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

 

• MaCS Graduation Class of 2020

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  Congratulations to the MaCS Class of 2020! Best of luck in September in the next phase of your educational journey in your post-secondary program!

  

• Canadian National Cyber Security Finals

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  Congratulations to all students who competed online at the Canadian National Cyber Security Finals! (https://www.cybertitan.ca). One team placed 3rd- (https://www.toronto.com/news-story/10021105-cybertitan-competition-educates-youth-in-cybersecurity/). Mackenzie's second team also placed in the top 8 in Canada!

  

• Michael Smith Challenge and The Canadian Chemistry Competition

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  Congratulations to all grade 10 MaCS students two participated in the UBC Michael Smith Challenge this past February. Placing in the top 10% were Aryan Gandevia, Justin Zhu, Jennifer Peter, Kya Ramdhan, Justin Shakergayen, and Matthew Schultz. Placing in the top 3% were Matthew Li, Celeste Luo, and Justin Lu and placing in the top 1% was Kenneth Ruan! Congratulations also goes out to Andy Cai who received a high grade and was invited to write the Canadian Chemistry Olympiad last week. Good luck!

  

• HOSA

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  Congratulations to those students who participated in HOSA's virtual Spring Leadership Conference. 5 MaCS students placed in the top 10: Kyubin Kim 3rd - Dental Science, Oscar Han 3rd- Epidemiology, Rachel Leong 4th - Human Growth and Development, Jimmie So 5th - Human Growth and Development, and Aidan Ang 8th - Sports Medicine!

  

• Math Contests (Pascal, Calyley Fermat, CSMC/CIMC Contests)

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  On February 25th 180 Mackenzie students wrote the Pascal, Cayley, Fermat, CSMC/CIMC contests organized by the University of Waterloo, Faculty of Mathematics. Congratulations to all participants! Pascal: ranked 3rd in Canada, 3rd in Ontario and 1st in North York. Cayley: ranked 5th in Canada, 5th in Ontario and 2nd in North York. Fermat: ranked 16th in Canada, 9th in Ontario and 1st in North York. Overall: 52 grade 9 students , 22 grade 10 students and 42 grade 11 students received Certificates of Distinction for their ranking in the top 25 percentile of the contestants! Team CIMC: ranked 5th in Canada, 5th in Ontario, and 1st North York Team CSMC: ranked 4th in Canada, 4th in Ontario, 1st North York (Overall 38 senior math students and 33 junior math students received Certificates of Distinction for ranking in the top 25 percentile of the contestants.)

  

• MaCS Dance Team

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  Congratulations to the Mackenzie Dance Team and Ms. Peters who wowed the judges at the tdsbCREATES audition. They even received a standing ovation! Unfortunately, the final show has been cancelled, but that hasn't stopped the team's positive attitude. They are already looking forward to next year, and are excited to work with more talented and passionate dancers from our community!

  

• Exploravision

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  Congratulations to three of our grade 10 MaCS students Nicole Han, Roseanna Liang, and Rachel Leong who are the regional winners in the ExploraVision competition with their project on "Implanting Artificial Neurons in Neural Circuits to Control Essential Tremor". They are now advancing to the National Competition! The region in which the students won includes the entire Canada as well as these states: Iowa, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, South Dakota and North Dakota (https://www.exploravision.org/regional-winners). We also have 4 honourable mentions teams (11 students) in grade 10: Carbon Dioxide Sink (Swetlana Kumar, Zineb Bakhouche, Nicole Boedrenok), Modernizing Catalytic Converters (Diana Tatar, Justin Schwartz), Quantum Cryptography (Quentin Fan-Chiang, Ethan Rabinowitz, Varun Chauhan), and Syngas Technology (Crystal Luc, Diana Lin, Celeste Luo).

  

• ECOO Competition

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  Congratulations to Evan Zhang, Junyi Wang, and Steven Guikal for hosting the first online ECOO programming competition on May 2nd. The participation of almost 600 Ontario students from over 100 schools was made possible by these three students who set up the web site and online judge (ecoo.mcpt.ca) thus making an online version of a competition normally held in person possible! Congratulations to Christopher Trevisan who came in second in Ontario as a competitor and to Ben Zeng who came in 13th. The problems were created by Reyno Tilikainen, also a MaCS Mackenzie alumni currently working at Google. The ECOO organizers who are grateful to have had the help of our students will be publishing their names on their site (https://ecoocs.org/).

  

• Gardening Club

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  Congratulations to the Gardening club who received a $6000 grant from the TD Friends of the Environment! The grant will be used towards the natural beautification of Mackenzie!

  

• Spirit Week

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  Thank you to Student Council for hosting Spirit Week online this year! The TikTok challenges for the week included Monday Madness, TFC Tuesday, Wednesday Workout, Throwback Thursday and Freestyle Friday! Thank you to Ms. Mancini and the Student Council!

  

• Grade 11 MaCS News

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  Congratulations to Seyone Chithrananda (grade 11 MaCS) as his research project was selected for a $15,000 grant from Emergent Ventures and The Thiel Foundation ! As part of that grant, he is collaborating with a couple of researchers to build machine learning models to screen for promising small molecule drugs which can repurpose as antivirals for COVID-19!

  

• Yale and Columbia Summer Programs

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  Congratulations to Isaac Rosenberg (Grade 11 MaCS student and 2019 Grammy Nominee) for being accepted into the Yale Summer Program! Congratulations to Celeste Luo (Grade 10 MaCS student) for being accepted into the Columbia Summer Program!

  

• Canadian Computing Olympiad (CCO)

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  Congratulations to all students who participated in the Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) back in February. Five students were selected and qualified for the Canadian Computing Olympiad (CCO) in May with a chance to represent Canada at the International Computing Olympiad!

  

• Exploravision Contest

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  Exploravision is a U.S. and Canada wide competition for students with a strong emphasis on STEM and real world problem solving (exploravision.org). Congratulations to all our honorable mention winners and regional team winner! Our regional team winner was the only Canadian team to advance to the regional finals in the grade 10-12 category!

  

• French Competition

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  The French Public Speaking competition started in December and three students have advanced to the school board level! Good luck to our winners at the next competition!

  

• Grade 10 MaCS Trip

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  This month grade 10 MaCS students went on the annual trip to the Canadian Ecology Centre for a winter ecology experience!

  

• Business Deca Competition

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  Congratulations to all the MaCS students who participated this past month at the Business DECA Provincial Competition! The team won a total of 69 medals and 17 finalist plaques while 19 students qualified for Internationals in Nashville in late April for the International Competition! Good luck!

  

• Computer Contest

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  Congratulations to the MaCS students on the Computer Programming Team! Two of our Cyber Security teams have qualified for the Canadian National Finals in Ottawa May 3 to May 6. Only 8 Canadian teams make it to the finals with only 4 in total from Eastern Canada and 2 of them are from Mackenzie- Great Job!

  

• SHAD Summer Program

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  This summer between 8-17 students in grades 10 and 11 MaCS will experience one month at any Canadian University in July through the SHAD Valley Summer Enrichment Program (shad.ca)! Congratulations to all the students who were selected to participate in this amazing summer enrichment program!

  

• Cyber Patriot Computer Competition

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  Congratulations to Ms. Krasteva and her Computer Programming Team for placing first at the CyberPatriot Competition this past month. The event was sponsored by EA Sports and Bloom Digital!

  

• Math Competition Results

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  Congratulations to all our students who participated in the semester 1 math contests! We had 43 students receive the Performance with Distinction Award and 35 students received the Performance with Honours Award. Congratulations also goes out to Yi Deng, Edward Lee and Om Patel who wrote the Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge and qualified to write the test for the International Math Olympiad. As well, Bernie Chen in grade 9 received the Ontario Silver Award and the Toronto Gold Award. There will be more math contests in semester 2 for interested students!

  

• Inside Ride

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  Thank you to Emily Markowitz and all the student volunteers for organizing and coordinating a successful Inside Ride! We raised over $14000 to help support children with cancer and their families. Well done Mackenzie!

  

• Computer Competition/Math Contests

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  Congratulations to our MaCS students who won first place at the CANHACK Cybersecurity competition. We were presented with a trophy and two cheques for $3000 (one cheque for the school and one cheque for the team)! Congratulations to our math contest writers for placing first in our zone and top 5 in Ontario at the Canadian Intermediate and Senior Math Contests!

  

• SAC Spirit Week 2019

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  Thank you to Student Council for an amazing Spirit week before the Winter break- Monday Breakfast and PJ Day, Trendy Tuesday's lunch competition, Wednesday's MAC Appreciation Day Lip Dub video, Tropical Thursday Lunch, and Friday's morning hot chocolate!

  

• Sounds of the Season Concert/Musical Performance

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  Congratulations to our music students for an amazing Sounds of the Season Performance this past month! This past month the Art department also performed the musical "The Audition". The musical production was both student written and student directed. Thank you to all performers for a great performance!

  

• DECA

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  Congratulations to all DECA students for a stellar performance at the first DECA competition of the school year! 71 students moved on to Provincials. Mackenzie students received 82 ribbons, 9 first place category winners, 28 top 3 category winners and 55 top 10 category winners! Well done Mackenzie!

  

• MaCS Test Day

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  Thank you to all 700+ applicants in grade 8 and 9 who wrote the MaCS entrance test and submitted their application last week. Notification letters will be mailed the week of February 3rd.

  

• Mactoberfest

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  This past month student, council hosted our annual Mactoberfest! Thank you to all the staff and students who organized the events, food, and costume competitions.

  

• Grade 9 MaCS Trip

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  This past month, all grade 9 MaCS students had an amazing three-day trip at Muskoka Woods!

  

• MaCS Information Night

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  This past week was our MaCS Information Night for grade 8 students. It was standing room only in both our large gym and cafeteria with a record number in attendance (approximately 1600 people!). Thank you to all the staff and student volunteers for participating at the information night.

  

• Club Crawl/Terry Fox Run

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  Thank you to all the volunteers and organizers for an amazing Terry Fox Run and Club Crawl this past week! Students demonstrated great school spirit at both of these annual events!

  

• Grade 9 Day/Grade 12 Post-Secondary Panel

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  Last month our grade 9 students went to Adventure Valley for our annual grade 9 Leadership Day! Around the same time our grade 12 students attended our post-secondary panel at Mackenzie as they begin their research phase of the application process!

  

• Cyber Security Competition

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  Congratulations to the Mackenzie team for placing 1st in Canada and 5th globally at a Cyber Security Competition organized by Ryerson University and Carnegie Mellon University!

  

• MaCS Alumni News

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  Congratulations to MaCS alumni Nicole Kozlova for being named the ACC Offensive Player of the week this past month! Nicole is an honor roll student at Virginia Tech and is on the Virginia Tech Soccer Team. https://hokiesports.com/news/2019/9/10/womens-soccer-kozlova-named-acc-offensive-player-of-the-week.aspx

  

 

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.