Student Outreach

 CPAA strives to be a recognized and valued supporter of professional planning education in Alberta.

The Community Planning of Association offers a maximun of three $1000.00 scholarships to students who volunteer and/or attend the Association’s Annual Planning Conference.

Students participating CPAA's Conference are eligible to the CPAA Student Scholarship Essay Contest with three $1,000 Scholarships to be won.

2021 recipient - Rose Marie Paonessa, University of Alberta, click here for her winning essay.

2019 recipients - Chloe Fraser, Univversity of Alberta, click here for her winning essay. Gerrit Scheffel, University of Calgary, click here for his winning essay.

2018 recipients - Steven Shuttle, University of Alberta and Stephen Raitz, University of Alberta

2017 recipient - Jessi Aspinall, University of Lethbrige

2016 recipients - Megan Mucignat, University of Calgary and Crystal Jackson, University of Calgary

2015 recipients - Stephen Yu University of Calgary, Brittany Davey University of Alberta and Shandra Shanoada, University of Calgary

CPAA Tom Baldwin Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Planning – this $1000/year scholarship is in honour of a past chairman who passed away suddenly. It is administered by University of Calgary Scholarship Committee.

2020 recipient - Dimitri Giannoulis

2019 recipient - Nikita Kheterpal

2018 recipient - Ishan Maggo

2017 recipient - Simon Cheng

2016 recipient - Lizanne Lanthier

2015 recipient - Kristen Lassonde

2014 recipient - David Borkenhagen

2011 recipient - Amandev Allan Singh

2010 recipient - Kate van Fraassen