Five South Shore students are among this years group of 19 scholarship winners from an industry-government partnership. The Pengrowth-Nova Scotia Energy Scholarship Program awards up to 12 scholarships, valued at 10-thousand dollars each, to high school graduates pursuing energy studies at university. It also offers up to ten, 25 hundred-dollar scholarships for students pursuing energy-related trades and technology programs at the Nova Scotia Community College.
Recipients are chosen based on academic achievement, community involvement and extra-curricular activities, and must have demonstrated an interest in the Nova Scotia energy sector.
Pengrowth Energy Corporation, Pengrowth Management Limited and the province has invested $3 million in the scholarship program to date. Since the program's inception in 2005, 130 students have received scholarships and grants.
SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS:
-- Alecia Bowers, Liverpool Regional High School
-- Kyle Boyle, North Queens Rural High School
-- Thomas Lloyd, Liverpool Regional High School
-- Haley Newell, Barrington Municipal High School
-- Ryan Newell, Barrington Municipal High School