Quinte Region Student selected to receive Potash Corp’s Food Security Youth Trip Scholarship Student heading to India: Local Bayside Secondary student Theresa DeCola has been selected as one of the 25 from across Canada to receive the Potash Corp’s Food Security Youth Trip Scholarship. PotashCorp has partnered with Free The Children and Me to We to choose students who are interested in the issue of food security an opportunity to volunteer in a community in India next summer. Theresa, along with the other participants will learn first-hand about sustainable development and bring the spirit of global citizenship back to their schools and communities. This program will help the participants to develop valuable leadership and interpersonal skills. The youth will be given the opportunity to explore local villages, to learn about India’s cast system, take part in Hindi lessons and to help support community development. The students will have a unique opportunity to learn about then uniqueness of agricultural life in Udaipur. They will also participate in hands-on workshops and learn about the many poverty issues in Asia. The participants are selected based on their personal interest, merit and demonstrated commitment to increasing food security around the world. They are already leaders, trying to improve conditions in their local and global community and who will return to encourage and motivate others to get involved in helping others. This is not just the only honour Theresa has received this year. At the Quinte Regional Science and Technology Fair 2014 Theresa was one of five students to receive the Belleville Kiwanis Canada-wide Science Fair Award. Theresa will be travelling to Windsor from May 10-17, 2014 to compete on the National Stage with 500 other students from across Canada at the 53rd Canada-wide Science Fair. The 500 students are selected from over 100 regional science fairs held across the country every year. This will be her fourth trip to this...
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 01:09:11 +0000
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