B6 Terrace Review — Wednesday, April 18, 1990 Caledonia students s quali - bursaries, s Tami Moritz { _ Grade 10 Caledonia student Tami Moritz has been chosen for this summer’s Pacific Rim Student Study Tour, along with Susie Dow from Skeena and Ashley Tait from Thornhill Junior Secondary. The three Terrace students are part of a group of 15 from School District #88 who will travel to Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia for two weeks this summer. The total cost of the tour per student will be about $3,000. Each participant’ from this region gets $1,900 from. the Ministry of Education via the schoo] district administration. Tami says that she and her parents will share the additional costs. Tami works part-time at Shoppers’ Drug Mart. Carolle Michaud Grade 12 Caledonia Senior Secondary School student Carolle Michaud recently qualified for a $1,000 scholar- ship as a result of her 1700+ Standardized Ministerial score in Provincial Scholarship exams. Carolle wrote three scholarship exams in biology 12 (610), geo- graphy 12 (570) and physics 12 (544), Contenders need at least 475 points out of a possible 800 in each exam to qualify. Carolle has applied to the University of Waterloo to train for optometry. She presently works part-time for optometrist Paul Clarke. Carolle does recep- tion, pre-examination, checks prescriptions in glasses and orders eyeglasses. Because she wears contact lenses herself, Carolle has become interested in eyes and corrective lenses. Carolle has been learning as much as she can about the make- up and workings of contact lenses. Carolle thinks she would be interested in returning to Ter- race to work as an optometrist. school marks, 0 tour Orient She says the tour will include “lots of sightseeing, stays with families, an elephant trek through the jungle and visits to schools.” She wants to ‘“‘see anything and everything!”’ The 15 students will meet in early May to.get a complete itinerary of their trip and begin preparations for the travels overseas. Tami already has her passport. Next week, she will commence a series of vaccina- tions necessary for travel in Asia. And she’s been reading everything she can get her hands on. The night before they leave for Asia, all the B.C, par- ticipants will meet for a last-— - minute orientation in Van- couver. Tami was chosen from six ap- plicants at Caledonia. The basic prerequisites were initiative, energy, diplomacy, maturity and community spirit. Caledonia . principal Tom Hamakawa says they looked at work habits, school and extra-curricular ac- tivities and the quality of the ap- plication and reasons for want- ing to join the program. A com- mittee of three — Hamakawa, counsellor Mags Gingles and Social Studies Dept. head Henry Dreger — were unanimous in their choice of Tami. Hama- kawa said there were ‘‘a couple of close seconds.”’ Tami | would give her a different perspective on other cultures, with first-hand experience, especially with the home-stay component; a chance to meet new people and make new friends; plus an opportunity to share her experience with the community of Terrace through presentations to the school board, Social Studies classes, the media and clubs if they request it, She plans to take ‘‘lots of slides’? with this goal in mind. Eighteen-year-old Nathan Wilkerson recently qualified for a $2,000 scholarship for being among the top 20 in his provin- cial scholarship exams. Nathan achieved 800, the highest Stand- ardized Ministerial score possi- ble on his chemistry 12 exam, and 739 on his physics 12 exam. He has still to write his geography 12 and algebra 12 ex- ams. The scores of the top three exams will be added together (aggregate scores) and rated against everyone else in the pro- vince who writes the scholarship exams. The highest score possi-. ble is 2,400. . Nathan has applied to both the University. of Victoria and Brigham Young University in * Utah. He would prefer to go to the U.S., but that depends on the terms of the scholarship awarded him. Nathan hopes to - become a mechanical engineer. © He presently works on his fami-- ly’s farm. Nathan is also a clerk: for the Church of Jesus Christ . - of Latter Day Saints. ene apencsttiag EE 1g ebey Ee oe prs ee felt the experience © Jason Schulte, a 17-year-old Grade 12 student at Caledonia, will travel to Quebec this sum- mer for six weeks at the College de Riviere du Loups. From June 23 - August 5, he will be part of a French immersion program and live with a French-Canadian family. Jason is the recipient of a French Language bursary pro- vided by Secretary of State. Jason says, ‘‘They pay for everything except transporta- tion.”’ Jason worked at Nikko’s Pizza to raise his own money for the transportation costs. Jason Schulte Schulte has been studying French since he entered Grade 8, and he took-a French course at Northwest Community College to supplement his learning. He is also studying Latin, ‘‘just for in- terest’, he says. “I want to travel alot in my lifetime.’’ Jason says he will probably be a teacher of some kind. Jason is excited about the trip to Quebec. He thinks it'll be fun. He says he has a reasonable command of French, so there’s no need to be afraid. -Stacee Martin Stacee Martin, 16-years-old and in Grade 11, will be travell- ing to Victoria at the end of this month for an Interchange Con- ference om Canada and the Pacific Rim. The only represen- tative from Terrace out of 15 British Columbia students chosen, Stacee will attend the ‘conference with representatives from across Canada. The Ministry of Educa- tion (International Education Department) will sponsor the event. To be chosen for this con- ference, Stacee had to write an- essay on why she thought she should be chosen. Stacee wrote, | ' “+As we enter the 90s, the world as a Global Village is becoming more and more a reality. I think ‘the: younger generation needs a student: greater knowledge of the Pacific Rim countries, as we will be dealing with each other much more in the future. With our generation entering the work- force, we will need to know and understand the markets of the Pacific Rim as they continually become a larger force in our economy."’ For one week, the participants will be involved in workshops, sharing and tours of Victoria. They will be double-billeted with Victoria families (each of the two. participants billeted together will be from different provinces). Stacee was selected last year to spend one week in Ottawa at the Encounters Can- ada program, sponsored by the Terrace Rotary Club.