Welcome to the MaCS Program, a specialized program at  William Lyon Mackenzie C.I.

 

• Mock Trial Club

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  Mackenzie's Mock Trial Club participated in the most competitive mock trial tournament in the province. The team advanced to the quarter finals! Participants worked very hard all year to prepare for the tournament. Judges of the competition told our students that they would excel in a career in law! A special thank you goes out to our club presidents Celine Kim and Gabby Chan for their leadership and dedication. Great job team!

  

• AP Perfect Score

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  Congratulations to Julia Chen who received a perfect score on her AP Computer Science Exam last year! Julia was one of 193 students in the world to earn a perfect score on the exam!

  

• DECA Internationals

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  Congratulations to those students who competed at the DECA International Competition in Orlando Florida this past week! Mackenzie won 31 medals and one trophy in total! Six students placed in the top 10 Internationally for their respective category!

  

• TDSB History and Civics Contest

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  Grade 10 Mackenzie students participated in the 2019 THHSSSC/TDSB History & Civics Contest this past week! It was the first time Mackenzie participated in this annual event and we had a blast!

  

• ECOO Competition

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  Congratulations to all 3 Mackenzie Computer Programming teams, including our all female team, who have qualified for the ECOO provincial final round in May!

  

• Michael Smith Challenge

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  This past winter grade 10 science students had the opportunity to write the University of British Columbia (UBC) Michael Smith Challenge. Congratulations to all contest writers! Special mention to Alexander Li who placed second in Canada out of over 1200 contest writers!

  

• Culturama

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  This past month, Mackenzie hosted our annual Culturama evening event. It was a great success and a lot of fun! Thank you to all the student volunteers and staff supervisors!

  

• Girls Programming Competition

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  This past month, the Computer Programming club hosted their second annual All Girls Computer Programming Competition. Over 15 schools and 150 students participated in the annual event. Thank you to all the volunteers and to Ms. Krasteva for organizing the event! Congratulations to all the winners!

  

• Envirothon Competition- 1st place!

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  Congratulations to all the students who participated in this year's Envirothon Competition! Students had the opportunity to attend a workshop before the competition as well. Our Envirothon club placed first at the Ontario Envirothon competition this past week. This is a well-deserved achievement as our teams were extremely dedicated and worked really hard over the last few months in preparation for the competition.

  

• Canadian Computing Competition (CCC)

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  Congratulations to three of our students who qualified for the Canadian Computing Olympiad at the University of Waterloo in May. Those selected will have the opportunity to represent Canada in the International Olympiad for Informatics (IOI). Best of luck to Richard Yi, Evan Zhang and Junyi Wang!

  

• HOSA Competition

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  Congratulations to all the students who participated at the HOSA Canada SLC 2019 Competition! Best of luck to the top 10 winners who qualified for internationals!

  

• Math Contests

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  Good luck to all our MaCS students who are writing the upcoming math contests such as the Euclid Contest!

  

• Concours French Speaking Contest

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  Congratulations to 3 MaCS students (Rachel Leong, Lauren Altomare, and Yu Fei Liu) who have won the learning centre level of the Concours and will continue to the board level on Saturday, May 4, 2019, at Glendon College!

  

• March Break Trip 2019

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  During March break, under the direction of Mr. O'Brien, Ms. Lee and Ms. McDowell, 23 students from WL Mackenzie CI traveled to Portugal and Spain. The trip began in Lisbon and continued from there to Evora, Sevilla, Cordoba, Madrid and Toledo. Students experienced the wonders of La Capela dos Ossos, La Mezquita, the Catedral de Sevilla, the Prado and the Palacio Real, among many others!

  

• ECOO Competition

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  Congratulations to our three computer programming teams who competed at the ECOO programming competition this past month. All three teams have advanced to the Regional competition later this year!

  

• Arts Week

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  Last month MaCS students had the opportunity to participate in Dance Night and Java after Dark! Both evening events were well attended and all participants did an amazing job!

  

• Grade 10 MaCS Trip: Canadian Ecology Centre

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  Last month the grade 10 MaCS students had an amazing experience at our annual three day grade 10 MaCS overnight trip to the Canadian Ecology Centre!

  

• MSEO

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  Congratulations to all the middle schools who participated in the 13th annual Mackenzie Middle School Science and Engineering Olympiad! Thank you to all the staff and student volunteers for making this event so successful! (https://sites.google.com/site/macolympics/)

  

• DECA 2019

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  Congratulations to all DECA students who participated at the DECA Provincial Championships this past month! Over 70 medals, and 26 overall finalists! Good luck to the 19 students who qualified for international competition this spring in Florida!

  

• SHAD Summer 2019

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  Congratulations to 4 of our MaCS students who were selected for the SHAD Valley Summer University Enrichment Program! Six other students are currently on the waitlist, which could bring the total number of students up to 10 to participate in this amazing University Enrichment Experience!

  

• Grammy Award Nomination

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  Isaac Rosenberg (Grade 10 MaCS) has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album as one of the vocalists on Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II. Good luck next month at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles! (https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/isaac-rosenberg)

  

• Spirit Week

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  Student Council held their annual Spirit Week before Winter break! The theme for Monday was Pajama Day where students built gingerbread houses, played board games (twister & monopoly) or watched a movie in the library at lunch. Tuesday's theme was Tropical Tuesday where students enjoyed free pizza and freezies! Wednesday's theme was Wacky Wednesday where during lunch, students participated in minute to win it or holiday kahoot games! Thursday's theme was Ugly Sweater Day where during lunch, there were teacher vs. student competitions. Thank you to Student Council and staff for organizing an amazing Spirit Week before the Winter Break!

  

• Moose Competition

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  In keeping with the holiday tradition, the Mackenzie Computer Programming Senior Team in collaboration with Reyno Tilikaynen (MaCS alumni) prepared and administered a practice programming contest for schools in the TDSB and the Southern Ontario region. More than 100 teams signed up and successfully participated in this challenging annual event!

  

• MaCS Alumni Visit

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  Thank you to Reyno Tilikaynen (MaCS Alumni) for visiting our computer MaCS classes this month to talk to students about his post-secondary program and career choice. Reyno will be graduating from the University of Waterloo this month and will start his full time job at Google in January!

  

• TDSB Just Read It!

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  Congratulations to Megan Holmes (Grade 10 MaCS) for receiving a book prize in honour of her submission page for the book "Feast of Roses"!

  

• Arts Week

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  This month, the Art department held its annual Arts week with dance performances on Monday followed by a drama play on Tuesday. Wednesday night, the school band performed their annual Sounds of the Season concert and on Thursday the visual art department displayed their art work in an Arts Battle competition!

  

• English Speech Contest

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  This past week, the English department hosted their annual semester Speech Contest. Congratulations to all our participants and winners this semester!

  

• Inside Ride

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  The Physical Education department held their annual Inside Ride Challenge and raised money in support of children with cancer and their families. Thank you to all the student and staff volunteers who helped make this event a huge success!

  

• Cyber Security Competition

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  Congratulations to all students who participated in the next round of the Cyber Security Competition this past weekend. One of our teams is currently third internationally and second in Canada (out of 1657 teams). The senior girls team placed in the top 20% (and 25th in Canada) and the junior girls team placed in the top half overall internationally. This competition is a great opportunity for learning and skill development as it requires students to learn how to solve problems they are presented with during various security challenges.

  

• Academic and Citizenship Awards and Math Contests

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  Congratulations to our grade 10, 11, and 12 students who were awarded an academic or citizenship certificate at our annual assembly last Friday! We also want to congratulate all those students who participated in the CSMC and CIMC Math contests last week as well!

  

• Staff vs. Students Volleyball Game

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  Thank you to the staff and students who participated in the annual staff versus students volleyball game! It was a close game with the students winning once again! We look forward to the next Teacher vs. Student competition!

  

• DECA

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  Congratulations to all the business students who participated last week at the DECA Regional Finals. Mackenzie earned 81 Ribbons and 44 medals! Good luck to the 59 competitors who advanced to the Provincial Championships in February!

  

• Cyber Security Competition

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  Congratulations to the three Mackenzie teams who competed in an international Cyber Security Competition with over 6000 other schools worldwide. One of Mackenzie's teams placed 2nd in Canada and 30th in the world. Our two other teams placed 45th and 52nd in Canada. http://www.uscyberpatriot.org/Pages/About/What-is-CyberPatriot.aspx

  

• Mactoberfest and School Dance

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  This past month Mackenzie hosted their annual Halloween themed Mactoberfest and School dance. Thank you to all the staff and student council members for organizing these amazing events!

  

• Remembrance Day Assembly

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  On Friday November 9th Mackenzie held a school wide Remembrance Day Assembly. Thank you to all the staff and students who participated and organized this very important assembly.

  

• MaCS Test

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  Thank you to everyone who wrote the MaCS Entrance Test last week. We had over 700 applicants! Special thank you to all the staff and student volunteers!

  

• MaCS Information Night

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  Thank you to everyone who attended the MaCS Information Night this week. We had over 1100 guests in our school gym and cafetorium who wanted to learn more about the MaCS Program! Thank you to all the staff and students who volunteered for the event!

  

• University Fair and Scholarship Workshop

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  This past week Student Services hosted our annual University Fair and Scholarship workshop presentation for our graduating students!

  

• Grade 9 MaCS Trip

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  This past week our Grade 9 MaCS students went for three days to Muskoka Woods for our annual three day Leadership Trip!

  

• MaCS Alumni

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  Thank you to Ms. Mailvaganam for organizing an afternoon event with MaCS Alumni this month!

  

• OFSAA

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  Congratulations to Hannah Kim for qualifying for OFSAA for Golf!

  

• Club Crawl

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  Last week was our annual Club Crawl for grade 9 and 10 students. Thank you to the over 60 clubs for participating in this amazing event!

  

• Terry Fox Run

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  Last month all Mackenzie students participated in the Terry Fox Run. Congratulations to Mackenzie for reaching our fundraising goal!

  

• Grade 9 Curriculum Night

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  Thank you to everyone who attended our grade 9 Curriculum Night this week. This was a great opportunity for parent(s)/guardian(s) to meet their child's teacher and learn about the curriculum in each of their child's classes.

  

• Grade 9 Orientation Day

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  This past week all grade 9 students participated in our annual Grade 9 day at Adventure Valley Outdoor Education Centre! Thank you to all our staff volunteers and student leaders for organizing an amazing day that focused on building community!

  

• MaCS Graduation

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  Congratulations to our grade 12 MaCS students who celebrated their graduation from the program this past week with a ceremony and reception! Celebrations will continue at our school-wide commencement at the end of the month!

  

• University of Western Science Olympics

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  Congratulations to all participants at the University of Western Science Olympics! Special congratulations to one of our grade 9 teams for placing third in the Circuits event and to two of our grade 11 teams for placing third in the Robot event and first in the Bridge building event!

  

• Avogadro and Chem 13 Chemistry Contests

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  Congratulations to all participants in this year's chemistry contests from the University of Waterloo! Special congratulations to Andy Cai (Grade 9 MaCS student) who placed third in the world out of 4,372 participants! Four students also placed in the 80th percentile in the Avagadro contest. The CHEM 13 contest had two students place in the 90th percentile!

  

• Grade 8 MaCS Student Orientation

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  Last week, we had the opportunity to welcome our incoming grade 9 MaCS students at our annual grade 8 MaCS student orientation! Students took part in various activities including a tour, a club crawl, and a BBQ. Students were able to talk to senior MaCS students about their experience in the program as well as meet other incoming MaCS students. We look forward to welcoming our new grade 9 MaCS students in September!

  

• Languages/Grade 11 Trip

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  This past month the Languages department had their Quebec trip to Montreal! Students had the opportunity to visit the McGill campus as part of the trip!

  

• Grade 12 MaCS Trip

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  This past week was the annual Grade 12 MaCS Trip dinner and show! Students had the opportunity to have dinner at Quinn's Steakhouse and then see the musical Annie at the Ed Mirvish Theatre!

  

• U of T Chemistry Essay Competition

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  Grade 11 Chemistry MaCS students recently competed in the University of Toronto Chemistry Department "Ask a Laureate" Essay competition. Students had to write a concise 500-600 word essay on one of four topics. Of the 10 students that represented Mackenzie, there were 2 honourable mentions, 3 third places, and 1 first place! Congratulations to all participants!

  

• NEURObrite research initiative at Baycrest

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  Last month, twenty-four grade 10 and 11 MaCS students had the opportunity to take part in an extracurricular initiative involving an introduction to the brain and the NeuroBRITE Initiative. The NeuroBRITE initiative seeks to partner high school students with mentors from Baycrest Health Sciences Centre in a hands-on neuroscience research project which will span the next 5 school months (going into the 2018/2019 school year), during which students will have access to state-of-the-art EEG technology to complete their research. Student findings will be presented in a culminating showcase at Baycrest in late 2018!

  

• University of Guelph Science Olympics

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  This week, students had the opportunity to compete at the University of Guelph Science Olympics. There were three first place event team winners and one overall first place team competition winner! Thank you to all staff and students who participated in the events!

  

• Culturama

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  Last month, Mackenzie held the school's annual Culturama Night. The variety of performances and delicious food made the evening a true cultural celebration of our community!

  

• Envirothon

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  Congratulations to all the students who participated in the science Envirothon competition last month! One team received 2nd place overall at the regional finals and a first place finish in the aquatics category. Another team achieved first place in the forestry section.

  

• Dance Team

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  This month, the Dance Team competed at the TDSB Creates jury event and have advanced to the final showcase at the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts next month!

  

• TDSB Creates

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  Congratulations to the following students who will have their work exhibited at the board wide gallery exhibit for TDSBCreates! “Decidentes ex Somnium” (“Falling from a Dream”) – Lily Fishman, Maya Weir “Love and Loss” – Sienna Park, Melanie Yu “Twitter Problems” – Erfan Yaganehfar

  

• Sick Kids Hospital Science Extravaganza Trip

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  This past week, students were able to attend the annual Sick Kids Science Extravaganza event! Students listened to a very interesting presentation about memory and learning followed by two great lab tours in the afternoon.

  

• DECA

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  Congratulations to all the MaCS students who attended DECA Internationals in Atlanta last week! There were 11 finalists and 6 top ten winners for a total of 25 medals!

  

• Programming Competition

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  On April 17, the Computer Programming Team hosted the Second Annual Girls Invitational, where females across Toronto have the opportunity to compete against one another. Mackenzie CPT shared their love of competition, coding, and teamwork in this special event.

  

• Harvard University

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  Congratulations to Sarah Goldfarb (Grade 12 MaCS) who received an offer from Harvard University this past week!

  

• HOSA Conference

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  Congratulations to HOSA this past week where 80 students competed at the annual HOSA Conference! Mackenzie students placed superbly with two firsts, one second, and one third! Those students who placed have qualified for the International competition in Dallas Texas at the end of June!

  

• ECOO Programming Contest

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  Congratulations to two Mackenzie MaCS teams who advanced to the regional round of the ECOO Computer Programming Contest in April! Team: Arsh Raza, Richard Yi, Jeffrey Gao, Jiayue Wu Team: Jaclyn Woon, Yuan Yang, Sarah Goldfarb, Hannah Zhu

  

• Waterloo Computing Competition

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  Congratulations to Richard Yi (MaCS) and Evan Zhang (MaCS) who were invited to compete in the Canadian Computing Olympiad as one of the top twenty - thirty students at the University of Waterloo on May 14-18, 2018!

  

• Ministry Student Advisory Council

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  Congratulations to Gabby Chan for being selected to be part of the 2018-2019 Minister's Student Advisory Council (MSAC)!

  

• Canadian History Award

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  Congratulations to Andy Pham (Grade 10 MaCS), for winning a Government of Canada History Award!(http://gcawards.canadashistory.ca/History-Awards/High-School-Awards/Winning-Essays/Andy-Pham)

  

• French Public Speaking Contest

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  This past week, 4 MaCS students competed in the TDSB French Public Speaking Contest at the school board level. Congratulations to Lev Raizman and Maria Yampolsky who both advanced to the Provincial level in May!

  

• Toshiba ExploraVision Competition

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  Congratulations to three of the grade 10 MaCS project teams for receiving honorary mentions and for one of the grade 10 MaCS project teams for being chosen to be one of the regional winners! The regional team is now competing for nationals in June!

  

• DECA

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  Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's Provincial DECA Championships. We have 15 students moving on to the International Competition in Atlanta! At the Provincial competition last week, we won 16 plaques and 73 ribbons!

  

• Grade 10 MaCS Trip

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  This past week grade 10 MaCS students spent three days at the Canadian Ecology Centre! It was a great way for the students to have a winter ecology experience!

  

• MSEO

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  This past week our science club hosted their 12th annual middle school grade 7 and 8 Science and Engineering Olympiad. Congratulations to all the middle school participants as well as our student volunteers and staff who organized another amazing event for the school!

  

• Virginia Tech Soccer Team

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  Congratulations to Nicole Kozlova (Grade 12 MaCS) who officially accepted an offer to Virginia Tech University and will be playing for the Virginia Tech Hokies NCAA Women's Soccer Team next year!

  

• SHAD

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  Congratulations to all our MaCS students who applied this year to the SHAD Valley Summer Enrichment Program. Four students have been given offers for SHAD 2018! This is a great accomplishment, given how competitive this year’s application process was at SHAD.

  

• Journalist Sandra Martin

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  Journalist Sandra Martin spoke to grade 11 and 12 English classes last month to help them prepare for their culminating activities. Sandra has a lot of experience in the media industry and currently works for WE (formerly Free the Children). She spoke to our grade 12 students about how to create successful campaigns. She spoke to the grade 11 students about interviewing skills. Sandra led students through examples of both good and bad interviews and discussed with students how they could fix the poor interview. All in all, students took away valuable lessons from an expert in media.

  

• Charter Challenge Champions

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  Congratulations to Mackenzie’s Mock Trial Club (Celine Kim, Beatrice Han, Gabby Chan and Mehak Shah) for an amazing Charter Challenge victory in the Ontario Justice Education Network’s Charter Challenge. The Ontario Court of Appeal Panel found 2-1 in favour of the appellants (William Lyon Mackenzie C.I). We are looking forward to the spring challenge!

  

• “Bay Street Deconstructed”

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  On December 8th, the Grade 10 Business classes spent the morning discovering more about the financial world as the Business Department hosted the “Bay Street Deconstructed” Program. The main objective of the program is to raise Financial Literacy and career awareness about the variety of Financial Service Areas available to students.

  

• Inside Ride

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  Congratulations to all teachers and students who participated and/or supported last week’s Inside Ride. The Inside Ride presented by the Coast to Coast Against Cancer Foundation is Canada’s first indoor cycling challenge and fundraising event dedicated to raising money in support of children with cancer and their families. Teams of students and teachers cycled to raise over $9000!

  

• Cabaret (A Night of Musical Theatre)

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  Congratulations to the Music, Drama, and Dance departments as well as the over 80 students involved (actors, singers, dancers, musicians, costume and set designers, tech and crew members) for an outstanding performance this week!

  

• Charter Challenge Finalists 2017

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  Congratulations to Gabby Chan, Beatrice Han, Celine Kim, and Mehak Shah (Grade 11 MaCS Students) for advancing to the Charter Challenge Finals out of 500 students who participated. Later this month they will have the opportunity to compete before a panel of Ontario judges. The competition was organized by the OJEN (Ontario Justice Education Network), Osgood Hall Law School and the Court of Appeal for Ontario (www.ojen.ca).

  

• Economic Club of Canada (Guest Speaker: Michelle Obama)

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  Last month, a few students had the opportunity to attend a conference hosted by the Economic Club of Canada with Michelle Obama as the guest speaker. The CPA (Chartered Professional Accountants) of Ontario invited and sponsored the students.

  

• McMaster University Engineering Workshops

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  McMaster University provided Engineering Workshops to our grade 9 and 10 MaCS students last month. Some students had to build a Canadarm-simulating device to move solar panels from one end of the table to another (Space Exploration strand) or build a wind tower to simulate clean energy (Climate Change strand). Students were engaged and the workshops were well run!

  

• DECA Competition

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  Congratulations to the MaCS students who competed at the DECA Business Regional Championship earlier this month. Mackenzie took home 70 ribbons and 19 medals in this business competition!

  

• University of Toronto Guest Speaker

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  This past week MaCS biology students had an opportunity to listen to Dr. Gary Levy, who is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Toronto. His research has focused on immune-mediated mechanisms of organ injury due to viruses, alloantigens, and xenoantigens. Thank you to Ms. Batras for organizing the event.

  

• MaCS Test Day

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  Last week approximately 700 grade 8/9 applicants wrote the MaCS Entrance Test. Notification letters will be mailed the week of January 22nd, 2018.

  

• Baycrest Hospital - Ideation Workshops at Baycrest and at Mackenzie

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  MaCS students had the opportunity to participate in Ideation Interactive Workshops. These workshops were organized by the scientists at Baycrest Hospital on the brain and human memory.

  

• Math Contests

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  Math Contests have started. Good luck to all of our MaCS participants!

  

• Regenerative Medicine - The Next Frontier Symposium

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  MaCs students recently had the opportunity to hear about and experience hands-on, cutting edge stem-cell research from world-renowned leaders in the field. They embarked on a journey from bench to patient bedside, exploring career paths and meeting scientists, venture capitalists, clinicians, biotechnology experts, and government regulators working in the field.

  

• MaCS Information Night

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  Last week over 1200 people attended our MaCS Information Night to learn more about the program and the application process. Thank you to all those who attended and volunteered their time for the evening!

  

• Mactoberfest

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  This past week students and staff participated in our annual lunchtime Mactoberfest with amazing costumes and activities during an extended lunch!

  

• Grade 9 MaCS Trip

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  This week grade 9 MaCS students went to Muskoka Woods for a three day leadership and team building trip! Students had a great experience and an opportunity to get to know everyone in the program!

  

• Grade 9 Club Crawl

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  Last week students had the opportunity to attend the annual club crawl at Mackenzie! Over 50 clubs were in attendance and students were able to sign-up and learn more about the clubs available at Mackenzie!

  

• Business World Championship

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  Congratulations to the MaCS team of Michal Moshkovich, Jessica Peter, Rikard Saqe, Cyrus Gandevia, and Natalie Kaufman who competed with their company "SpitStrips". This August the team traveled to the Ukraine for the SAGE International Business Worldcup Championship (http://www.citynews.ca/video/2017/07/24/video-high-school-students-create-impairment-spit-test/)! The team placed 2nd in the world with their venture! They also won a United Nations Gold Medal for their venture!

  

• Grade 9 Day

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  This past Friday Mackenzie hosted their annual grade 9 Orientation day! It was a great opportunity for grade 9 students to learn more about Mackenzie, meet the Student Council, and find out about all the extra-curricular clubs/activities/sport teams available to students.

  

 

With over 350 students, a good portion of the student population at Mackenzie is part of this program. This program is one of a kind, giving students many opportunities both academically and non-academically. Please feel free to take the time to search the site and learn about the many possibilities that are waiting for you. For a start, look at our Gallery Page for pictures and descriptions of a variety of activities/events our students take part in.

If you are interested in being a part of this elite program, please go to the Application Page for more information.

For present students, please go forward to the Current Events Page.

Thank you and I hope you enjoy your experience.

 

S. Leder

MaCS Coordinator
W.L. Mackenzie C.I.