Portuguese Heritage Essay Multimedia Contest

A Federação de Empresários e Profissionais Luso-Canadianos cumprindo os requisitos exigidos pelo tempo de pandemia que ainda vivemos, apresentou virtualmente a cerimónia de atribuição dos prémios “Portuguese Heritage Essay & Multimedia Contest”. Com esta iniciativa, a Federação teve como principal objetivo reconhecer as conquistas académicas, promoção da educação e, essencialmente, celebrar a juventude luso-canadiana.

Convidado a pronunciar-se sobre esta iniciativa o Cônsul-Geral de Portugal em Toronto, José Manuel Carneiro Mendes, afirmou que sempre defendeu no exercício das suas funções “uma maior aproximação e colaboração entre o mundo empresarial e as instituições de ensino”, daí que “está, assim, de parabéns a Federação de Empresários e Profissionais Luso-Canadianos, ao ter escolhido celebrar, também desta forma, o Mês do Património Cultural Português, focando-se nesta ligação fundamental entre Ensino e Cultura como base de desenvolvimento da Economia e da Atividade Empresarial. Estão, também, de parabéns os 15 alunos premiados no âmbito desta iniciativa, do 7º ao 12º ano escolar, que assim se converteram, por mérito próprio, bolseiros do concurso “Portuguese Heritage Essay Contest 2021”.

“To me, being Portuguese means…”

Lavinia H. Tanin
Grade 8
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Elementary School
Sponsor: Nellie Pedro – Gente da Nossa TV

“To me, being Portuguese means…”
(Essay & Multimedia)

Alice Gomes Viana
Grade 7
St. Robert Catholic School
Sponsor: The Faria-Kerr Family

How has my Portuguese heritage
been an influence in my life?

Lucas Neves Azevedo
Grade 12
Chaminade College School
Sponsor: MDC Media Group

“To me, being Portuguese means…”
(Essay & Multimedia)

Joseph Noah De Quintal
Grade 7
St. Helen Catholic School
Sponsor: Larry Vieira

How has my Portuguese heritage
been an influence in my life?

Caroline Vicente Araujo
Grade 12
Loretto College School
Sponsor: Scotiabank

How has my Portuguese heritage
been an influence in my life?

Catherine Jesuina Condinho
Grade 12
Loretto Abbey Catholic School
Sponsor: Cardinal Funeral Homes Ltd.

How can our community attract youth to participate
in Portuguese Canadian cultural and social initiatives?

Daniel Carvalho
Grade 11
Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School

Sponsor: Carpenters & Allied Workers Union, Local 27

How can our community attract youth to participate
in Portuguese Canadian cultural and social initiatives?

David Jose Martins
Grade 9
Brebeuf College School
Sponsor: The Faria-Kerr Family

How has my Portuguese heritage
been an influence in my  ?

Emma Alves
Grade 11
Cardinal Leger Secondary School
Sponsor: Ferma Food Products

How has my Portuguese heritage
been an influence in my life?

Nicole Pinto
Grade 12
Oakville Trafalgar High School
Sponsor: LiUNA Local 183

How has my Portuguese heritage
been an influence in my life?

Nolan Michael Holland
Grade 9
Dr. Frank J. Hayden Secondary School
Sponsor: Kim Ferreira – Speigel Nichols Fox LLP

How has my Portuguese heritage
been an influence in my life?

Patrizia Rella Gama
Grade 12
St. Basil-the-Great College School
Sponsor: IC Savings

How has my Portuguese heritage
been an influence in my life?

Sophia Isabel Mateus
Grade 10
Cardinal Leger Secondary School
Sponsor: Diana Rito

Rina DiRisio, Royal LePage Real Estate Services Ltd.

How has my Portuguese heritage
been an influence in my life?

Willem Antonio Posthumus
Grade 11
The Hill Academy
Sponsor: LiUNA OPDC

How has my Portuguese heritage
been an influence in my life?

Audrey Kathryn Posthumus
Grade 8
St. Cecilia Catholic Elementary School
Sponsor: Eduarda Lee Sousa-Lall