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STC Alberta Funded Scholarships and Award ProgramsSTC Alberta is committed to technical communication education at the post-secondary level. As such, we fund scholarship and award programs at Mount Royal College in Calgary and Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton. These programs are open to all students in the technical communication degree programs at these schools. Each year, faculty members of the two colleges independently nominate scholarship and award recipients based on criteria defined by STC Alberta. Grant MacEwan College Celebrates Excellence in Technical CommunicationThe third annual Grant MacEwan College Awards Evening for the Bachelor of Applied Communications in Professional Writing program was an evening to honour students who excelled in their academic standing in the technical writing specialization. Lucille Mazo, Instructor, Technical Communications, shared information to those who attended the evening about the numerous benefits of joining the Society for Technical Communications organization which provides valuable information on careers, seminars, and conferences for professional development. 2007 Award Winners The following awards were presented:
2007 MRC Scholarship and Award RecipientsOn March 29, at the Mount Royal Lincoln Park Campus, STC Alberta President Ruth Maryniuk had the pleasure of presenting five noteworthy students enrolled in the Bachelor of Applied Communications – Technical Communications program with the 2007 STC Awards. Marc Chikinda, Acting Dean of the Centre for Communication Studies, hosted the awards presentation. Dr. Glenn Ruhl, Brian Traynor, and Jennifer Caswell were also on hand to congratulate the students. Student memberships were given to these students:
The 2007 STC Scholarship award winner is Richard Lazarowich.
HistoryTo recognize academic excellence and encourage student involvement in our community, STC Alberta began an award system for students in Mount Royal College's Bachelor of Applied Communications in Technical Writing (now Technical Communication) program in 1997. The system awarded student memberships in STC to the students with the highest GPAs in their respective years of the program. [ Past Recipients ] In 1998, STC Alberta decided to expand our support through the creation of a scholarship for a student in the second year of the program. We voted to donate $3,000 to create an endowment fund to operate the scholarship, and applied for and were successfully awarded $3,000 in matching funds from STC. (That matching-fund program no longer exists.) The first scholarship was awarded in February 1999. The award criteria are a combination of academic achievement and demonstrated leadership qualities. For many years, STC Alberta provided small thank-you gifts to volunteers at our AGM. In 2001, the Administrative Council revisited this practice. Our volunteers made it very clear that they did not contribute to our community to obtain thank-you gifts and generously voted to redirect funds toward increasing the endowment of the Scholarship at Mount Royal. The Administrative Council set an annual contribution of $1,000. That endowment now amounts to almost $10,000. Only net investment returns are used to pay the scholarship, not the principal, and so the endowment generates an annual award that varies, but is always less than $500. In 2004, the Administrative Council voted to create awards for the Bachelor of Applied Communication in Professional Writing program at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton comparable to those offered to Mount Royal. The first awards were presented, amid fanfare and excitement, at a celebration in February 2005. Finally, in 2005, STC Alberta decide to create a second scholarship for Grant MacEwan student. The award amount for this scholarship ($500) is identical to that of the Mount Royal scholarship, and the criteria are similar. CriteriaScholarshipThe scholarship awards $500 each to two students (one at Mount Royal and one at Grant MacEwan) who are nominated by the faculty of their respective schools and who meet the following criteria:
AwardsEach award is a one-year student membership in STC and is given to the student with the highest GPA in the fall semester of his or her year in the technical communication degree program at his or her college. The student must be taking a full course load and must have a minimum GPA of 3.00. Other Scholarships and AwardsThe Society for Technical Communication offers scholarships and awards to both secondary and post-secondary students. For more information, visit the STC website.
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