Alex Gillis, a Grade 12 student at the Fountain Academy at Sacred Heart in Halifax, has won a $100,000 scholarship from the Loran Scholars Foundation.

Thirty-one Canadian students were given the prestigious award this year, but Gillis was the only Nova Scotia recipient.

Read the CBC News article:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/alex-gillis-loran-scholarship-bitness-1.3473232