Hannah is a leader at Brigadoon Village, one of the largest pediatric medical camps in Canada. She contributed to a charity drive providing warm, knit, and crochet clothing and accessories to vulnerable populations within her community. A certified lifeguard and swim instructor, Hannah also volunteers at her public library’s youth program and is on its Teen Advisory Council, building on her prior engagement in literacy diversity. She is also secretary of her school’s Rotary Club, leading several fundraisers and community initiatives.

A devoted baseball player, Aidan has represented his province at the national level, including events such as the Canada Games, for the past five years. He also started and ran a successful youth baseball camp in his town. Aidan is a treasurer for his school’s student council and a peer tutor. He also participates in fundraisers for organizations such as the RMHC and Tim Hortons Camp Day. Aidan, who has worked in healthcare facilities since the age of 15, is currently employed as a pharmacy assistant, but volunteers at his local hospital in his spare time. He is also a volunteer firefighting cadet.

Jakob runs a property maintenance business called DeGruchy’s Property Solutions. He works a second job part time at a mall. He organizes community clean-ups and is a regular blood donor. Jakob is a member of Catapult PLUS, for alumni of the Catapult Leadership Society, and the leader of a skateboarding group.

Braydon runs social media for Community CARES in Sydney, and Get Active in Kingston, two organizations that help build better communities in Nova Scotia. He also serves as an ambassador for Get Active, volunteering at their active-living events. Braydon co-captained an intramural sports team and is currently a program facilitator for a mental health organization. Additionally, he helped organize a community concert and a dog adoption event in his university town of Kingston.

While studying management and political science (BComm) at McGill University, Kai has volunteered as a Japanese teacher, completed four mandates as a consultant and project manager at Canada’s largest student-run consulting firm, JED Consulting, and led community impact initiatives as the director of JED For the Community. He spent his community development summer working at the Clean Foundation in Nova Scotia, fostering policy engagement and undertaking policy development for clean energy initiatives in the province. Kai is involved with a Montreal-based charity, 60 Million Girls, working to deliver one of the world’s first climate education games to a network of 700,000+ students globally with limited access to high-quality educational content.

Hilus is a member of the Waterloo Engineering Society and the Waterloo Engineering Endowment Fund – a program that provides funding for research and projects. He is an active member of UWAFT, a student design team that works with alternatively fueled vehicles. Hilus spent a winter semester working as a Build Specialist at a Canadian software company, OpenText, where he worked on infrastructure security and app development. Hilus is studying Computer Engineering.

While pursuing their B.Sc. in chemistry and math at McGill University, Julia co-founded and currently leads MycoNurseries, a non-profit focused on sustainably growing edible mushrooms, which has received over $20,000 in funding. Passionate about ending sexual violence, Julia interned with Consent Labs, a charity providing holistic sexual consent education across Australia, and is a peer educator with McGill University’s Office for Sexual Violence Response, Support, and Education. They also wrote an article on their nonbinary identity for CBC and volunteered in the kitchen of the Meals-on-Wheels charity Santropol Roulant.

Averi is a first-year common law student at the University of Ottawa. She is Vice-President of the Association des acadiennes de la région de la capitale nationale. She volunteers with Pro Bono Students Canada and the Ottawa Law Review.

Kayleigh is a Biology-Psychology student at Queen’s University with a passion for understanding the connections between the brain, behaviour, and mental health, specifically in youth. She serves on the Psychology Department Student Council, where she helps represent students’ voices and fosters community within the program. Dedicated to making a positive impact, she also volunteers with multiple campus clubs, including initiatives focused on mentorship, youth empowerment, and mental health advocacy. Through her academic and extracurricular pursuits, she is committed to driving meaningful change and supporting those around her.

Megan is the vice president of Active Minds Western, a mental health advocacy club at Western University. She leads a team of interns and graphic designers to create publications and content that educate students on campus about mental health resources available to them. Megan has also completed an exchange at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark where she continued her medical science studies and coached two youth soccer teams in Danish during her free time.