A local student is getting $2500 to pursue her dream of becoming a teacher.
After a search across the province, Caitlyn Thompson was picked to receive a Community First Scholarship awarded by My Broadcasting Corporation – the owner of Niagara’s New Country 89.1.
Caitlyn, who is enrolled in the Concurrent Education program at Queen’s University and is working at receiving an Honours Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and a Bachelor of Education degree, shared what ‘community means to her’.
Additionally, three others are getting $500 as part of the program – including another from Niagara.
Ella Warner from Welland is going to Loyalist College in Belleville for Carpentry and Renovation Technician. She’s someone that’s always involved in the community in Niagara, and feels there’s great value in giving back.
Other winners of $500 include Ella Tettemer from Renfrew and Orria Neilsen of Perth.
Tettemer will be attending Queen’s University in the fall and is enrolled in the Biochemistry and Life Sciences program. Her goal is to pursue a career as a Biochemist or a Biomedical Scientist where she would be conducting research to help develop new drug therapies and vaccines.
Neilsen is starting her dream program of honors archaeology at Trent University. She has been fascinated with history and archaeology for years and hopes to travel the world for work, meeting new people and studying different cultures. To achieve this, she will obtain her master’s degree. Her goals as an archaeologist will to be a lead excavator on dig sites, to work hand in hand with local indigenous communities.
(Written by: Jordan Mercier)
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