NVIT entrance awards handed out

MERRITT – Several students going to the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology received entrance awards and scholarship money.

17 total awards were handed out among 11 different students with the dollar amounts for each award ranging from $500-$4,000.

The award winners were:

• Casey Holmes Jr. Memorial Entrance Bursary
  • Lindsay Morrison
    • $500
• FPSE Local 19 – NIVTEA Entrance Scholarship
  • Mahe Awan
    • $1,000
• Mitchell W. Shuter Entrance Award – Mature Student
  • Andrew Gaudrey
    • $2,500
• Mitchell W. Shuter Entrance Award- Merritt Secondary School
  •  Luke Bassett
    • $2,500
• Native Northwest Reconciliation Entrance Bursary
  • Lindsay Morrison
    • $500
• Native Northwest Reconciliation Entrance Bursary
  • Cheyenne Shouting
    • $500
• Nicola Naturalist Society Entrance Scholarship
  • Lindsay Morrison
    • $1,000
• Teck Highland Valley Copper Entrance Scholarship
  • Lindsay Morrison
    • $1,000
• F. Gordon Antoine Memorial Scholarship – Nicola Valley Secondary School Student
  • Luke Bassett
    • $5,000
• Robert A. Lisle Memorial Transition Entrance Award
  • Rosalyn Gozarin
    • $1,000
• Technical Safety B.C. Entrance Bursary
  • Lindsay Morrison
    • $4,000
• Technical Safety B.C. Entrance Bursary
  • Cheyenne Shouting
    • $4,000
• Technical Safety B.C. Entrance Bursary
  • Skyla Sterling
    • $4,000
• NVIT Secondary School Entrance Scholarship – Stein Valley Nlaka’pamux School
  • Tala-Rae Hance
    • $1,000
• NVIT Secondary School Entrance Scholarship – Lillooet Secondary School
  • Cedar Kage-Thevarge
    • $1,000
• NVIT Secondary School Entrance Scholarship – Desert Sands Community School
  • Taise Shintah
    • $1,000