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Scholarships
YALIENS.......Welcome to the 2014 / 2015 School Year!
This site will be updated with new scholarship opportunities as the year progresses.
DOGWOOD DISTRICT AUTHORITY AWARDS (aka DISTRICT SCHOLARSHIPS)
What?
Dogwood District Authority Awards (aka District Scholarships)are an opportunity to showcase your talents in Elective Courses, Technical Trades and Training or Voluntary Community Service. A minimum 100 hour project and presentation is required. Graduating students who qualify in one of the scholarship areas may compete within the school district for $1000 offered by the Provincial Awards Program. If you win an award, you receive $500 cash and a $500 voucher from the Ministry of Education to be applied toward tuition at a post-secondary institution or accredited apprenticeship training program
Who?
You must be a …
• Full time student, minimum of 20 credits completed in Grade 12 by Aug. 31 of 2015.
• Canadian citizen or permanent resident as of Sept 30, 2014.
• You must be able to provide a Canadian Social Insurance Number (SIN) before June to be award eligible.
Where?
Students may use some class time to work on your project but only 40% of the project can count toward a letter grade in a course or program. The majority of the project must be done outside of class.
When?
Projects are presented for adjudication at Abbotsford Senior Secondary School on April 22, 2015.
Cost?
A small fee of $25 covers lunch for the participants on the 22nd and thank you gifts and food for the adjudicators.
Hand your applications in to Ms. Baldwin in the Counselling Centre ASAP. Final deadline is October 31 but get your applications in early so you can get started.
In Yale's New Theatre....Open to Yale students and their parents.
Brittany Palmer
We are very fortunate to have Brittany Palmer returning to our school November 6 th , 2014 at 5 p.m. to give her engaging and informative seminar describing her scholarship program "Unlock Your Future". Raised in North Vancouver and now a Burnaby resident, Brittany went through the scholarship process in 2005 during her grade 12 year and was fortunate enough to win more than $56,000, $36,550 of which applied directly to her post-secondary education. In June 2009, Brittany graduated debt-free from Simon Fraser University with her Bachelor of Arts in Communication.
Brittany created UYF to help other students learn about the various funding opportunities that are available to them, as well as the best strategies to use in applying for scholarships. To date she has helped over 2500 students with the scholarship process.
Her website is www.keytoscholarships.com
It is recommended that students use this as a resource for finding and applying for scholarships.
YALE's 2014-2015 Scholarship list is now available for review.
This is revised and sorted by monthly deadline dates, the list can be downloaded and saved to your desktop.
This list is not comprehensive but it does contain most of the popular scholarships available across the country. There are many more scholarships available online, so please don't forget to check the websites listed below. ALSO BE SURE TO SEE YOUR COUNSELLOR WITH QUESTIONS : )
Abbotsford Community Foundation Scholarships
-Applications available in February 2015 http://www.abbotsfordcf.org/StudentAwards.html
Are you interested in learning more about how to apply for scholarships including creating resumes, writing essays and searching for scholarships?........Come out to the Yale Secondary Scholarship Club….join our Face book group to keep connected. See Mr. Bartlett in the counseling center for more information.
Join the Facebook scholarship group, log into your Facebook account and click "join group".
Investigate other avenues
- parents- employer, union, financial institution
- affiliation - parent, child, other relatives
- sport groups, service clubs, Legion
- affiliation - parent, child, other relatives
- sport groups, service clubs, Legion
