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There are many scholarships for Waterloo students. If you are searching for scholarships for a particular high school located in Waterloo, please select the appropriate school from the list below. The scholarship database contains scholarships for Waterloo students in the following categories:

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$10,000
Scholarships are awarded to undergraduate engineering or pre-engineering students who are enrolled full-time in a post-secondary educational institution and pursuing a Bachelor of Science or Engineering degree in a course of study that traditionally has been a preparatory curriculum for the HVAC&R profession.  Applicants must have a cumulative college Grade Point Average (GPA) of at least 3.0 on a scale...

SMART Scholarships

Deadline: Dec 06, 2024
$38,000
The Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service Program, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), is a unique education and workforce development opportunity for aspiring leaders in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The SMART Scholarship Program offers two scholarship opportunities, the SMART Scholarship and the Ronald V. Dellums Memorial SMART Scholarship (Dellums SMART Scholarship).The SMART Scholarship...

$18,000
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant is one of the most prestigious grants available to emerging figurative artists, as well as one of the most substantial. It is one of the longest-standing, with an illustrious history of recipients spanning more than half a century. It is also unique in its scope, in that it is available to students and artists around...

Rubincam Youth Award

Deadline: Dec 15, 2024
$500
The Rubincam Youth Writing Competition was established in 1986 to honor Milton Rubincam, CG, FASG, FNGS, for his many years of service to the National Genealogical Society and to the field of genealogy. These awards encourage and recognize our youth as the next generation of family historians.The awards may be given annually to a student in either the junior category...

Burger King Scholars Program

Deadline: Dec 16, 2024
$60,000
Through the BK℠ Scholars program, we’ve awarded nearly $60 million to over 51,000 deserving students across North America. Our goal is to grant one scholarship for every BK® restaurant — that’s more than $7 million each year!Education is a key part of success, and we focus on bringing that to students in North America through our BK Scholars Program. The...

$20,000
For more than 40 years, the SME Education Foundation has been a leader in supporting the next generation of manufacturing and engineering talent. Our scholarship program awards millions of dollars to hundreds of graduating high school seniors and current college students pursuing an associate or bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, engineering or related discipline.With more than 60 distinct scholarship programs, the...

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Waterloo is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is next to Kitchener City, and one of the smallest of the three cities within the Municipality of Waterloo. It is a part of the assigned 675,000 acre land to the Iroquois alliance that consists of the League of Six Nations. The city has a yearly nine-day festival in the twin cities of Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. This particular event is based on the German Oktoberfest, and is usually coined as Canada's Greatest Bavarian Festival. It begins on the Friday which precedes the Canadian Thanksgiving, and runs until Saturday after.

Waterloo is a haven for those who are into culture and arts. The city is home to numerous galleries which feature different artistic creations that range from symphonies to jewelry and painting. It will be good to visit the main cultural tourist attractions of Waterloo city: Button Factory, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Earth Sciences Museum, Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games, Brubacher House Museum, Don Heritage Crossroads, and Optometry Museum of Visual Science.

The very best places to go shopping in the city are the Cambridge Centre, Conestoga Mall, Elmira Farmers Market, Downtown Cambridge Business Improvement Association, Kitchener Downtown Business Improvement Area, Kitchener Market, and Southworks Mall. Cambridge Centre has around 140 shops and services; Conestoga Mall boasts of world-class shopping and entertainment with a lot of retail outlets; Southworks Mall offers unique shopping experience in historic Galt. It is the largest antique market within Canada.

There are a lot of sites within the city to go to for rest and relaxation. Places such as the African Lion Safari, Waterloo Central Railway, Aboretum, U of G, Bell Homestead National Historic Site, Bingemans Big Splash, Bingemans FunworX, and Brick Brewing Co. Limited, are amongst the places which could be a good "escape" from the continuous stresses of daily life.

The economy of the city of Waterloo is greatly drive by its service-based sector. The biggest companies within the area are Wilfrid Laurier University, Manulife Financial, University of Waterloo, and Sun Life Financial. Because of the abundance of insurance companies which are based in the area, the city is often called "The Hartford of Canada." It likewise has a very strong sector in technology with numerous high-tech firms. The leading business within this particular area is Research in Motion, the makers of Blackberry. Also included within this roster are: Maplesoft, Dalsa, MKS Inc., Sandvine, Descartes Systems and Open Text Corporation.