A Fort McMurray student has been offered $270,000 in scholarships based on his academics and research projects. Saptarshi Bhattacherya, a Grade 12 student at…
Posted: May 28, 2021 8:00 AM MT | Last Updated: May 28
Saptarshi Bhattacherya showing of VADAR. It s a device he created to help people who are hearing impaired. (Jamie Malbeuf/CBC)
A 17-year-old Fort McMurray student has been offered four scholarships with a combined value of almost $250,000 for his innovative ventures in computer science. I was definitely very surprised and exciting. I m still processing the significance of all of this, said Saptarshi Bhattacherya, a Grade 12 student at Westwood Community High School. It s definitely very surreal.
He got the first scholarship offer in February and the most recent one in May.
The University of Alberta offered him the President s Entrance Citation worth $7,500 a year; the University of British Columbia offered him the $40,000 Presidential Scholars award, and both the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo offered him the $100,000 Schulich Leader scholarship.