During my first week of Grade 10, I was signing up for dual credit courses when the coordinator mentioned that they could strengthen my resume and help with scholarship applications. He told me about a friend’s son who had covered his university tuition through scholarships that hardly anyone applied for.
I remembered that conversation because I wanted to go to university too, and I knew I’d need scholarships myself.
At the start of Grade 11, I began searching for scholarships myself. The information was scattered across different websites, and a lot of them wanted me to create an account and fill out registration forms. That got tiring. I just wanted to see which scholarships I could apply for without signing up for so many sites.
In March 2026, I started working on the first version of ScholarAB. I made it free, with no ads and no account required, because those were the things I wanted when I first started searching.
I’m a high school student from Medicine Hat, and this project grew out of my own experience trying to find scholarships. I figured other students were running into the same problems, and I wanted to make that search easier.
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