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I am the recipient of your award (Youth Education Award for Brain Tumour Survivors) from 2015.When I received the award, I had this to say.

As part of Yun Seo Park (Christine)'s application for a Youth Education Award in 2018, she submitted this essay on her experience.

Thanks to this generous scholarship, I now have the opportunity to make my career dream come true - Youth Education Award Recipient 2019

I have always wanted to pursue my passion of helping others, and this scholarship will truly help make that happen. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2019

With his award I will be able to pursue my dreams of being a teacher. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2019

Receiving this award will go a long way towards achieving a huge goal of mine to attend university. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2019

Youth Education Award Recipient 2019 - Having brain cancer has helped shape me into the person I am today as well as who I want to be in the future, a pediatric oncologist.

I am very honoured to be a recipient of the 2018 Brain Tumour Foundation Youth Education Award for Young Brain Tumour Survivors

This award will help me fulfill my dreams and ease my university voyage. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2014

I remember the day I was diagnosed with a brain tumour. It changed everything for me and my family. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2014

I am extremely proud and fortunate to have received this award. - Brain Tumour Youth Education Award Recipient 2014

Thanks to this award, I am one step closer to achieving my goal of proving that anything is possible and that there is life after cancer. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2018

Art to me is a gift. I would love to share my gift of Art with others and help heal others with Art. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2018

This will give me the opportunity to grow as a person, achieve a better quality of life, and some day give back. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2018

Having brain cancer is hard personally as well as financially so having this Scholarship is a tremendous relief - Youth Education Award Recipient 2018

This award will allow me to continue to pursue my dream of being a sports journalist while reducing the stress money can cause. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2017

Thanks to this generous support, I will be launching my career debt-free, freeing me to give myself fully to the needs of my future students. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2017

I’m a 19 year of student from South Western Ontario who never lets a minute go by without it being wasted. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2017

This scholarship will help me focus on my career instead of thinking about how I will repay my student loans. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2017

Having successfully battled a brain tumour, I have experienced firsthand the benefit that biomedical technology has in saving a person’s life and want to give back in that area.

My journey as a brain tumor survivor defines who I am today. - Youth Education Award for Brain Tumour Survivors recipient 2014

This award will help me achieve my dream of becoming a pediatric nurse and giving back to the profession that impacted my journey as a brain tumor survivor greatly.

Cancer knocks you down, but along the way I have had the hands of family, friends and total strangers to help me back up. Youth Education Award Recipient 2016

I feel my experience has given me the strength and courage to face many challenges as well as inspire me to become a nurse - Youth Education Award Recipient 2016

I am very eager to embark on a new journey and begin my first year in the Bachelor of Commerce Program. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2016

I’m thrilled to have been accepted into the University of Toronto’s Life Sciences program. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2016

As a brain tumour survivor, this award means the world to me. It will give me the chance to give back to the profession that impacted and improved my life.

With this award, I will be able to finally live my dream. This award will help me move forward in my life. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2015

I hope to work for a not-for-profit as it’s been a goal of mine ever since my cancer journey. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2015

This award will reduce my stress throughout university, so I can focus on my learning instead of school debt. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2015

I believe my brain tumour had a positive effect on my future, without this experience I wouldn't have been interested in a post-secondary education.

I want to demonstrate to others that while having a neurological condition is life altering, it does not have to stop you from pursuing your dreams.

I’m so excited to have the chance to go to school this fall – not something most kids my age would likely say. - Youth Education Award Recipient 2013

My history, though I’m only 17, is a long and complicated one. - Youth Education Award for Brain Tumour Survivors recipient 2013

I want nothing more than to make young children experiencing an illness feel the way the nurses made me feel – safe, loved and appreciated.