City of Burnaby Bursary Award

Supporting education, supporting future

The City of Burnaby Bursary Award program encourages the City’s public secondary school students to pursue their post-secondary education and training. Burnaby has 8 public secondary schools and a $1,000 bursary is awarded to one student at each school.

Application criteria:

Candidates must:

  • Be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Burnaby.
  • Be in grade 12 and eligible to graduate (within the year of application) from a public secondary school in Burnaby School District 41.
  • Enrolled/accepted to a post-secondary institution in Canada and registered in a minimum of 3 courses.
  • Have demonstrated community involvement and volunteerism.

Nominations

Each Burnaby public secondary school may nominate up to 3 bursary award recipients. Once the applications are reviewed by the Council’s Executive Committee, a City councillor or a designate will present the successful recipients with a certificate at a council meeting.

2024 City of Burnaby Bursary Award recipients

Congratulations to the 2024 recipients of the Burnaby Bursary Awards!

  • École Alpha Secondary School, Jilian Tolzmann
  • Burnaby Central Secondary School, Alina Huang
  • Burnaby Mountain Secondary School, Sonia Shibary
  • Burnaby North Secondary School, Hu (Tiger) Du
  • Burnaby South Secondary School, Ermira Progri
  • Byrne Creek Community School, Anita Nambuuza
  • École Cariboo Hill Secondary School, Sania Shenasa
  • École Moscrop Secondary School, Aaria Ahmad

Have questions?

You can call the Finance Department at 604-294-7362 or email [email protected].

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