{"id":2635,"date":"2019-01-05T05:24:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T05:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2019-01-05T05:24:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T05:24:57","slug":"50-x-500-awards-for-bc-students-studying-chinese-due-march-1st-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/2019\/01\/05\/50-x-500-awards-for-bc-students-studying-chinese-due-march-1st-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"50 X $500 Awards for BC students studying Chinese. Due March 1st, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To help promote the study of Chinese language and culture in British Columbia, the British Columbia Ministry of Education and the Education Office of the Consulate-General of the People\u2019s Republic of China in Vancouver have partnered to jointly fund scholarship awards for B.C. students.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0\u00a0<em>BC-China Award for Excellence in Chinese<\/em>\u00a0offers up to fifty (50) $500 Awards for B.C. students studying Chinese.\u00a0Each Award is jointly funded by the B.C. Ministry of Education ($250) and the Chinese Consulate in Vancouver ($250). \u200b<\/p>\n<h2>Selection Criteria<\/h2>\n<p>Applicants must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident<\/li>\n<li>Ordinarily reside in British Columbia<\/li>\n<li>Be school-age (not older than 19 years of age by June 30, 2019)<\/li>\n<li>Be enrolled as a full-time Grade 12 student at a public or independent school in British Columbia<\/li>\n<li>Have completed a Mandarin Chinese language course at the Grade 11 level in British Columbia with a minimum course grade of 86 % \u2013 course completion attained through challenge, equivalency or other course credit is not eligible<\/li>\n<li>Be enrolled in or have completed a Mandarin Chinese language course at the Grade 12 level<\/li>\n<li>Have attained a grade of 73% and above\u00a0in all completed Grade 11 courses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information is available <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/education-training\/k-12\/support\/scholarships\/scholarships-awards\/bc-china-award-for-excellence\">HE<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/education-training\/k-12\/support\/scholarships\/scholarships-awards\/bc-china-award-for-excellence\">RE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Application due March 1, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help promote the study of Chinese language and culture in British Columbia, the British Columbia Ministry of Education and the Education Office of the Consulate-General of the People\u2019s Republic of China in Vancouver have partnered to jointly fund scholarship &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/2019\/01\/05\/50-x-500-awards-for-bc-students-studying-chinese-due-march-1st-2019\/\">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\/2635"}],"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=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/byrnecreek-scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}