Sullivan is the president of his school’s student council and chairs the parent council meetings. He also works with a school group that aims to prevent youth from engaging in tobacco products and was featured on a Canadian physical and health education podcast discussing youth vaping. Sullivan belongs to the alliance for LGBTQ+ students and has been named captain of several sports teams. He is a dedicated volunteer within his religion and community, participating in seniors’ meal delivery, hospital fundraisers and caring cupboards. He works part time in healthcare and has worked as a beach lifeguard during the summer.
Mark is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Waterloo. He is part of Formula Nano’s student design team, developing a scanning tunneling microscope. Mark works as an applications engineering intern at Mosaic Manufacturing in Toronto, advancing new uses for automated 3D printing. Backed by Velocity Incubator’s Up Start program, Mark is also developing biomedical imaging systems.
Isaac is enrolled in a bachelor of science at Dalhousie University, where he is researching the development of multi-layered tumour models using ATPS bioprinting and optimized extracellular matrix components. He also applies machine learning to analyze these tumour structures. As a student researcher at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto during his 2025 Loran summer, Isaac worked to stabilize the prefusion conformation of Epstein-Barr Virus glycoprotein B to support the development of optimized immunogens for vaccines and therapeutics. He is also the founder of an organization that developed rehabilitation technology and assistive educational software for students with cortical visual impairments and motor neuron diseases.
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