Moriah is the co-president of her school’s student council and co-captain of her varsity volleyball team. She works as inclusion support for children with disabilities, and volunteers weekly as a Sunday school teacher. Moriah organizes activities for the Nova Scotia International Student program and collaborated with a team to facilitate a Black youth-led conference.

Anna leads a team that organizes student-led leadership conferences in Halifax. A former member of the Nova Scotia Youth Climate Council, she also heads her high school’s environment club and serves on the student council. Anna organized a youth climate seminar and helped design an Indigenous student space at her school.

Bazyl is the founder of his school’s Dungeons and Dragons Club and tutoring support program. He is the grad chair and head of several school committees and clubs, and plays a key role in the school and jazz band groups. Bazyl is on various sports teams, including the unified basketball team, and he works part-time as a line cook.

Ella leads her school’s mental health club, serves as mental health chair on student council, and represents her school on the regional student advisory committee. In her community, Ella organizes recreational activities at a retirement home, oversees a positivity program she established for local seniors, and visits long-term care patients. She also volunteers with Girl Guides and serves as a junior leader and member of Terranaut Club, which offers STEM programming for Girls+.

Hannah is pursuing a B.Sc. in microbiology and immunology. She serves as the marketing executive of Dalhousie’s knitting club, coordinating and promoting community fundraisers. She is also an executive member of an accessibility-focused program that supports children by providing adaptive physical activity and meaningful connections. Hannah loves working with kids through inclusive recreation and in-hospital programs. She also enjoys spending time in nature hiking or learning about ocean creatures.

As a motivated and competitive baseball player, Aidan is a pitcher for the McMaster men’s baseball team, as well as for minor league team Hamilton Cardinals, an IBL affiliate. Outside of his athletic and academic pursuits, he works as a chiropractic assistant alongside a dedicated healthcare team to help patients with a variety of conditions using medical laser therapy. Additionally, Aidan is a rehabilitation facilitator with a non-profit called Head Injury Rehabilitation Ontario, where he assists clients living with acquired brain injuries.

Jakob is enrolled in the Bachelors of Science in Nursing Program at McMaster University. He runs a maintenance business called DeGruchy’s Property Solutions, as well as a student food drive called Feed it Forward. Jakob’s passion for healthcare has led him to become an active blood donor, as well as a research participant in mental health studies. He is an alumni of the Catapult Leadership Society and a founding member of his hometown skateboarding group.

Braydon is pursuing a BScH at Queen’s University, specializing in computing mathematics and analytics. He has contributed to community initiatives by developing a web application for a youth outreach organization, streamlining internal communications to better serve local programs. At Queen’s, Braydon leads the behaviour planning subgroup of an autonomous vehicle-design team, and collaborates on data analytics projects through a campus association. He has also held leadership roles as a co-captain of an intramural athletics team and as a brand ambassador promoting student engagement. Passionate about leveraging machine learning and data analysis for social impact, Braydon is dedicated to building inclusive, technology-driven solutions.

Kai is enrolled in the BA program at McGill University, majoring in political science with minor concentrations in economics and management. Throughout his studies, 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 driven community-impact initiatives as the director of JED For the Community. His passion for environmentalism has led to his work in clean energy policy development at the Clean Foundation and the Government of Nova Scotia, as well as his role as sustainability commissioner at the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU). 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 global network of 700,000+ students with limited access to high quality educational content.

Hilus is pursuing a B.Sc. in computer engineering at the University of Waterloo. He has served as vice president of finance for the Waterloo Engineering Society and is an undergraduate lead of the powertrain and controls sub-team of the University of Waterloo Alternative Fuels team, which competes in the advanced vehicle technology competition EcoCAR challenge to re-engineer an electric vehicle. Hilus has gained diverse experience through co-op positions in the tech industry, specializing in software development, consulting, and product management.