Financial Literacy Competition Winners

Congratulations to the student winners!

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We are excited to publicly announce the results of the December 2025 Financial Literacy Competition. We hosted over 1400 students, over 95 teachers, and over 80 different schools from Ontario and across Canada. Thank you to the teachers at these schools who made this opportunity possible and the students who took on the challenge! Grades 9 and 10 students competed in our Junior Competition and Grades 11 and 12 students competed in our Senior Competition. Congratulations to all participants! 

A special congratulations to our top performers, Ella Li (Junior grand prize recipient) and Ihsan Ali (Senior grand prize recipient) for your first-place finish. Ella and Ihsan​​​​​​n received $750 to be put in an RESP for their post-secondary education. We also recognized the top 10 students in each grade level. Each honour roll recipient received a $75 gift card. 

Below is our December 2025 Honour Roll:

Grade 9
Student Placing School Teacher
Harjap Singh Johar 1 The Woodlands School Hugh Miller
Yixuan Guo 2 St Augustine Catholic High School George Adorante
Marcus Lam 3 St Augustine Catholic High School George Adorante
Yuanda Zheng 4 Milliken Mills High School Salima Nanji
Ethan Wang 5 The Woodlands School Hugh Miller
Nirvan Shahani 6 St. Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Secondary Matthew Aslett
Mayukh Manohar 7 Pickering H.S. Sandeep Bansi
n/a 8 St Augustine Catholic High School George Adorante
n/a  9 Martingrove C.I. Michael Goldberg
n/a 10 Banting Memorial High School Doug Henderson

Grade 10
Student Placing School Teacher
Ella Li 1 (Top performer) AY Jackson Secondary School Ali Meilach
Sreedivya Kolavennu 2 SATEC@W.A Porter C.I Stephanie Ly
Aayan Roy 3 Town Centre Private Schools Delwar Faruque
Musa Arshad 4   n/a
Dylan Barraghi 5 Town Centre Private Schools Delwar Faruque
Meral Isbilen 6 Nile Academy Michael Kaszowski
Sawdah Rahman 7 TDSB Virtual Secondary School Pritesh Patel
Wareesha Khan 8 St. Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Secondary Matthew Aslett
Arrian Wu 9 Mentor College Corina Alb
Zach G. 10 Elmira District Secondary School Brooke Sharpe

Grade 11
Student Placing School Teacher
Tej Shah 1 Rick Hansen Secondary School Justin Burns
Gabriel Habashy 2 Philopateer Christian College Mary Nakhla
Sriram Mynam 3 Milton District High School Chandni Chaudhar
Efe Topcu 4    
James Ai 5 Bloor C.I. Elizabeth Wilson-MacKay
Shijiaqing Liu 6 Centennial Secondary School Micheal Howitt
Ethan Ping 6 Mentor College Corina Alb
Ibrahim Siddiqi 8 Elsie MacGill Secondary School Nayab Qureshi
Abhidipta Bhatta 9 White Oaks Secondary School Christine Ivey
Xiangran Li 9 Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School Nathan Shrubsole
Eshal Alam 10 Milton District High School Chandni Chaudhar

Grade 12
Student Placing School Teacher
Ihsan Ali 1 (Top performer) Saunders Secondary School Leah Harrington
Thevindu Gunasekera 2 White Oaks Secondary School Christine Ivey
Bhavya Modi 2 Turner Fenton Secondary School Eunjung Ko
n/a 2   n/a
Omer Iqbal 5 St. Marcellinus Secondary School Julia Diab
Rayan Jouini 5   n/a
n/a 5 Saunders Secondary School Leah Harrington
Ahmad Abrar 8 Old Scona Academic Gerald Chung
Hana Amer 8 Riverside Secondary School Nikki Cvoro
Dylan Anderson 8 Martingrove C.I. Michael Goldberg

The top performing schools and recipients of $500 for financial literacy resources for the classroom are:

  • 1st place – St. Marcellinus Secondary School (Teacher: Julia Diab)
  • 2nd place – Sandwich Secondary School (Teacher: Rob Jasey) 
  • 3rd place – Centennial Secondary School (Teacher: Micheal Howitt)

Congratulations to all our participants!