New mechatronics student recipient of prestigious scholarship

Amanda Rampertab, a first-year mechatronics engineering student, has received an $80,000 Schulich Leader Scholarship for a student pursuing a degree in an engineering program.

A graduate of Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School in Oakville, ON, Rampertab was selected on the basis of her outstanding admission average of 95.2 per cent and her demonstrated leadership in school life and within the community.

Awesome co-op program

“I selected Waterloo because of its awesome co-op program,” said Rampertab, whose brother is also an engineering student at Waterloo. “I became interested in engineering after participating in robotics challenges in high school, but chose Waterloo engineering when I saw the great co-op jobs my brother and his friends had. I appreciate the options and opportunities this scholarship provides to me.”

Seymour Schulich, Canadian business leader and philanthropist, created the scholarship program three years ago, which encourages high school graduates to embrace science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines in their future careers. Scholarship winners are known as Schulich Leaders and this year there were 40 selected from 1,147 nominees.