-Zegil of Manitoulin Secondary School will serve as student trustees on the Rainbow District School Board for 2024-25. They will also so-chair the Student Senate, which includes representatives from […]
More than 60 Grade 10 and 11 students from across Canada are leaving Wilfrid Laurier University with new experiences in leadership, innovation and community engagement. The students participated in the Shad Laurier program, a month-long experiential learning initiative designed to build high-potential high school students’ skills and knowledge in science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics (STEAM), […]
Sewa Ofurune had been pushing through the process of putting in scholarship applications when she was called into the office at Sussex Regional High School in April. The Grade 12 student, whose family had moved to New Brunswick from Lagos, Nigeria, three years earlier, turned up to find her family and a UNB recruiter with […]
This year, in July 2024, Shad Manitoba inspired young minds, showed them the potential of pursuing an education at UM and presented them with opportunities all around Manitoba. Shad is a 1-month program for grade 10 and 11 students where they get hands-on experience, collaborate to design innovative solutions for crucial problems and explore post-secondary institutions. This […]
From aspiring student to sustainability leader, Lise Morton, Vice President of Site Selection at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), credits her inspiring career in part to Shad Canada. This prestigious national program — which the NWMO has proudly sponsored for many years — hosts high-achieving high school students each summer at 21 university campuses across […]
Month-long program culminated with pitches for innovative green energy products More than 100 of Canada’s brightest high school students converged for a transformative one-month retreat at Western during this year’s Shad summer program to build entrepreneurial knowledge and skills in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math). Shad, hosted on 21 university campuses from coast to coast, […]
