Dear Members,
NWT Tourism is happy to announce the recipients of the NWT Tourism and Rio Tinto 2024 scholarships.
- Recipient of the Rio Tinto Indigenous Student Scholarship: Taylor Dawn
Taylor is currently enrolled in Bachelor of Arts Recreation, Sport and Tourism. heavily involved in land-based programming. She participated in 5 programs with Northern Youth Leadership and worked as a wilderness junior guide. She also participated in 2 programs with Black Spruce. After gaining more experience in the tourism industry, she would like to start her own tourism business.
- Recipient of the NWT Tourism Scholarship: Sommer Wiley
Sommer is a Sahtu beneficiary who just completed her first year in flight school at Adventure Aviation in Grande Prairie (AB). Within the next year or two, she plans on completing her flight training and getting her first job as a pilot. Once her career begins, she plans on coming back Norman Wells and fly for a local airline.
- Recipient of the NWT Tourism Scholarship: Ty Lafferty
Ty is in his first year of the Environmental and Natural Resources Technology Program at Aurora College in Fort Smith. Ty is Tlicho First Nation and is especially interested in learning how Traditional Knowledge and Science work together. Last summer, he completed his wildfire training and worked with Environment & Climate Change to provide logistical support to the firefighters. Someday, he would like to own his own tour company.
Background
Northwest Territories Tourism is pleased to encourage the pursuit of excellence in the Tourism Industry in the Northwest Territories by offering annual NWT Tourism Scholarship awards.
Since 2014 NWT Tourism has been offering annual scholarships to NWT students pursuing post-secondary studies in hospitality and tourism. This is the tenth year that NWT Tourism has offered scholarships. This is the second year we are including pilot and aircraft mechanical engineer (AME) training as criteria for our scholarships. Also, this is the fourth year we have partnered with Rio Tinto in awarding the Rio Tinto Indigenous Student Tourism Scholarship.
On behalf of NWT Tourism, we congratulate this year's recipients of the NWTT & Rio Tinto scholarships and wish them the best of luck in their future endeavours.
All the best,
Donna Lee Demarcke
Chief Executive Officer
NWT Tourism