Hashtag: #Education
Appleby Awards 2021 Scholarships & Bursaries
Appleby’s Bermuda office has awarded education scholarships and bursaries to Briana Medeiros, Egypt Cann, Milaun Perott, and Jada Rogers-Ingemann. A spokesperson said, “Appleby’s Bermuda office is pleased to award four education scholarships and bursaries in 2021. The firm has been providing scholarships and bursaries for over 40 years to qualified... Read more of this article
Scholarships: Kathryn Mason & Owenea Roberts
Kathryn Mason has been awarded the 2021 KPMG Scholarship and Owenea Roberts was selected as the recipient of Frontier’s 2021 Scholarship. The KPMG Scholarship is valued at $20,000 per annum, and the Frontier Scholarship is valued at $15,000 per annum, for a total of up to three years. Ms Mason graduated from Warwick Academy in 2020 and is commencing... Read more of this article
Scholarship Awarded To Kamilah Cannonier
Ms. Kamilah Cannonier has been selected as the recipient of the E. Laverne Furbert Continuing Education Award, a $5,000 scholarship offered by the family of the late Laverne Furbert. The award seeks to support Bermudians over the age of 30, who are looking to attend the Bermuda College in pursuit of further education towards a first degree. It was... Read more of this article
Justified Melodies Music Hope Camp Showcase
Justified Melodies Music Hope Camp held its first showcase on Friday [Aug 6] at Bright Temple AME Church. A spokesperson said, “Justified Melodies Music Hope Camp [JMMHC] held their first showcase on August 6, 2021, at Bright Temple AME Church. The participants performed excellently in front of their parents and guardians. “The goal of the... Read more of this article
Bermuda College Guidelines: Masks, Testing
Bermuda College said they will be welcoming students and employees back to campus in a few weeks with “enhanced protocols and guidelines in place, designed to keep the campus open and everyone – students, employees and visitors – safe.” In an email to all students this week, the College noted students “will be required to present... Read more of this article
BFA Legends Scholarship 2021 Presentation
The Bermuda Football Association held their Legends Scholarship Awards today, with Kauai Evans, T’Syi Showers, Jannis Roberts, Bakari Furbert and Richard Jones Jr. all receiving awards. A spokesperson said, “The Bermuda Football Association held the Legends Scholarship Awards on Thursday, August 5, 2021, at the Clyde Best Centre of Excellence.... Read more of this article
Alpha Kappa Alpha Education Award Recipients
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Sigma Xi Omega Chapter selected Talliyah Butterfield from CedarBridge Academy and De’Asia Symonds from The Berkeley Institute to receive education awards for study at Bermuda College. A spokesperson said, “Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Sigma Xi Omega Chapter have selected two outstanding candidates... Read more of this article
17 Selected For BIOS Summer Internships
The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences [BIOS] announced that 17 Bermudian students were selected for 2021 BIOS summer internships. A spokesperson said, “Each year the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences [BIOS] selects a handful of qualified Bermudian students to participate in the Bermuda Program. The summer internship opportunity pairs participants... Read more of this article
Four Recipients Of Conyers 2021 Legal Awards
Conyers announced the recipients of their 2021 Legal Awards, with Rakaya Simmons, Kyra Dunstan, Sophie Rylands and Guielle Bean all receiving educational awards. A spokesperson said, “Conyers is delighted to announce the four recipients of its 2021 Legal Awards. This year the firm presented over $150,000 in both new and renewed funding to 15 Bermudian... Read more of this article
Somersfield Students Receive Full IB Diploma
The first cohort of IB Diploma students from Somersfield Academy were all successfully awarded the full IB Diploma. A spokesperson said, “Somersfield Academy has announced that their first cohort of IB Diploma students were all successfully awarded the full IB Diploma. “This 100% pass rate far exceeds the 89% global pass rate for the May... Read more of this article
BIOS Research Leads To Prize At Princeton
BIOS Ocean Academy alumna Emma O’Donnell has earned the Princeton Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Prize for Best Thesis in Ecology for her undergraduate thesis ‘One Fish, Two Fish: Measuring Patterns of Reef Fish Biodiversity in Bermuda Using Environmental DNA Metabarcoding.’ A spokesperson said, “Emma O’Donnell, 22, graduated... Read more of this article
19 Students Receive ABIC Education Awards
The Association of Bermuda International Companies [ABIC] Education Awards luncheon was recently held, with awards presented to 19 students. A spokesperson said, “Nineteen Bermudian students received financial support for their further education through the island’s largest post-secondary scholarship programme at the recently held annual Association... Read more of this article
