Four Canterbury Business students won provincial awards in the Ontario Business Educators Association's (OBEA) annual subject contests.  These are competitions open to students across the province in each of the Business subject areas.  The top entries from each class are sent in by the teacher to the provincial assocation to be judged against the best in Ontario.  Winners were recognized at an the OBEA awards banquet in Toronto.  The Cantebury students were as follows:

Garrigue Srna - 3rd place in Web Page Development Contest - Junior Division

Caitlyn Wilson, Lena Elchamaa and Corina Wan - 3rd place in Desktop Publishing Contest - Senior Division

Corina Wan - 1st place in Web Page Development Contest - Senior Division

Nominations:

•      Anastasia Matsell-Savage – Academic Perseverance

•      Jason Guo – Academic Perseverance

•      Jordan Deutsch – Service and Caring

•      Essery Waller – Service and Caring

•      Brendan Sheedy / Juliana Rodger / Ken Kelly-Turner / Michael Pugliese – Youth and Technology

•      Mesha Sagram – Youth Activist

•      Ben Shur – Youth Activist

•      Chris Galley – Young Athlete

•      Fiona Sauder / Megan Carty – Arts and Culture

•      Sky Vallance – Youth Activist

•      Sean Ryan – Young Athlete

Award Winners:

Top 4 with a certificate of Recognition:

•      Sky Vallance – Youth Activist

•      Fiona Sauder / Megan Carty – Arts and Culture

First Place Winner

•      Sean Ryan – Young Athlete

Fiona Sauder / Megan Carty –  4^th Stage NAC

Monies raised for Hopewell Eating Disorder Program

Social Awareness Committee: $4,000

Flora MacDonald: Future Generations: Afghanistan

Starting within 48 hours of the event, Canterbury students collected - in only 3 days - over $5,000 to assist the victims of the Haiti earthquake; much of this was matched by the government of Canada.

Otto Hall – Student lead in raising $12,000 at the Bows and Butterflies evening to support the Royal Ottawa Hospital Adolescent Program for Mental Health.

Grade 12 Comtech Students Jeffrey Burge, Alexandra Georgaras, Fiona Sauder, Vanessa Caicedo and Gareth Imrie won top honours in a nation-wide student video contest staged by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.  The annual competition is designed to raise awareness among Canadian youth of the importance of safe use of the Internet as part of the "Think Before You Click" identity protection initiative.

3rd Annual Multimedia Awards for OCDSB Students

Student Choice Awards

In the Podcasting Category

1st Place: Music - by Ahiney Laryea, Lesley LeRoux

CHS Teacher: Steve Willcock

In the Stop Motion Category

1st Place: The Mitten - by Joyce Png, Alexei Vidal, Yueh Wei Chan

CHS Teacher:  Steve Willcock

Algonquin College Awards

2nd Place: The Mitten - by Joyce Png, Alexei Vidal, Yueh Wei Chan

CHS  Teacher:  Steve Willcock

Jesse Abbell

•      Honourable Mention: Carleton University High School Writing Contest 2009 and earning a renewable scholarship to the University of King's College worth $3000/ year.

Rebecca Campagna

•      Scholarship and acceptance for English BA at Carleton University, $2000.00

Becca Johnston

•      Mount Allison university offered an $6000 scholarship over four years, which she will be accepting, and Carleton offered her an $8000 scholarship which she won't be accepting.

Margot Wallace:

•      Received a $12,000 entrance scholarship from Carleton University

Nick Faris

•      Published in the Orleans Star

•      Published on the Ottawa Citizen website (High School Sports section)

Essery Waller

•      Entry Scholarship to University of Western Ontario: $2000

Mallory Tater

•      1000 $ - University of Victoria

•      6000 $ a year from Carleton University

•      5000 $ a year from Trinity Western University

•      Byward Poetry Contest - 2nd Place

•      Awesome Author's Contest - 2 honourable mentions, 2nd place, will be published in "Pot-Pourri Anthology"

Christine Klippenstein

•      Accepted to McGill University for the French Literature program -- offered $3,000. Accepted to Queen's University for general Arts -- offered $8,000. Accepted to the University of Ottawa's Translation program -- offered $16,000.

•      First-place winner of the ThinkInk poetry contest

•      Guest reader at the Ottawa International Writers’ Festival

•      Publication in UnFolding magazine, an online literary magazine

•      Winner of National Novel Writing Month – wrote a sixty-thousand-word novel in twenty-four days (a personal record)

 Juliana Rodger

•      Second place in Carleton's High School Writing Competition (2009) for a script ($100 prize)

•      Script published in The Claremont Review's Spring 2010 issue

•      Offer of $2000 x 4 years entrance scholarship from York University

•      Offer of $2000 x 4 years entrance scholarship from Mount Allison University

•      Offer of $3000 x 4 years entrance scholarship from Carleton University

Emma Gabe

•      University of Ottawa entrance scholarship, $3000.00

Jennifer Lawrence

•      Received free tuition from Trent University

•      Received $12 000 scholarship from Carleton

•      Accepted Trent's offer

Leah MacLean-Evans

•      $12 000 scholarship offer from Ottawa U

•      $12 000 scholarship offer from Carleton

•      Acceptance to each of these universities

Elizabeth Sumitro

•      Scholarship for the University of Toronto - University of Toronto Scholar's Program, $5000.00

 Tasha Oikle

•      Scholarship. Ottawa U $9000 ($3000 per year for 3 years).

•      Honourable mention for poetry in Carleton writing contest 2009

We had 2 groups of students totaling 17 students, staff from our Business (taking the lead - Cheryl Taylor), Science, Communications Technology and support from BLT through Bruce Summers taking part. How is that for connecting the dots in School Improvement opportunities!!!!

We were the sole representatives from Canada.

Last evening we received news from the Chair of International Judging panel in England that Canterbury High School placed 2nd in the international competition after an Australia team and followed by a South African team.

Furthermore, Canterbury has been invited to partake in a follow up global challenged being hosted in Bali, Indonesia (although through the internet!!!) in June.

•      Dance Department hosted two feeder school concerts performing in front of a total of 1000 elementary students from across the OCDSB

•      2010 Dance Night “IMPUSE” performed over two nights was a huge success.  

•      Dance students participated in OCDSB dance showcase at Woodroofe High School

•      Dance students travel to Cornwall to perform in the 2010 Step Into Motion Festival

•      Students will perform for the V.P. Conference/ Lead the Way in May

Swimming

Novice Boys                             NCSSAA City Champions

Novice Girls                              NCSSAA City Champions

Junior Girls                               NCSSAA City Champions

Senior Girls                               NCSSAA City Champions

Boys and Girls Aggregete          NCSSAA City Champions

Grand Aggregete                       NCSSAA City Champions

Nordic Skiing

Rhys Petersen              OFSAA  Participant

Kirsten Petersen            2nd Senior Girls NCSSAA & OFSAA  Participant

Emma Morris                OFSAA  Participant      

Junior Girls Basketball

Tier 2 NCSSAA City Champs

(Note: The last time they won was in 1995...before most of the team was born!)

Junior Girls Volleyball

NCSSAA City Eastern Conference Finalists

Wrestling Team

Liz Davies - NCSSAA Champion - OFSAA participant

Sean Ryan - NCSSAA Champion - OFSAA participant

Chris Galley - NCSSAA Silver; OFSAA 6TH Place

Hockey

The Canterbury Girls Hockey Team reached a milestone this season, celebrating our 10th year. The varsity team brings together players from all grades who love hockey and represent CHS with great hockey and fantastic spirit.

Students in grade 12 Visual Arts / Photography have won the Grand Prize for digital photography in the 3rd Annual Nikon Secondary School Digital Photo Contest (co-sponsored by Henry's Canada).

This contest was open to all students enrolled in Secondary School Photography courses throughout Canada.  Over 1000 entries were submitted.  Canterbury was awarded the top school prize ($500 worth of Nikon equipment) as the school with the most images to make the judges final selection list of 40 entries.

Erika Van der Pas, Anna Cumyn, and Emma Fowler were among the top twelve finalists and will receive prizes for honourable mention. A presentation for the winners was held at the Photographic, Video & Digital Imaging Show in the International Centre, Mississauga on Saturday May 15th, 2010.