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Northern Futures Scholarship Program

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All northern graduates should have the opportunity to make their dreams come alive. Northwestel's Northern Futures Scholarship Program can help make those dreams a reality.

Every year, Northwestel awards ten scholarships worth $2,500 each, to select post-secondary, full-time students enrolled in the following programs:

Telecommunications
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Business/Commerce

Five scholarships will be available exclusively to aboriginal students - one each in Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon and northern British Columbia.

Five scholarships will be awarded based on field of study, as mentioned above. Scholarships are open to students residing in Northwestel's operating area who:

Are attending or will be attending post-secondary education on a full-time basis for the entire academic year
Have participated in extracurricular and community organizations, clubs or charities
Have demonstrated significant leadership in organizations, clubs or charities

Each application will be reviewed and finalists chosen based on academic achievement, extracurricular and community participation and leadership activities. Finalists will be interviewed by a panel comprised of Northwestel leaders and community members.

How to apply

We encourage you to prepare and submit your application to us through our website. You don't have to do it all at once. You can save your work in a secure environment and complete it over a series of sessions.

To be eligible for consideration for the 2010/2011 academic year, applicants must ensure:

By July 31, 2010 at 4:30 PST, the following are complete and submitted, via online or mail to the address below:

Official application form.
A written essay, maximum of 1000 words in length, answering the following question: (The question will be posted by the end of February)
Two (2) letters of support.

By July 31, 2010, the following are received, via mail to the address below: