Financial Literacy Competition Winners

Congratulations to the student winners!

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We are excited to publicly announce the results of the December 2023 Financial Literacy Competition. We hosted approximately 1400 students, 70 teachers, and 63 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, Sabrena Jegatheeswaran (Junior grand prize recipient) and Arish Shahab (Senior grand prize recipient) for your first-place finish. Sabrena and Arish 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 2023 Honour Roll:

Grade 9
Student Placing School Teacher
Chelsea Ji 1 White Oaks Secondary School Christine Ivey
Gabriel Habashy 2 Philopateer Christian College Mary Nakhla
Victor Jiao 3 Waterloo Collegiate Institute James Shearer
Hida Aziz 4 Olive Grove High School Asma Arif
Aisha Ghafur 5 Olive Grove High School Asma Arif
Zoha Merchant 6 Olive Grove High School Asma Arif
Amogh Bandekar 7 Laurel Heights Secondary School Josh Alexander
Nabeeha Atif 8 Olive Grove High School Asma Arif
Miles Williams 9 Laurel Heights Secondary School Josh Alexander
Isabella Huang 10 Markville Secondary School Nathan Shrubsole

Grade 10
Student Placing School Teacher
Sabrena Jegatheeswaran 1 Milliken Mills High School Andre Henry
Yueheng Fu 2 Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School Amul Gandhi
Guo Chen 3 Markville High School Nathan Shrubsole
Holly Yu 4 The Bishop Strachan School Alex Sayers
Hamza Muddassar 5 Georges Vanier Secondary School Gloria Yoon
Sophia Xu 6 St. Francis Xavier Secondary School Neil Harrison
William Ellinas 7 Richview Collegiate Institute Georgia Markakos
Azra Ozdemir 8 Laurel Heights Secondary School n/a
Ethan Borovilos 9 Richview Collegiate Institute Georgia Markakos
Ray Tan 9 Milliken Mills High School Manmeet Husson

Grade 11
Student Placing School Teacher
Emily Chappel 1 White Oaks Secondary School Christine Ivey
Jai Pannu 2 Old Scona Academic Gerald Chung
Athrav Seruwam 3 Garth Webb Secondary School Ian Chau
Saras Agrawal 4 Old Scona Academic Gerald Chung
Nikita Tarlo 5 Prestige School Yana Abramov
Adam Kamel 6 York Mills Collegiate Institute Vanessa Yoon
Raghav Khanna 7 Garth Webb Secondary School Ian Chau
Himanshu Surukanti 8 Old Scona Academic Gerald Chung
Alexander Bakharev 9 Prestige School Yana Abramov
Harish Rahukulan 10 St. Augustine Catholic High School Patricia Brizzi

Grade 12
Student Placing School Teacher
Arish Shahab 1 Garth Webb Secondary School Ian Chau
Parthiv Paul 2 SATEC @ W.A Porter Collegiate Institute Stephanie Ly
Husayn Jaffer 3 Cardinal Carter Catholic High School n/a
Dylan Yang 4 The Woodlands School Hugh Miller
Tanveer Dhillon 5 Sandalwood Heights Secondary School Alison Christie
Mohid Aamir 6 SATEC @ W.A Porter Collegiate Institute Stephanie Ly
Khush Patel 7 St. Francis Xavier Secondary School Neil Harrison
Yawen Zhang 8 Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School Amul Gandhi
Jasman Chandi 9 Milliken Mills High School Manmeet Husson
Nabrang Sarma 10 William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute Florina Basaraba

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

  • 1st place – St. Francis Xavier Secondary School (Teacher: Neil Harrison)
  • 2nd place – Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School (Teacher: Amul Gandhi)
  • 3rd place – White Oaks Secondary School (Teacher: Christine Ivey)

Congratulations to all our participants! Thanks to Sagen™ for making these generous prizes possible.