Here’s your quick morning update on news in the sign industry:

1. The Specialty Graphic Imaging Foundation (SGIF), a non-profit affiliate of SGIA, has announced five scholarship program winners for 2016, including two students entering Toronto’s Ryerson University.

2. The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has donated the historic first colour-standardized national flag to the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. It will be publicly displayed in 2017, when Canada celebrates its 150^th birthday.

3. OOH advertising firm Cieslok Media has partnered with not-for-profit organization Pride Toronto to increase awareness of Canada’s first-ever Pride Month—which began on June 1—through its digital boards.

4. The number of printing companies in the sign and graphics community classifying themselves as ‘entirely digital’ continues to grow, according to a new industry benchmarking survey conducted by SGIA.

5. Toronto-based design firm Shikatani Lacroix has won two Elevate Awards from the ICX Association for its digital signage projects for Adidas Golf in Canada and Cable & Wireless Communications’ Flow stores across the Caribbean.