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Highland student makes the grade for 2006 Millennium Scholarship
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Highland Secondary School student Erin Crickmore is among the winners of the 2006 Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation Entrance Awards.
The awards recognize university- and college-bound students for their leadership skills, community involvement, and academic achievement, as well their ingenuity and talent for implementing new ideas.
Erin is involved in many activities at Highland and in Girl Guides of Canada. In Guides, Erin has been working for the last five years with four to eight-year-olds - girls she describes as "my community's future leaders" -- and tries to be a good role model for them.
Shelter for the homeless
For example, she organized a drive with her Brownie group to collect toiletries for clients of Wesley Urban Ministries, a Hamilton shelter for the homeless. This event was so successful in 2004 that she organized a similar drive last Christmas and hopes it will become an annual event.
As president of HAVEN, the school social justice club, Erin helped to organize a campaign to remember the victims of the Montreal Massacre, 14 women engineering students killed by a deranged gunman in 1989. Her other interests include playing in the school band, bowling and the Rockton Agricultural Society.
The Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation is a private, independent organization created by an Act of Parliament in 1998. It encourages Canadian students to strive for excellence and pursue their post-secondary studies. The foundation distributes $340 million in the form of bursaries and scholarships each year.
Since its inception, it has awarded 700,000 bursaries and scholarships, with a total value of more than $2 billion, to Canadian post-secondary students. |
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