Application: 2025 WRDSB Past-Directors’ Bursary – Student Application

Deadline: Friday, May 2, 2025

Amount: $2000 to be divided among the number of successful applicants.

Bursaries Available: The bursary award will be divided so that several successful applicants can be recognized.

Description of Bursary

The Past-Directors’ Bursary was established to provide funding for Waterloo Region District School Board students enrolled in grade 12 who, upon graduation, are pursuing a trade through college or apprenticeship and who have not been selected to receive an award at their graduation ceremony. 

The selection committee, composed of the Director of Education, Chair of the Board of Trustees, Vice-Chair and Past-Chair, meets to review the applications and select bursary recipients.

Successful applicants will be notified in mid-May. The Bursary presentations will take place at the Board meeting on Monday, May 26, 2025.

Requirements

The Bursary will provide funding for Waterloo Region District School Board students enrolled in grade 12 who, upon graduation, are pursuing a trade through college or apprenticeship and who have not been selected to receive an award at their graduation ceremony.

How to Apply

School staff are asked to nominate students.  Students should complete the 2025 WRDSB Past-Directors’ Bursary – Student Application and return it to their Guidance Counsellor by Wednesday, April 30, 2025, or sooner to allow staff time to confirm the information in Section 2 of the application form.  The completed application form is to be emailed by the school to heather_mckinna@wrdsb.ca by Friday, May 2, 2025.

If you have questions, please contact heather_mckinna@wrdsb.ca.