PCSS Alumni Association

The Port Credit Alumni Association is pleased to announce that the recipient of our $750 Alumni Scholarship for 2010 is Jia Hui (Allen) Gou.

As a new immigrant to Canada in June 2005, Allen arrived in Canada with no friends and no English language skills. Thanks to the English as Second language program at both his grade 8 school and subsequently in the ESL program at Port Credit, Allen was able to meet other students who spoke the same language and was thus able to have some friends while they were developing their skills in English.

Allen worked extremely hard to develop his English skills and joined many clubs and teams so he could interact with other students and learn more language skills.

Allen was a member of the math club, chess club, robotics club, chemistry club, rocketry team and SciTech student council. Allen participates in community activities and was on the Mayor's Youth Advisory Committee, where he has been contributing ideas and donating his time in Community events such as Christmas tree lighting, Winter Olympics torch relay, Earth Hour, and Canada Day Celebrations.

With all his hard work, Allen has made the Honour Roll every year and has been accepted into the very difficult Electrical and Computer Engineering program at the University of Toronto.

As a note of interest, Allen impressed the Alumni Scholarship committee by attaching photos of himself participating in all the activities in which he was involved. Congratulations on receiving our Alumni Award for your achievements.