Bursary Awards Presented at BCIT Marine Campus

Captains, Stan Bowles, Ed Monteiro and Richard Smith were all on hand at an awards ceremenoy held at the BCIT Marine Campus in North Vancouver to make presentations to cadets on behalf of the NPESC. The awards and cheques were presented as follows: –

NPESC Fall Bursary Awards 2024

Nautical Sciences Cadet Harmanpreet Sandhu

Captain Stan Bowles presents Harmanpreet with her award

Nautical Sciences Cadet Michaela Berger

Captain Stan Bowles presents Michaela with her award


BCIT/NPESC First Year Achievement Awards 2024

Nautical Sciences Cadet Jackson Marriott

Captain Ed. Monteiro presents Jackson with his award

Engineeriing Cadet Logan Murray

Captain Richard Smith presents Logan with his award


NPESC Book Awards 2024

Nautical Sciences Cadet Benjamin Hone

Captain Stan Bowles presents Benjamin with his award

Engineering Cadet Logan Murray

Captain Richard Smith presents Logan with his award

All succesful cadets with NPESC Captains, Bowles, Monteiro and Smith

Bursary winner returns from sea and accepts award.

2nd year BCIT Engineering Cadet Karn Chema has just returned from sea time with Algoma and was able to collect his certificate for being one of our successful Fall bursary recipients. Presenting the award to Karn is NPESC secretary/treasurer Captain Joachim Ruether. The presentation was made at the Sailors’ Point memorial adjacent to the BCIT Marine Campus in North Vancouver.

Engineering Cadet Karn Chema accepts his award from Capt. Ruether

VTF Scholarship awarded to BCIT Cadet

It was with great pleasure that Richard Smith attended at the Marine Campus of BCIT in North Vancouver, as a director of the BC Branch of The Nautical Institute, on June 16th to make a presentation to 3rd year Deck Cadet Jeremy Botel.

Jeremy Botel Capt Smith VTF.NIBC Scholarship Award June 2016 (2)

Jeremy is one of three recipients of Vancouver Transportation Foundation (VTF) Scholarships in 2016.

These scholarships are vetted and awarded by the BC Branch of The Nautical Institute on behalf of the VTF. In addition to this award Jeremy was also offered a complimentary year of membership in The Nautical Institute.

Our congratulations to Jeremy and thanks to the students and staff at the campus for permitting us the opportunity to make this presentation.