This year, we received more than 5,000 applications for the Loran Award. Our 400+ volunteers assessed and interviewed 500 students across the country in order to identify the eighty-eight graduating high school and CEGEP students (listed below) invited to attend our national selections in Toronto on February 2 and 3, 2018.
Our rigorous selection process is designed to seek out evidence of character – integrity, courage, grit, compassion and inner-directedness – in young leaders who are committed to serving others. These 88 finalists come from all walks of life, hailing from Canada’s largest cities to its most remote areas. At national selections, our interviewers will select up to 34 Loran Scholars.
Since 1988, the Loran Scholars Foundation has provided more than $31.5 million in undergraduate awards to promising young Canadians on the basis of character, service and leadership potential. The Loran Award is valued at $100,000 over four years, including a $10,000 annual stipend, tuition waivers from any one of our 25 partner universities, mentorship, funding for summer internships, annual retreats and a weeklong orientation expedition in Algonquin Park. Finalists not selected as Loran Scholars are eligible to receive a $5,000 finalist award tenable at any Canadian public university.
2018 Loran Finalists
- Junan Adam-Gordon
Gulf Islands Secondary School
Salt Spring Island, BC - Charlotte Armstrong
Charlottetown Rural High School
Charlottetown, PE - Nika Asgari
Sir Charles Tupper Secondary School
Vancouver, BC - Delanie Austin
Quinte Secondary School
Belleville, ON - Simrin Bajwa
Panorama Ridge Secondary
Surrey, BC - Nick Barclay
UWC Robert Bosch College
Victoria, BC - Billy Barnes
Bonne Bay Academy
Birchy Head, NL - Alexandre Bernard
St. Mary’s High School
Calgary, AB - Mostafa Bondok
Bell High School
Ottawa, ON - Frédérique Boucher-Alain
Cégep Garneau
Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, QC - Rayene Bouzitoun
Collège de Maisonneuve
Montréal, QC - Megan Brunen
Dauphin Regional Comprehensive Secondary School
Laurier, MB - Russell Cabeliza
St. Paul’s High School
Winnipeg, MB - Roisin Cahill
École Secondaire Sainte Marguerite d’Youville
Sherwood Park, AB - Mark Cam
Steveston-London Secondary School
Richmond, BC - Cora Camire
Gudangaay Tlaats’gaa Naay Secondary School
Masset, BC - Morgan Campbell
Pugwash District High School
Wallace, NS - Tara Cashen
Cobequid Educational Centre
Truro, NS - Vladmir Chindea
Upper Canada College
Toronto, ON - Hugh Churchwell
Coffs Harbour High School
Boambee, Australia - Wei Hai (Kelvin) Cui
École Secondaire Hugh McRoberts Secondary School
Richmond, BC - Andrew D’Elia
Cardinal Carter Catholic High School
Richmond Hill, ON - Elektra Dakogiannis
Monarch Park Collegiate Institute
Toronto, ON - Violette Drouin
École acadienne de Truro
Truro, NS - Catherine Dufort-Cusson
Cégep de Lévis-Lauzon
Drummondville, QC - Zane Frantzen
Pretty River Academy
Collingwood, ON - Jenny Fu
Waterdown District High School
Waterdown, ON - Kreztorv Fugaban
Vanier College
Montreal, QC - Katherine Gotovsky
University of Toronto Schools
Thornhill, ON - Isatis Gravel-Leblanc
Cégep de Granby
Saint-Paul-d’Abbotsford, QC - Nicole Green
Olds Junior Senior High School
Sundre, AB - Marylise Habiyambere
Saint John High School
Saint John, NB - Nick Harris
F.J. Brennan Catholic High School
Windsor, ON - Campbell Hart
Cape Breton Highlands Education Centre / Academy
North East Margaree, NS - Saud Haseeb
Moira Secondary School
Belleville, ON - Jay Henley
Holy Heart of Mary High School
St. John’s, NL - Makayla Heslip
Indian Head High School
Indian Head, SK - Ryan Jacques
Strathcona High School
Edmonton, AB - Nerissa Kassis
Kitsilano Secondary School
Vancouver, BC - Aidan Kenny
Newmarket High School
Newmarket, ON - Anna Khouzam
Senator O’Connor College School
Toronto, ON - Georgia Koep-Freifeld
Etobicoke School of the Arts
Toronto, ON - Jeanne Lavallée
Cégep de Sorel-Tracy
Sorel-Tracy, QC - Louis-Philippe Leclair
Collégial du Séminaire de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, QC - Hannah Levit
Gray Academy of Jewish Education
Winnipeg, MB - Annika MacKenzie
St. Francis High School
Calgary, AB - Isabel Magsucang
Vanier Catholic Secondary
Whitehorse, YT - Vivian Mak
Old Scona Academic High School
Edmonton, AB - Lily Malena-Morin
UWC Mostar
Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, QC - Ashley Marshall
Aspengrove School
Lantzville, BC - Zoe McDaniel
Dalbrae Academy
Brook Village, NS - Alexander McDermott
Inuksuk High School
Iqaluit, NU - Zane McLeod
George McDougall High School
Airdrie, AB - John Milkovich
Mayfield Secondary School
Caledon, ON - Julian Miller
Prince of Wales Secondary School
Vancouver, BC - Maitry Mistry
Saint Michael Catholic High School
Niagara Falls, ON - Samantha Morin
Teulon Collegiate Institute
Teulon, MB - Nick Murray
Templeton Secondary School
Vancouver, BC - Le Nguyen
William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute
Markham, ON - Kathryn Nicol
Fellowes High School
Pembroke, ON - Ana Luiza Nicolae
Cégep de Bois-de-Boulogne
Montréal, QC - Liam O’Brien
Baltimore School Complex
Cape Broyle, NL - Natalie Pallisco
St. Thomas of Villanova Catholic High School
Lasalle, ON - Léa Papillon
École secondaire publique De La Salle
Ottawa, ON - Philippe Paquin-Piché
Cégep Champlain – St. Lawrence
Pont-Rouge, QC - Dhruv Patel
Westwood Community High School
Fort McMurray, AB - Jeffrey Peng
Moscrop Secondary School
Burnaby, BC - Chloe Pouteaux
École Gravelbourg School
Gravelbourg, SK - Hannah Pow
Smithers Secondary School
Smithers, BC - Jacob Power
Cawthra Park Secondary School
Mississauga, ON - Lauren Prophet
St. Clement’s School
Toronto, ON - James Quinlan
Woburn Collegiate Institute
Toronto, ON - Mariam Sabbah
École secondaire catholique L’Escale
Clarence-Rockland, ON - Eli Scott
Renfrew Collegiate Institute
Renfrew, ON - Armon Shokravi
Mulgrave School
North Vancouver, BC - Shulie Smolyanitsky
Brantford Collegiate Institute and Vocational School
Brantford, ON - Logan Stack
Marianopolis College
Montreal-West, QC - Catherine Sun
Centennial Collegiate
Saskatoon, SK - Jessica Telizyn
North Peace Secondary School
Fort St. John, BC - Josh Tillson
Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School
Sudbury, ON - Jes Tremblay
J.V. Humphries Secondary School
Meadow Creek, BC - Nico Tripodi
Saint Francis Catholic Secondary School
St. Catharines, ON - Vishwak Turaga
Garth Webb Secondary School
Oakville, ON - Natasha Vatcher
Oromocto High School
Oromocto, NB - Pujita Verma
Glenforest Secondary School
Mississauga, ON - Eden Wondmeneh
David Suzuki Secondary School
Brampton, ON - Rosie Zhao
Queen Elizabeth High School
Calgary, AB - Victoria Zhou
Chippewa Secondary School
North Bay, ON
Media Contacts
Katii Capern, Marketing & Communications Officer
416.646.2120, x233
katii.capern@loranscholar.ca