{"id":2100,"date":"2014-11-06T21:55:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T21:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2015-06-05T21:55:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T21:55:53","slug":"science-student-receives-sus-entrance-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2014\/11\/06\/science-student-receives-sus-entrance-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Student receives SUS entrance scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2101\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/06\/Sahil-C_-Male-Model-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2101 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/06\/Sahil-C_-Male-Model-3-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sahil-C_-Male-Model-3\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/06\/Sahil-C_-Male-Model-3-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/06\/Sahil-C_-Male-Model-3-90x150.jpg 90w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/06\/Sahil-C_-Male-Model-3-119x200.jpg 119w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2015\/06\/Sahil-C_-Male-Model-3.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sahil Chawla, Bachelor of Science<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sahil Chawla, a bachelor of science student <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Starting this academic year, Student Union Society (SUS) is giving away an entrance scholarship valued at $40,000. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Although SUS is funding the scholarship, they do not choose the student to whom it is awarded. SUS\u2019s governance committee makes a list of requirements that they want the winner to have, which is passed along to the UFV student awards committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">One of the main requirements is high scholastic standing, but SUS president Ryan Petersen shares that SUS is more interested in the time an individual spends outside the classroom. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHigh scholastics are very important and being dedicated to your school is great, but what we really want is people who are involved in their communities and volunteer a lot,\u201d he says. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">This year\u2019s scholarship winner, Sahil Chawla, a bachelor of science student, explains that he was very involved in the community before winning the scholarship. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIn high school I started the key club. I was also volunteered with my dance group where I was the captain, and I do traditional Indian dance,\u201d he says. \u201cI was in the process of starting a Steps to Fitness program \u2014 the only thing that stopped it from happening was the weather. Before that, I was also volunteering at the city. We also did summer camps and spring camps as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ufvcascade.ca\/2014\/11\/05\/sus-entrance-scholarship-awarded-in-first-year-to-science-student\/\">READ MORE&#8230;The Cascade<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sahil Chawla, a bachelor of science student Starting this academic year, Student Union Society (SUS) is giving away an entrance scholarship valued at $40,000. Although SUS is funding the scholarship, they do not choose the student to whom it is awarded. SUS\u2019s governance committee makes a list of requirements that they want the winner to &#8230; <a title=\"Science Student receives SUS entrance scholarship\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2014\/11\/06\/science-student-receives-sus-entrance-scholarship\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}