An Announcement....Drumroll Please!

We are so thrilled to announce that Sterling was awarded an Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP) Scholarship! His hard work, dedication, obsession, people skills, personality, wisdom and ability to charm everyone he comes in contact with earned him one of only 20 that were awarded. 291 students applied.

Sterling's dream is to work on cars. Where he will specialize, we don't know. But what we do know is that as of February 1 he will no longer be considered a high school student, but a college student in a apprenticeship program. He will spend 2 days a week on campus and three days a week in a shop, learning and working. At the end of June, should he do as amazingly well as we know he will, he will earn his Level 1 Apprentice certification. To put how valuable this is into perspective, students graduating college after being in a two year automotive program have zero apprentice hours.

Ultimately the hope is that he remains with the shop and they, along with the OYAP program, help Sterling become a certified mechanic, assisting him through the mandatory two remaining levels of certification.

Should he not be able to find a shop that has the right ratio to allow for an apprentice, he will go to college for two years and then look for a placement in his field.

We are so very proud of him and everything he has done to get to this place in his life. He is a shining star and his hard work and a million other fabulous things about him has paid off.

Congratulations Sterling!