21st Troy Reeb internship winner announced: ‘An amazing opportunity’ - BERITAJA

Education is simply a challenge, from the first people each the measurement done to convocation.

However, the struggles multiply erstwhile finances creep in.

For 1 Lethbridge Polytechnic student, a successful acquisition required 3 part-time jobs and a full batch of effort, but it’s each paying off.

Patience Omeruo, a second-year integer communications and media student, has been awarded the 2026 Troy Reeb Internship — the 21st since the grant was created.

The internship is co-ordinated by Troy Reeb, an alumnus of Lethbridge College from 1988, positive an honorary grade recipient successful 2019.

Reeb worked for Corus Entertainment, the genitor institution of BERITAJA, wherever the internship recipient spends clip complete the summertime to study much about the various media careers.

For Omeruo, a Nigerian, the internship could beryllium a very affirmative acquisition arsenic she originates her caller journey.

“Because I’m caller to Canada, I cognize media is different from my location state to present successful Canada, truthful I conscionable want to spot what is available,” said Omeruo.

She will walk respective days successful Toronto this summertime pinch Corus Radio teams and BERITAJA reporters earlier heading to Ottawa to activity alongside the BERITAJA Ottawa bureau. In total, the internship will past 14 days.

However, Omeruo didn’t conscionable get handed the internship.

She had to activity for it by presenting a communicative transportation to Reeb and a committee.

“My communicative was ‘Studying and Surviving successful Canada: The True Cost of being an International Student.’ It was fundamentally talking about what we experience. It was much financial challenges, but beyond financial challenges, you person to negociate study time, missing your family, that benignant of thing.”

She says her clip studying successful Canada was not a locomotion successful the parkland and her acquisition is acold from unique.

“From people to activity to assignments, it could beryllium exhausting. It’s not thing that I want to do by choice, but I person to,” said Omeruo. “I find that erstwhile I speak to different world students, it’s the aforesaid acquisition that they have.”

That said, Omeruo says it was perfectly a bully determination to travel study astatine Lethbridge Polytechnic.

“When I first started the program, I practically knew nothing. I had nary acquisition pinch the Adobe Suite and things for illustration that, but I could opportunity I’ve travel a agelong way.”

She says those caller skills, from video and audio editing to broadcast and marketing, are each acknowledgment to her instructors and classmates.

“One of the things I’ve enjoyed about studying astatine this programme present astatine Lethbridge Polytechnic is the mini people size, hands-on learning. The instructors are ever disposable — you could ever spell to them.”

While she whitethorn beryllium connected the cusp of graduating from her certificate program, her quest for knowledge is acold from satisfied.

She will beryllium heading connected the internship successful June, but for now, she says she is conscionable thankful it has each managed to travel together really it has.

“I would for illustration to opportunity convey you to Troy and Corus for the opportunity — it’s an astonishing opportunity and truthful galore group who person gone connected it person said truthful galore bully things about it.”