Talented Surrey students have recently garnered awards and recognition in a range of areas, winning scholarships and placing in contests. Read about the students and their accomplishments below.

• Privia Randhawa
  Toronto Dominion scholarship
  
  Privia Randhawa of Fleetwood Park secondary is one of 20 recipients of the Toronto Dominion scholarship for community leadership worth up to $70,000. The scholarship covers post-secondary tuition and living expenses and provides summer employment with TD Bank for the next four years.
  
  Randhawa received the award for her many community activities. She started a mentorship program in elementary schools, promoting sports and other positive activities in order to prevent kids from joining gangs. She also volunteers with the environmental organization Nature Matters and basketball fundraising group Hoops4Hope, as well as organizing youth in her area to pick up street garbage.

• For more information about the scholarship, visit the TD Canada scholarship website .
• Read the Vancouver Sun article about Privia Randhawa .

• Matthew Warnock
  Toyota Earth Day Scholarship Program
  
  Fraser Heights secondary student Matthew Warnock is the winner of a $5,000 Toyota Earth Day Scholarship for his extensive work around environmental issues. A total of 20 winners from across Canada received the award.
  
  A founder of H2O Canada, a non-profit group that works to promote sustainability education and action, Warnock worked within the district to lead environmental actions in district schools, developed the Surrey Sustainable Schools Initiative to encourage a district-wide commitment to sustainability, and has lead groups to Africa to build and install water filters.

• Read more about the scholarship and Matthew Warnock’s environmental work on the Earth Day Scholarship website .

• Ella Li
  Finalist in Vancouver Sun anti-gang poster contest
  
  Ella Li is one of the eight finalists chosen from over 300 entries. The Elgin Park secondary student created the image of a skull out of gangster photos.
  
  Li says that when people view her poster they will first see the skull, and then move closer to see the photos of gang members. They then “take a step back and see the whole picture and the skull again. That is the time for people to wake up and realize that what they have seen before, such as gangsters' cool lifestyles, are leading them to death. Is it cool to be a gangster? Well, it is definitely not cool to be dead.”

• See Ella Li’s poster online at the Vancouver Sun .

• Paige Bouwman, Trevor Harris and Michael Stuart
  Second spot in a province-wide management skill competition
  
  This three-member Elgin Park secondary team competed against 101 teams from 23 high schools in the CMA BC High School Scholarship competition in March at Simon Fraser University’s Vancouver campus.
  
  The gifted business students were required to prepare a report which forecast the implications of Youtube selling new movie release downloads and advising the company’s fictional senior management.

Last Updated: May 4, 2010