Competitions

Students have multiple opportunities to participate in various Science Competitions and Programs

SHAD - www.shad.ca/

Many students successfully apply and are accepted to SHAD Canada. SHAD Canada is an annual Canadian summer enrichment program for high-achieving high school students in July. The program is open to both Canadian and international students. The program is offered at 19 participating universities across Canada.

Waterloo (Chemistry and Physics) Cawthra Science students participate in numerous competitions and we have a number of students that have placed in the top %ile or have won various awards. For example, every year our students participate in the Grade 11 Avogadro and Grade 12 Chem13 Contests. Maggie Wang placed in the 97th Percentile Canadawide - Chem 13(2019) and Avogadro (2018).

UofT(Biology) Furthermore, our students participate in the National Biology Competition hosted by the University of Toronto. Multiple students place in top 25% and we had a graduate who placed #26 among over 3000 competitors.

Post-Secondary Many of our science students continue to study sciences in post-secondary institutions and gain acceptance to engineering and magnet science programs at McMaster, Western, Waterloo, U of T, Guelph and York Universities just to name a few.