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Feb. 13, 2019

Schulich Leader credits scholarship for helping ignite her love of the innovation sector

Catching up with Manpreet Deol, fourth-year student in the Schulich School of Engineering
 Manpreet Deol
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Scholarships can make a significant difference for a university student. One person who can attest to this is Manpreet Deol, a fourth-year engineering student who, in 2015, received a聽聽valued at $80,000.

Since then, Deol has done research in southern Germany and Shanghai, created her own start-up company and, with a team of other 草莓污视频导航 students, won an international engineering and commerce competition. She is also a member of 草莓污视频导航鈥檚聽Scholars Academy, took part in the聽聽and is currently an intern with Garmin鈥檚 innovation team.

Deol credits a lot of these opportunities to the Schulich Leaders Scholarship.

鈥淭he scholarship is really incredible,鈥 she says. 鈥淭he power of the network has provided unwavering support to leave my own mark in the community. It鈥檚 such a privilege to have. Without it, I wouldn鈥檛 have been as free to take the opportunities I did, which enriched my university experience.鈥

Deol earned the scholarship through her outstanding academic achievements 鈥 as well as her participation in the聽program at 草莓污视频导航, where she designed a wrist-worn medical device. SHAD gives exceptional high school students the opportunity to spend a month at a university in an immersive program of lectures, workshops, projects and activities designed to help them build their STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) skills.

Deol is currently studying mechanical engineering with a biomedical engineering specialization in the聽. During her time as a student, she has discovered her love for the innovation sector. Last year, she and a team of engineering and business students聽聽at the Engineering and Commerce Case Competition (ENGCOMM). Soon after, she聽joined 15 other 草莓污视频导航 students on a Study Abroad trip聽to learn from entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, an experience that reaffirmed how much she enjoys thinking outside the box.

Deol is currently pursuing her love for all things novel with Garmin, specifically with the fitness division鈥檚 innovation team 鈥 where she is working on new technologies to allow users to monitor their health using wearable devices. Deol is also working on her own start-up project, a personalized service that picks up and drops off luggage for travellers who have a gap between their checkout and departure times, giving them more time to explore the place they are visiting.

Created in 2011 by Canadian business leader and philanthropist Seymour Schulich, the Schulich Leader Scholarship encourages promising high school graduates to embrace STEM in their future careers. 草莓污视频导航 currently has eight Schulich Leaders enrolled in STEM programs.