Vigilant Futures Partners with the Ecole de technologie superieure to Fund Graduate Scholarships
by Adelaide Z | September 23, 2010Vigilant Futures made the burden and worry of paying for university a little easier today with $3, 000 in scholarships for graduate students at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS). The scholarship is open to engineering students doing their Master’s degree in Electricity, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Software.
ÉTS is part of the Université du Québec network and specializes in teaching and research in applied engineering and technology transfer. Just walk into their main building in their downtown campus and you’ll be greeted by solar powered vehicles, lightweight submarines and lots of other very interesting feats of engineering their students have, over the years, entered (and won) in international engineering competitions.
The school caters to students with CEGEP diplomas (better known as junior college outside Quebec) who were perhaps disinterested by the prospect of attending university but throughout their junior college career decided otherwise. These students often face loads of prerequisite classes their CEGEP diplomas didn’t provide for entry into university. That’s where ÉTS comes in and continues the ‘hands on’ tradition these students are used to and mix it with the right number of theory classes too.
Giving everyone an opportunity to learn is precisely why Vigilant was more than happy to partner with ÉTS and offer their students the extra incentive to keep at their studies.
Read the original press release at CSRWire: Vigilant Futures Partners with the Ecole de technologie superieure to Fund Graduate Scholarships .