Value: Up to $7,000
Application Deadline: July 28, 2023

Requirements (review the application form for full details):

• Priority will be given to the following programs: Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Engineering
• Applicant must be a Black African Nova Scotian student
• Applicant must have attended a Nova Scotia P-12 Public/Private school in Nova Scotia
• be accepted or registered as a full-time student in one of the prescribed university programs.
• demonstrate continued scholastic achievement (attach an official academic transcript - internet copies are not acceptable)
• submit a typed essay (300 words - first time applicants) describing past involvement with, and vision for future development of the African Nova Scotian community (award is only available for a maximum of three consecutive years)
• Students must submit an application each year to be considered for award
• must not possess a professional degree
• be willing to participate in school to work transition follow-up surveys
• attach two letters of reference (one reference from a university professor and one character reference [non-relative])attach two letters of reference (one reference from a university professor and one character reference [non-relative])