FMPSD column: Trying again on the previous faculty yr
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We ended a outstanding, record-breaking yr with our highschool grads garnering over $100,000 in scholarships from throughout North America, provincial Indigenous awards, grants, and a lot extra.
Thanks to our superb college students, workers, mother and father/guardians and everybody for serving to us in Doing What’s Greatest for Children. We admire and applaud your resilience, and understanding as we pivoted by on-line and in-class adjustments. Benefit from the pictures. We’ll goodbye this August.
Leona Anderson, our longest serving worker, retired this yr after 42 years with the Division. She labored within the Operations & Upkeep division. She held a number of positions by the years starting from custodian, constructing operator, delivery/receiving to most not too long ago courier and painter We proudly launched an Elders’ Council this yr, which consists of 5 native elders, who will advise the Division on Indigenous issues, and upcoming occasions. Elders from the encompassing space: Mikisew Cree First Nation, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Fort McMurray First Nation 468, and Métis Native 1935 sit on the Council. Maryam Tsegaye from ÉcoleMcTavish Excessive College was the primary Canadian pupil to win the Breakthrough Junior Worldwide Video contest. Her video on quantum tunnelling was chosen from 5600 entries from virtually 200 international locations. She gained a $250,000 (USD) scholarship, the varsity will obtain a $100,000 state-of-the-art science lab with $50,000 going to her trainer, Kathy Vladicka. And, to high all of it off – she’s now heading to Stanford College! Savannah Graves and Sawyer Mercredi on receiving the Alberta College Board Affiliation’s (ASBA) prestigious Honouring Spirit: Indigenous Pupil awards this June. They’re the one college students from Fort McMurray to be honoured; and solely 12 awards got throughout the province. These awards “rejoice distinctive First Nations, Métis and Inuit college students nominated by members of their training communities, based mostly on their exemplary management, braveness and dedication to their cultures and academic paths.” This yr ASBA obtained 204 nominations. Westwood Group Excessive College’s Shreeya Patel gained a $120,000 scholarship from the College of San Francisco, declined it, and is now heading to the famend Columbia College in New York to pursue Engineering.
Doing What’s Greatest for Children. For extra info on any of our 16 colleges, or to register for the 2021-2022 faculty yr, go to fmpsdschools.ca. For actual time updates, observe us on Twitter and Insagram at @FMPSD and like us on Fb.
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