Four Danforth MaST students have been awarded prizes (Elemental plaques) and certificates in recognition of their outstanding performances for being in the top 200 in Canada and U.S. on the Avogadro Chemistry Exam. Souradeep S. finished in the 94^th percentile  and Cole J., ANisha N., and David T. finished in the 92^nd percentile.

Nicole F., Ryan M., Mikhail S., Aidan F., Shafee R., Matthew L., and Mahdin A. also scored in the top 80 percent on this internationally written exam. Congratulations to all who wrote the exam.

The team of Eileen W., Max F., Caroline E-K., Priota H., and Prinoti K. won the 2019 University of Toronto Space Design Contest while the other team from Danforth finished second. The challenge this year was to develop a plan to clean up the ever growing problem of space debris. With the win they recieved this telescope for the school. Both teams had to present their proposals in front of a panel of judges consisting of U of T faculty and grad students.

Pictured above from left to right are Eileen W., Oliva R., Chandrima B., Arion H., Megan F., Leigh H., Max F., and Caroline E-K.

Danforth students experienced another successful year on this year's Avogadro Chemistry competition.  Congratulations to Jack L. for receiving an elemental tile for his score within the 92^nd percentile and to Varun P. for scoring within the 84^th percentile.  Honorable mention goes out to 5 more of our Danforth students; Evan B., Samya T., Jonah G-Y, Thomas L., and Ananya P. for scoring within the top 25^th percentile.

Congratulations are in order for Elysia who scored in the 93rd percentile on the Chem 13 chemistry competition and for Emily who scored in the 85th percentile.

Danforth had a stacked team for the competition this year. As a school we finished 12% higher than the Canadian average. Below are the four anchors of the team (Emily, Elysia, Sultan and Adam).

These four scored in the top 25th percentile. Well done  Danforth!

The award ceremony for the York University High School Biophysics contest was held on Friday June 15th at the Life Science Building at York. Danforth knew going in that we had some students in the top 5, but what we didn't know was that we took first and second place along with an honorable mention. Pictured below are Abiali B. (first place) and Ajwad K. (second place) with their certificates. Missing are Maya T. (second place with Ajwad) and Saskia R-S. and Annie D. (honorable mention).

After the award ceremony the students got a tour of some of the facilities at York including the observatory and the antimatter lab. Pictured below are Ajwad and Abiali in the lab.

Danforth is now 2 for 2 in this competition and we are looking forward to the next installment in two years time (unfortunately York does not have enough funds to run the competition annually).  Well done!

Danforth students; Rosmeeah, Mikhail, Lana and Subha attended the TKSummit last weekend on Toronto’s waterfront.

“Take action right now, get a head start into life and take a route that isn’t conventional. This was the message that they really pushed in TKSummit 2018. This conference was a day full of networking, inspiring speakers and idea sharing. We were able to listen to speakers that work for the most influential and powerful companies in the world. We were able to hear what they see as the future and how they personally got into these companies and what they are doing right now. Some of the great ideas came from  speakers from companies such as Facebook, where they created Facebook spaces. The designers integrated VR and create avatars so they were able to connect with people even more. Almost all of the presentations had AI integrated in it. Another point  most of the speakers said was that technological advances used to be growing linearly, but now it’s the age where it grows exponentially.”

Lana T.

Students the grade nine MaST drama class attended a performance of "My Name is Asher Lev" adapted by Aaron Posner from the novel by Chaim Potok. The class additionally participated in three workshop sessions facilitated by two wonderful artist-educators from Studio 180, focusing on themes from the play: family, tradition, culture, faith, honesty and the search for identity.

During the workshops, in addition to a number of lively discussions, the student actors were challenged to take a stand on a continuum of ideas, respond in character, and role play to justify a variety of different viewpoints. Using the techniques of improvisation, hot seating, tableaux and mime, participants explored realistic and abstract expressions of the themes and concepts in the play. 

At the end of the sessions, the guest artists praised all of the students for their collectively strong active participation and collaboration, their willingness to take risks onstage and for the level of commitment and care paid to each activity they undertook. MaST Drama students your efforts continue to make DCTI proud!