[Canada] SaskPower diversity awards program
Award description: There are two awards categories:
- Entrance: up to seven awards will be presented in each academic year for students entering first-year studies.
- Continuing: up to eight awards will be presented in each academic year for students entering second-year studies and beyond.
- Award value is $1,500.
- Awards are presented on a one-time only basis and recipients may only receive one SaskPower post-secondary award during their studies.
Eligibility: To be eligible for a SaskPower diversity award, a student must:
- Be from one of the four designated/targeted groups as defined by Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission.
- Be enrolled in a full-time certificate, diploma or degree program at an accredited post-secondary institution in Saskatchewan with preference given to programs related to the electrical industry which may include, but are not limited to, engineering, trades, technology and business programs.
- Be a Saskatchewan resident.
You are considered a Saskatchewan resident if any one of the following is true: you have always lived in Saskatchewan; you or your spouse filed a Saskatchewan income tax return for the last tax year; or, your parents filed a Saskatchewan tax return for the last tax year.
Definitions of diversity groups: Eligible students must be from one of the four designated/targeted groups as defined by Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. Summaries of these are:
- Aboriginal people – For equity purposes, Aboriginal people are those who identify themselves as First Nations, Metis or Inuit.
- Visible minorities – This includes non-Aboriginal people of colour. Members of visible minorities may, for example, be persons of African, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Pacific Islande, East Asian, West Asian, Arab or Latin American ancestry.
- Persons with disabilities – For equity purposes, persons with disabilities:
- have persistent physical, intellectual, mental, psychiatric, sensory or learning conditions that require a technical device and/or personal support or services which enable such persons to perform the essential functions of a job;
- require some form of accommodation such as extra rest breaks or time off/leave to obtain treatment as necessary, or modifications to the job responsibility, job site or work hours;
- consider themselves, and believe an employer or potential employer would consider them, disadvantaged in finding, retaining or advancing in employment because of that condition.
- Women in under-represented occupations – This includes women entering a field of employment where positions held by women total less than 45 per cent.
Criteria for selection: Award applicants will be evaluated based on:
- academic achievement;
- leadership qualities; and
- balanced lifestyle (i.e. community involvement, participation in extra-curricular activities).
Although students are eligible to apply for the SaskPower Diversity Awards Program and the SaskPower Scholarship Program, the same student cannot receive both awards.
All applicants must complete the application form and submit it directly to the awards office of their accredited Saskatchewan post-secondary institution, stamped received no later than September 30.
Incomplete applications will NOT be considered.
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