Up to $35,000 in scholarship money is up for grabs for geoscience and engineering students from the NWT and Nunavut this year.
The Northwest Territories and Nunavut Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists’ (NAPEG) education foundation is awarding up to 12 scholarships to full-time undergraduate and graduate students.
Graduate students can apply on $7,500 scholarships – up to two will be awarded – while undergraduate students are eligible for up to ten $2,000 scholarships, which include the Bob Spence Memorial Scholarship and Mel Brown Memorial Scholarship.
The deadline to apply for the money is August 15.
Applicants with strong academics, leadership skills, and community involvement will be given preference.
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There are also student research awards available, which provide $1000 each to the best oral and poster presentations at the NWT & Nunavut Chamber of Mines’ annual Geoscience Forum, and $3,000 for a student to attend and present research at each of the territories’ geoscience forums.
The deadline to apply for the research awards is September 30 for the NWT and Yukon conferences and November 22 for the Nunavut Mining Symposium.
Since NAPEG’s education foundation was established in 2006, it has awarded almost $300,000 in funding to 130 northern students.
Jade Lockie, a PhD candidate in earth and environmental sciences at the University of BC Okanagan, was awarded a graduate scholarship in 2024.
Undergraduate scholarship recipients named by the foundation last year were Ethan Aumond, Elaine Cronk, Joseph Curran, Ian Gau, Isabella Karl, Gordon Kwong, Kabbamoy Paul, Roald Peters, Cassie Rogers and Stella Wong.
