Amal is a grade 12 student at Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School. She is passionate about reducing elderly suffering and has won awards for coming up with various solutions that she presented at regional and national competitions. Recently, she has received awards from the Thames Valley Science and Engineering Fair, the Sanofi Biogenius Competition and [...]
Sydney Wakelin, 17 years old, attends Oakridge S.S. She has been a member of the Byron Believers for 9 years and recently fulfilled a surgical co-op placement at Victoria Hospital. She also worked as a literary facilitator working one on one with 20 children who struggled to read and she assisted in running community programs [...]
The Women’s Canadian Club, London first established our yearly Emerging Leaders Award for Grade 10 and 11 students in 2015. We are pleased to offer this award to four students whose activities demonstrate leadership in both school and community. The students are chosen by the Civic section of the Student Services Dept. of their respective [...]
Nicholas Busch has completed a Bachelor of Music Honors in Performance degree from Western University while studying with Tina Yanchus and is currently working on his Masters of Music degree specializing in Collaborative Piano with Dr. John Hess. He has been working as a freelance pianist, band director and accompanist in the Windsor-London area for [...]
Dylan Baker is a sports-minded 13 year-old with a big voice. He plays baseball in the summer and is captain of the London Tecumsehs baseball club bantam team. His interest in sports led him to host his own baseball podcast, along with his dad, and he does Facebook broadcasts for the London Majors. In the [...]
Nourhan Ali is a grade 12 student at Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School. She is a 17 year old teenage girl with a passion to have a positive impact on the community around her. Some of her accomplishments include: a positive messages movement at her school, asking for recycling bins on 1481 Limberlost Road and [...]
India and Clark are 16 years old, and have been raising money to send kids from child-headed households to school in Malawi through an organization called “Turn The Tide” …since they were 10 years old! Through spaghetti dinners, bake sales, craft markets and other events, to date they have raised at least $40.000. The funds [...]
Brittany Murphy is a born and raised Londoner who works as the Criminal Justice Peer Mentor at the Youth Justice Centre located within Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU), a youth-serving non-profit organization. Brittany brings with her invaluable lived experience as a former Crown Ward of the Children’s Aid Society of London-Middlesex, as well as a [...]
The Women’s Canadian Club, London first established our yearly Emerging Leaders Award for Grade 10 and 11 students in 2015. We are pleased to offer this award to four students whose activities demonstrate leadership in both school and community. The students are chosen by the Civic section of the Student Services Dept. of their [...]
Maryam Al-SABAWI is a grade 11 student at St Andre Besette Catholic school. She was a friend of Yumnah’s. (Yumnah Afzaal) She is a founder of YCCI - the youth coalition combatting Islamophobia. Maryam and her friends have been busy organizing many different events and projects that are meant to honour their friend Yumnah [...]