Financial Literacy Competition Winners

Congratulations to the student winners!

We are excited to publicly announce the results of the December 2024 Financial Literacy Competition. We hosted over 1600 students, 94 teachers, and 74 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, Sebastian Useche (Junior grand prize recipient) and Anushka Punukollu (Senior grand prize recipient) for your first-place finish. Sebastian and Anushka 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 2024 Honour Roll:

Grade 9

Student	Placing	School	Teacher
Arnav Jassal	1	Harold M. Brathwaite Secondary School	Kinda Johnson
Victoria Su	2	St. Augustine CHS	George Adorante
Sofia Pozdniakova	3	Meadowvale Secondary School	James Desjardins
Eashan Duggal	4	Harold M. Brathwaite Secondary School	Kinda Johnson
Aahil Sri	5	Bill Hogarth Secondary School	n/a
Joshua Laoye	6	A. Y. Jackson Secondary School	Ali Meilach
Maria Polysanska	7	Garth Webb Secondary School	Ian Chau
Siddh Modi	8	Bill Hogarth Secondary School	n/a
Ray Liu	9	Pickering College	Brooke Overington
Luke McSpadden	10	Eden High School	Holly Etherington

Grade 10

Student	Placing	School	Teacher
Sebastian Useche	1	Iroquois Ridge High School	Lisa Vieira
Abhidipta Bhatta	2	White Oaks Secondary School	Christine Ivey
Pooja Senthil Kumar	3	White Oaks Secondary School	Christine Ivey
n/a	4	Iroquois Ridge High School	Rishi Malhotra
Angela Mahou	5	Richview Collegiate Institute	Georgia Markakos
n/a	6	Newmarket High School	Tanya Santo
Magaret Chen	7	Branksome Hall	Colleen Ketchum
Gabriella Ipwanshek	8	White Oaks Secondary School	Christine Ivey
Syed Hoda	9	Iroquois Ridge High School	Lisa Vieira
Ibrahim Siddiqi	10	Elsie MacGill Secondary School	Nayab Qureshi

Grade 11

Student	Placing	School	Teacher
Gurshan Marahrh	1	Turner Fenton Secondary School	Eunjung Ko
Dhumin Patel	2	Turner Fenton Secondary School	Eunjung Ko
Munjal Patel	3	Martingrove C.I.	Michael Goldberg
Sophia Xu	4	St. Francis Xaier C.S.S.	Neil Harrison
Nethuki Wickramasuriya	5	The Woodlands School	Hugh Miller
Raghav Singh	6	Milton District high School	Chandni Chaudhary
Emre Sengul	7	Prestige School	Yana Abramov
n/a	8	White Oaks Secondary School	Christine Ivey
Richard Stsiapura	9	Prestige School	Yana Abramov
Felice Hu	10	A. Y. Jackson Secondary School	Ali Meilach

Grade 12

Student	Placing	School	Teacher
Anushka Punukollu	1	St. Edmund Campion Secondary School	Brian Pinto
Panth Kiklawala	2	St. Edmund Campion Secondary School	Brian Pinto
Angad Singh	3	Garth Webb Secondary School	Ian Chau
Dave Grewal	4	St. Francis Xaier C.S.S.	Neil Harrison
Dhruv Shukla	5	St. Francis Xaier C.S.S.	Neil Harrison
Jinay Desai	6	Turner Fenton Secondary School	Eunjung Ko
Ashwin Kirupananthan	7	Dr GW Williams Secondary School	Nivia Talarico
Patrick Choi	8	Old Scona Academic	Gerald Chung
Derek Mah	9	Old Scona Academic	Gerald Chung
Rohit Makkikana	10	Old Scona Academic	Gerald Chung

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

1^st place – Old Scona Academic (Teacher: Gerald Chung)
2^nd place – White Oaks Secondary School (Teacher: Christine Ivey)
3^rd place – Garth Webb Secondary School (Teacher: Ian Chau)

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