{"id":2116,"date":"2018-01-09T04:38:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T04:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2018-01-09T04:44:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T04:44:05","slug":"adventures-in-citizenship-deadline-is-this-friday-january-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/2018\/01\/09\/adventures-in-citizenship-deadline-is-this-friday-january-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder! Adventures in Citizenship deadline is THIS Friday, January 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travel to Ottawa to gain a better understanding of our country. Through meetings with political leaders, senior officials and others, you will learn a great deal about the workings of our democratic institutions. Through meeting one another and having discussions among themselves, you will learn to appreciate the diversity of Canada and the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify, you must:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<ul>\n<li>Be between 16 and 18<\/li>\n<li>Have excellent academic standing<\/li>\n<li>Be involved in Community Service with an emphasis on non-school related volunteering<\/li>\n<li>Have leadership abilities<\/li>\n<li>Be a Canadian citizen or have Landed Immigrant Status<\/li>\n<li>Be able to go to Ottawa from April 28 \u2013 May 2, 2o18<\/li>\n<li>Complete the application form <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/rotary-adventures-in-citizenship-application-form\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Answer \u201cWhat does being Canadian mean to you?\u201d in a 250 word essay<\/li>\n<li>Attend an interview with a panel of Rotarians \u2013 to be scheduled at the end of January.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>All expenses are paid, not including spending money. Please note that 3 scholarships are also available for the participants in the program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please submit your application to Ms. Falsetto before Friday, January 12th, 2018. <\/strong>The Byrne Creek Scholarship Committee will then shortlist the candidates. The Burnaby\u00a0Rotary\u00a0Club will make the final decision.<\/p>\n<p>More information is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/rotary-adventures-in-citizenship-flyer\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please see Ms. Falsetto with any questions.<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>LF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel to Ottawa to gain a better understanding of our country. Through meetings with political leaders, senior officials and others, you will learn a great deal about the workings of our democratic institutions. Through meeting one another and having discussions &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/2018\/01\/09\/adventures-in-citizenship-deadline-is-this-friday-january-12th\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/2121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}