Fall & Winter Opportunities 

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May
8 - Courses and Campus Life information session at Medicine Hat College  
9 - St. Mary's University in Calgary - Open House 
Mid - Health Sciences Career Academy application should be in soon 

​June
1 - Local award for business programs due - check Money Hunters 
1 - Essay award due - check Money Hunters 
1 - Agriculture and Food related scholarship due - check Money Hunters 
9 - St. Mary's University in Calgary - Open House
30 - Grade 11 Merit Scholarship at U of L - for all grade 11 students 

July
21 - Apply for the Careers Next Generation Health Career Academy

Summer 
* EQUS - award given to applicants who are customers of EQUS  
* Taber and District Health Foundation for student going into Health Care fields - students must attend High School in Taber, Vauxhall or Grassy Lake 
* Legion Award - for students who's parent, grand parent or great grand parent worked in the army, police or fire department. 
* Vauxhall Business Association Award - for students of Vauxhall High 
* Health Careers Academy at LC, MHC and U of L.
Strategies to help you Apply for Awards:
  1. Pick one hour per week to find and apply for awards. 
  2. Use the list of "Likely Awards" in Money Hunters and work on awards one or two months before they are due. 
  3. Apply to your post-secondary schools Awards program
  4. Take the most positive approach - if you need money for school make the awarding agencies say no to you - don't count yourself out.  

​Where to start?

1) Use the button above to look at a few awards available in our own communities. 
2) Then email Garth and get your Google Docs list of "Likely Awards" called Money Hunters.
3) Sign up for the three award search engines listed in Money Hunters 
4) Search the Government of Alberta Awards search engine and read the information about Student Finance.  Click the button below.  
5) Check the Awards page at the university or college you plan to attend - here are some common pages: 

How to Use This Site 

The HOME PAGE has some key announcements and even a motivating thought at the bottom. 

CAREER START page has information on the five common directions students choose at the end of high school, including: 
1) Post Secondary 
2) Trades and Technology 
3) GAP years 
4) Armed Forces
5) Work World Options 

About Us has information about the career practitioner

Useful Links has,not surprisingly, links to great career and job sites.  Often specific industries make efforts to recruit when they recognize they will be facing a shortage of skilled workers.  

Graduation and Transition has links to sites that students and parents might use when planning specific transitions.  A check list for High School graduation, links to the NCAA for athletes and links to the SAT and ACT sites. 

News and Opportunities is an attempt to pass on information to students and their parents.  Find:
  • specialty programs
  • summer camps
  • student internship opportunities
  • volunteer and work "help wanted' postings
  • open houses and more. 

Click on the button below to see a video produced by the Government of Canada regarding the new world of work. 
Future of Work

Learning Clicks 

Learning Clicks is a Government of Alberta program that helps students understand the benefits of Post Secondary Education and also the options available and how students participate in the various programs. 
Learning Clicks
Career Wiki Pinterest Boards

Just Thinking - These Two Thoughts May Be Related 

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer, (1875 - 1965) Theologian (Doctorate Degree), Musician, Medical Doctor, Prisoner of War, Writer, Nobel Prize Winner.  

Stay hungry, stay foolish and do what you love." - Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011