Thank you to everyone who participated in our scholarship!
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Fall 2021 Stories from Abroad: British Columbia Study Abroad Scholarship.
Congratulations to:
Our winners will each receive $500, and they will be sharing th...
Stephanie Wong, University of Victoria, winner of the Fall 2021 BC Study Abroad: Stories from Abroad Scholarship
Study Abroad Destination: Reykjavik, Iceland
Stephanie is a fourth-year student from the University of Victoria, expecting to graduate with her Bachelor of Science in Microbiology in Winter 2022. She is currently in Reykjavik, Iceland, completing her exchange semester at the University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands). Stephanie has been involved with her university’s Biochemistry and Microbiology Student Society, as well as playing in soccer intramurals. Outside of school, she has played soccer with local soccer clubs for the past 17 years. Although she has done quite a lot of travelling, this is her first-time doing exchange studies and liv...
Sophia Berezowski, Capilano University, winner of the Fall 2021 BC Study Abroad: Stories from Abroad Scholarship
Study Abroad Destination: Aarhus, Denmark
Sophia is a third-year Motion Picture Arts student at Capilano University. Next spring semester Sophia plans on attending the New Screens Experience at VIA University in Aarhus, Denmark. Creativity has always been a huge part of her life has been in dancing, singing, and acting all throughout elementary and high school, so film really felt like a natural progression to her. After having focused on filmmaking for three years already, Sophia is beyond excited to go back into other creative realms through this program and develop herself through studying abroad. Sophia enjoys lavender tea, the colour...
Joshua Fang, Simon Fraser University, winner of the Fall 2021 BC Study Abroad: Stories from Abroad Scholarship
Study Abroad Destination: Czech Republic
Joshua is business student in his fourth year at the Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business. After completing two and a half years at another institution, Josh took a year and a half off to travel, work and enjoy life before entering into his time at SFU where he is now in his last year of studies concentrating in Finance and Management Information Systems. Throughout his university career, Josh has been privileged to intern at great organizations such as GrantBook, International Justice Mission and Accenture and will beginning his post-grad life as a Strategy Analyst at Accenture once he...