All funds raised by GVMWA go to our educational programs in mining related fields.

In 2007-2008 we donated $2200.00 to the Mineral Resources Education Program of BC (MREPBC) to help defray the costs of their various endeavors including the reprinting of the binder for their Grade 5 Integrated Resources Unit on Mining, educational videos on DVD and the purchase of the minerals across Canada poster.

 

The transportation subsidy for the Mining Museum of BC at Britannia Beach was $3150.00 allowing a total of twenty-one schools to take advantage of the $150.00 subsidy per school.

 

The BCIT Foundation $500.00 bursary was awarded to Kit Mak, a first year student in Mining Technology at BCIT.

 

Two $1000.00 bursaries at UBC were awarded to Morgan Jane Wittstock, a second year honours student in the Geological Science program and Patricia Oka, a third year student in Mining and Materials Engineering.  A note of thanks goes out to Mr. Gordon Marshall who donated $1000.00 to the GVMWA bursary at UBC in memory of our late member Mrs. Kaye Marshall thus enabling us to award two bursaries this year.

 

Our $500.00 bursary at SFU was not awarded this year because there was no qualifying student to receive it.  However, the award has grown to $750.00 with outside donations and we hope to award it next year.

 

The Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair award of $50.00 was awarded to Heather Thompson of Crofton House School in Vancouver for her project on zircons entitled “Ashes to Ashes—Searching for Evidence of Ancient Volcanoes”.  She was also presented with the Gold Pan Trophy to be displayed at her school for the year.

 

The BCIT Foundation $500.00 bursary for 2008-2009 has been awarded to Erin Livingstone who is studying in the Mining and minerals Technology field.