A group of high school students headed to the University of Waterloo this September have been named 2020 Schulich Leaders.
The prestigious award comes with an $80,000 or $100,000 scholarship made possible by businessman and philanthropist Seymour Schulich.
This year, the Schulich Leader Scholarship program supports 100 young Canadians pursing a STEM degree.
"After rereading the email multiple times to make sure that I hadn't misread, I ran into my parents' room screaming and hugged them," said Dhruv Upadhyay, an incoming first-year mechatronics engineering student. "They were really confused about what happened, and I tried to tell them, but I was so excited I couldn't even form the words in my mouth."
Waterloo’s Schulich leaders include young men and young women, all pursuing STEM degrees - two of those students are in the software engineering program, and one in the nanotechnology engineering program.
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