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Outstanding Local High School Graduate Receives $20,000 Scholarship

Sep 25, 2016 | 10:02 AM

LETHBRIDGE – One local high school graduate has been honoured with one of the University of Alberta’s top scholarships.
 
Dinula De Silva, who graduated from Winston Churchill High School, won the Chancellor’s Entrance Citation Scholarship. The award is worth $20,000 over the course of four years.
 
The scholarship is given to outstanding students that hold an average of 95-per cent or higher when admitted to their first undergraduate degree at the U of A.
 
De Silva had to write a personal essay and provide academic references in order to be eligible. He was among other students, professors and staff recognized at the recent Celebrate! Teaching, Learning, Research event at the university’s theatre.
 
Dinula will be using the money to study at the U of A Faculty of Engineering.