Wexford students to win €12,000 WIT Scholarship
County Wexford students are set to be awarded a €12,000 scholarship at Waterford Institute of Technology ( WIT).
The college has launched its 2021/2022 President’s Scholarship Programme for CAO applicants.
The €3,000-a-year scholarship encourages and rewards young people who show a capacity to shape a better society and each year up to five exceptional undergraduate students are awarded scholarships with a total value of up to €12,000 per person.
In what will be the sixth year of the scholarship programme aimed at CAO applicants, WIT President, Prof Willie Donnelly is calling on family, friends, communities, sporting clubs, people in the arts and volunteering organisations to encourage inspiring Co Wexford people who hope to start college in September 2021 to put themselves forward for the scholarship.
Co Wexford has fared well in the past six years.
Among the 23 President’s Scholarship recipients to date are five students from each corner of Wexford. They include: Lauren English Adams, a past pupil of FCJ, Bunclody; 2018 President’s Scholarship recipient Aoife Molloy from New Ross; 2019/2020 President’s Scholarship recipient Megan Lanigan, from Gorey. In her application she outlined: her participation in secondary school life, which included being involved in Young Social Innovators, AIB Build a Bank Challenge, Student Enterprise Programme, Meitheal Mentoring Programme and the Yearbook Committee. She won the Student of the Year Award in Transition Year. Over the duration of her school years she made ‘GoPro’ videos to capture her experiences and posted them to YouTube, these videos are used by her school to showcase Transition Year to incoming students. She has also completed both Silver and Bronze Gaisce Presidents Awards. She hopes in the future to work as a Social Media or Digital Marketing Manager in a multinational company, with her course BA (Hons) in Marketing and Digital Media.
In spring 2021 a ceremony will be held to formally announce the five recipients for 2020/21. The five include two Wexford students from Enniscorthy and Ramsgrange.
WIT President Prof Willie Donnelly said: ‘ These are exceptional individuals whom we are proud to call students of WIT. Since 2016, the breadth of initiative shown by scholarship students has been across community, volunteering, innovation and creative spheres. We welcome applications from CAO applicants to WIT who may be creative, are innovators, are leaders, or people who make significant contributions to community. The pandemic will have impacted many people’s lives and we would like for college applicants who have made a difference to be given the support and encouragement to apply.’
Each President’s Scholar receives an annual bursary of €2,000 per year of study along with €500 per semester. President’s Scholars are also part of the Student Ambassador programme for the duration of their studies, representing the college and the academic School in which they study.
For more details see www.wit.ie/CAOscholarship.