By Mary Dever | National Director of Development
Acceptance to SHAD is a competitive, application-based process. Youth display top academic achievements, plus creativity, initiative, drive, and exceptional interpersonal skills. For the 2015 SHAD program, SHAD received the most applications in its 35-year history - more than two applications for each space in the program. In early February, SHAD sent program offers to 620 of Canada's brightest future science, technology, engineering and math leaders. There is also a waiting list of candidates, should plans change for those who currently have been awarded a spot.
SHADs in 2015 represent the best of Canada's diversity - gender, cultural, geographic, and socioeconomic. Youth from large urban centres and tiny, remote villages have been awarded places in the prestigious SHAD program. To ensure family finances aren't a barrier to participation, SHAD's donors ensure that the program fee is affordable. Youth whose families can't afford the program fee receive generous support, in the form of bursaries, so they can confidently take their well-earned place at SHAD.
In 2015, SHAD runs concurrently at 12 Canadian universities from July 5-July 31. Planning is well underway to provide transformational experiences for each and every youth this summer.
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