WATCH: In just a few days, it will be the 35th anniversary of the Polytechnique massacre. In honour of the 14 women killed, for the tenth consecutive year, the school has given a major award to a Canadian female graduate student. This year’s winner of the Order of the White Rose Scholarship seems destined to reach incredible heights. Dan Spector reports.
Makenna Kuzyk, a mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Alberta, was introduced as the latest winner of the $50,000 scholarship at the Montreal school on Monday. Kuzyk, who is from Calgary, recently became the first woman to be admitted to the International Test Pilots School Master of Science in Flight Test Engineering program, which operates out of the London International Aiport in southern Ontario.“I was shaking because I just finished my pilot’s licence, which pretty much drained my bank account,” she told reporters on Monday. “I wasn’t sure how I was going to pay for my master’s degree… but this is going to go miles in helping me.
“I feel like my dream has grown from just going to space and wondering what’s beyond our skies to actually growing the platform,” she said. “I think Canada has a lot of resources to do it, but we just haven’t done it yet.”
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