MLA Guy Gentner will donate $6,500 for scholarships and/or bursaries to North Delta graduates. The bursary or scholarship may only be used for post-secondary education.

Purpose:
This award is intended to encourage excellence in public speaking, while developing leadership and the ability to think and speak clearly and intelligently.

Eligibility:
Eligible participants must be BC residents, registered in a minimum of 6 blocks, and enrolled in Grade 12 at a secondary school in North Delta.

Contest Format:
This oratorical competition will take place at both the school and district levels for the five North Delta schools.

Each secondary school will hold an oratorical contest for interested Grade 12's. The top two students at each school will receive $250 and proceed to the district level of the North Delta Oratorical Scholarship competition (NDOS). Adjudication will be based on one prepared and one improvised oration. Winning contestants must compete in both levels of the NDOS competition in order to receive the scholarship prizes.

The district NDOS competition will follow the same format as the school competition. Adjudication will again be based on both a prepared and improvised oration. Althouth the prepared oration must be used for both the school and district level competitions, the improvised oration will have different topics than those at the school competition. The scholarship awards are as follows:

First Place: $1,250
Second Place: $1,000
Third Place: $750
Fourth Place: $500
Fifth Place: $500

For further details and application deadlines, go to the Delta School District's webpage, http://web.deltasd.bc.ca, or ask your highschool counsellor.