NewsCohort 2023 Highlights: Aaron Abay Presented with Vistara Elevate Award 2023BEEDIE LUMINARIES — Each year, the Vistara Elevate Award is presented to a student of ethnic and racial diversity, who is pursuing a degree in the areas of finance and/or STEM Read More
ArticleBetween the To-Do List and Your Passions: Maggie Pugosa on First-Year, Sports, and All Things In-BetweenBEEDIE LUMINARIES — Maggie Pugosa is many things: she’s a student at the University of British Columbia, an earlybird, a pasta-lover, a Beedie Luminary from Cohort 2022, and an athlete. Most Read More
ArticleClimb, Climb, and Climb Again: Avie Waterfall on the Outdoors and Achieving the UnthinkableBEEDIE LUMINARIES – One afternoon while scrolling on Instagram, we saw this post of Avie’s impossibly impressive summer activities. Aside from absolute awe from the beauty of the scenery Avie had Read More
NewsConversations That Matter: Interviewing Beedie Luminary Nour Suliman 3 Years LaterBEEDIE LUMINARIES — From our 2019 Cohort, Nour Suliman is currently completing her Bachelor of Science (Major in Behavioural Neuroscience and Minor in Microbiology and Immunology) at the University of British Read More
ArticleMaking Connections Today for Hackathons Tomorrow: How Azzam, Ethan, and Tayyib Placed Third in a Nationwide Samsung CompetitionBEEDIE LUMINARIES TEAM–A couple of months ago, an email arrived in our general inbox just after lunchtime. Titled “Samsung Solve For Tomorrow Challenge”, it was hard to miss and certainly intriguing. Read More
ArticleThe Best of Both Worlds: Ivy Liao On Balancing Her Academic and Athletic IdentitiesThis is Ivy Liao. As a Beedie Luminary from the 2019 Cohort and one of the inaugural recipients of the new Graduate Studies Award, she recently completed her undergraduate degree at Read More
ArticleSrusti Subash: Same Interview, Second YearSrusti Subash from Cohort 2021 is an upcoming third-year commerce major at the University of British Columbia. In her short time at UBC, she has already made quite a large impact: Read More
NewsOak Bay News: 3 Oak Bay High grads earn prestigious Beedie scholarships, mentorshipOAK BAY NEWS – Funding $11,000 a year for up to 4 years, the monetary support also comes with mentors. Oak Bay High boasts three Beedie Luminaries in its graduating class Read More
NewsKelowna Now: Kelowna teenager awarded with $44K scholarship to attend UBCOA grade 12 student in Kelowna has been awarded with a Beedie Luminaries scholarship of up to $44,000. Abdulrahman Alhamwi, who is graduating from Rutland Senior Secondary, has been recognized as Read More
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