Project Hero – Financial Aid
Algonquin College is among several Canadian colleges and universities who have signed on to Project Hero. This initiative provides free tuition to the children of Canadian soldiers who are killed in active service.
Algonquin College became the first Ontario College to Implement Project Hero in October 2009. A first-year Business student at the Pembroke Campus received free tuition when her father was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2006. Read more on the Project Hero award.
To be eligible to receive up to eight semesters of paid tuition, applicants must be:
- enrolled in a full-time program at any one of Algonquin College’s three campuses
- citizens or permanent residents of Canada
- under 26 years of age
Applications for Project Hero can be made by submitting the following details to studentawards@algonquincollege.com or delivering written documents to the Registrar’s Office:
- Student name and student number
- Name of deceased parent
- Rank of deceased parent
- Regiment of deceased parent
- Death certificate or other documentation indicating death of parent during activity military service.
Applications must be submitted before the end of the term. Retroactive applications will not be accepted. Project Hero will be applied in the form of a tuition waiver after Day 10 of each eligible term. Recipients are automatically eligible to continue receiving their Project Hero benefits for each term they are eligible without needing to resubmit an application each term.
Project Hero recipients are eligible to apply and be considered for all other financial aid and student awards, but the reduction in tuition costs from Project Hero will be considered in those applications.