Scholarships
Free money for school? Yes please.
Notes:
- scholarship info changes often,so check the site for more accurate info.
- create a spreadsheet, watch the deadlines
- many Scholarships ask for essays - if you are tempted to use ChatGPT, generate a few times, pick out the best parts, and change it up, take out flourishy words that you would normally would not use, make it unique “-ish”, and specific to you before submitting
Scholarship Databases
- CBE Scholarships
- link to Education Matters
- Scholarships Canada
- Scholar Tree
- yconic
- Calgary Foundation Awards
High Profile Scholarships
- Schulich Leader
- $120,000
- Academic excellence, AND Leadership, charisma and creativity.
- Each High School selects one student to be their Schulich Leader Nominee
- Loran Scholar
- $100,000
- Leadership, service, and character
- TD
- $70,000
- demonstrated consistent and outstanding dedication to helping improve the world by solving a social or community problem
- Scotia
- $30,000
- contest entry
- BMO
- $10,000
- contest entry
- TC Energy
- $5,000
- demonstrate a strong commitment to their community through volunteerism, leadership or other community involvement
- Telus
- $5,000
- Social Impact
- Cenovus
- $20,000
- commitment to their community through leadership
- Amazon
- $30,000
- Rogers
- $100,000, $26,800, $1,000
- Alberta Credit Unions
- $5,000
- Volunteering
- CIBC
- $35,000
- contest, must be a CIBC member
- Terry Fox
- $28,000
- Involved in voluntary humanitarian activities
- Sun Life
- $2,000
- demonstrate leadership in their communities
- Sobeys
- $2,000
- contest entry
- Google
- $5,000
- Exemplify leadership and demonstrate passion for improving representation of underrepresented groups in computer science and technology
- Ingenium
- $25,000
- STEAM Horizon Awards recipients will have inspiring achievements in the fields of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math.
- Barron Prize
- $10,000
- Create and lead a project
- Energy Creates
- 5 x $100,000
- original artistic work on the theme of the Canadian energy sector
- note: read terms, they have the non-exclusive right to reproduce and publish an excerpt from the work submitted
A Few Other Scholarship examples
- strikegroup
- $2,000
- Western Canada: volunteering, community, and career goals
- educationmatters - benjamin-ben-albert-award
- $3,000
- sports
- educationmatters - calgarians-improving-society
- $10,000
- for Calgary post secondary (ex: UofC)
- essay on how their chosen career will help improve Canadian society
- 2 ref letters for community involvement and future plans
- educationmatters - calgary-flames-foundation-community-involvement
- $2,000
- essay on how they have demonstrated leadership in their volunteerism
- educationmatters - city-of-calgary-degree-granting
- $1,700 (none others)
- for Calgary post secondary diploma (ex: SAIT)
- educationmatters - future-leaders
- $1,000
- volunteerism, positive citizenship and leadership
- 1 ref letter
- educationmatters - richard-r-and-linda-a-singleton-education-fund
- $2,000
- positive citizenship qualities as revealed by the participation in non-academic activities for the school and/or community
- part time or summer job
- essay and 2 ref letters
- educationmatters - pamela-jane-hardy-memorial
- $2,500
- strong aptitude in mathematics and involvement in sport, financial need
- essay and 1 ref letter
- educationmatters - investing-in-the-future
- $100,000 (10)
- financial need
- essay on the impact on their lives and the impact they hope to have on the world should they receive this opportunity