2025 Secondary School Award Recipients

Recipient – Tanya Bhardwaj

Award – $1,500

Tanya is an exceptional student who has excelled in her classes during her years at Claremont Secondary School. In addition, she has contributed to her community through several volunteer initiatives. She is the first to help in her neighbourhood – every winter she’s out helping shovel snow from her neighbours’ driveways and every summer she volunteers to babysit neighbour’s children 4-5 days a week. At Claremont, she has been a member of the Kiwanis Key Club  – a youth volunteer organization that spearheads several fundraising activities to help the less fortunate. She has also been a member of Model UN Club and this year was awarded Best Delegate at the Victoria Model UN Conference. 

Tanya has a passion for medical sciences. For the past year, she has volunteered at the Saanich Peninsula Youth Health Clinic. Her supervisor speaks very highly of Tanya and her dedication and commitment to the program.

Tanya has been accepted to the highly competitive Nursing Program in Victoria beginning at Camosun and ending at UVIC.

Recipient – Taylor Fisher

Award – $1,500

After taking a dual credit course for Early Learning at Camosun College, it helped Taylor become more confident to continue her journey to become a youth counsellor and consider more options for post-secondary.

She intends to take the Mental Health and Addictions certificate course at Camosun in Fall 2025 to further learning in mental health, and counsel young adults. Taylor hopes to help youth reach their goals and aspirations in the same way her teachers and counsellors helped through her journey.

Recipient – Wylie Sparks

Award – $1,500

Wylie has been accepted into the Mechanical Engineering program at Uvic and would like to become an aerospace engineer in the future.

Her family does not have the funds to fulfil her dream and she has worked since she was 10 years old to save and help her family. She has an intellectual curiosity and strong problem solving skills that will serve her ambitious aspirations.

Recipient – Harnoor Grewal

Award – $1,500

Harnoor came to Saanich from India 3 years ago and entered Grade 10 in Parkland where she initially enrolled in English Language Learner classes as well as regular academics. Desite of the initial language barrier, Noor worked incredibly hard and has consistently maintained an ‘A’ average in her Grade 10 through 12 years. Additionally, her course load throughout her time here has been very academically rigorous and includes Law 12, Anatomy and Physiology 12, and a very rigorous dual-credit course, first year Psychology, which is offered by Parkland Secondary in partnership with Camosun College , where she achieving 89%.

Additionally, Noor is an incredibly kind, mature, and generous student who gets along well with both peers and adults.she has extended herself by going into the community as a volunteer at the local youth clinic, has obtained Level C First Aid training, and has worked as a pharmacist assistant.

Noor’s career goal is to obtain a Batchelor of Science degree in nursing, for which she is registered at Camosun College commencing this September. Noor is an exemplary student and citizen.