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… 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, […]

Sixty-four students, aged 16 to 17, from across Canada spent the month of July at UPEI, participating in a wide variety of STEAM and entrepreneurship sessions through the 2024 Shad program.  They attended lectures and labs, primarily provided by UPEI faculty and lab instructors, and participated in other activities such as deep sea fishing and camping. They […]

High school students from across the country flocked to the MUN campus in St. John’s Thursday to show off their green energy creations. Sixty-four students set up at the R. Gushue Hall for the event, which is the culmination of the month-long Shad program. Students were tasked with creating a 20-page business plan, video pitch, presentation […]

Teams of high school students from around Canada and the world competed last week for the best pitch for a new permanent location for the Sackville Farmers’ Market. Six teams of SHAD program students shared their ideas with a panel of local judges last Thursday evening in Tantramar council chambers. SHAD is a month-long enrichment […]

On today’s show, we take a look at some of the pitches for permanent locations for the Sackville Farmers Market, thought up by teams of high school students who are at Mount Allison this month for the SHAD program, an enrichment and entrepreneurship program for youth. Six teams proposed a variety of locations for a […]

Over 60 high school students from across the country converged at the MUN campus in St. John’s last month looking at green energy solutions. The students, from grades 10 and 11, were in the province as part of an annual Shad Canada program. They participated in a variety of workshops, lectures and field trips, with […]