Lexi Christiaans, a student at St. Charles College competed in a business plan challenge hosted by the Regional Business Centre – Sudbury at Collège Boréal. She competed against students from various high schools around the city. It was a dragon’s den style competition, where students needed to pitch their business plan idea to a panel of judges comprising mostly of local entrepreneurs or business leaders. Lexi’s idea was “Woofers”, a dog training/sitting service that would be done at the customers home. Lexi’s project came out on top, walking away with a
I’m happy to say that she won the competition today and walked away with a cheque of $800! Great job Lexi!
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In honour of our employees – 2018 Retirement Dinner!
We were proud to honour our employees on May 31, 2018 in our annual retirement dinner. Together, we honoured the recipients of this year’s Chairperson’s Award as well as those employees who have given 25 years of service and those who are retiring this year! Thank you for your commitment to our Catholic community!
Sudbury Catholic Schools receives visit from Anphat Investment & Consultancy Agency
Mai and Uyen from Anphat Investment & Consultancy visited our secondary schools and toured the city of Sudbury. We currently have 3 students from the agency that are studying at St. Charles College.
Phoenix is a big deal around St. Benedict’s
Grade 7 student Phoenix Wilson is no stranger to film and in June he’s headed to Utah to work with Award winning Director & Actor Robert Redford.
Wilson was handpicked by up and coming director Lyle Corbine to be part of a Director’s Lab with Robert Redford on the Director’s panel. Redford will also be giving Phoenix feedback on his acting skills along the way.
The film, called “Wild Indian” will feature Phoenix as “Makwa” a kid who is on the edge of taking the wrong path in life.
Phoenix recognizes this is a big deal but he is very much a humble grade 7 student.
Phoenix will depart in mid June for Sundance, Utah to stay at the Sundance Resort in Utah which is owned by Redford.
He was featured in Longmire, a popular series on Netflix as well as a number of Cinefest films over the years.
St. Benedict students are embracing the universal language of coding!
Grade 7 & 8 students are using their creative and fluid minds in the new coding room that they call their very own. Students have been working with different fun coding gadgets like Sphero’s, Code Gamers, Cyber Robots and Lego Mind Storm kits. A couple of our grade 8 students participated
Coding is a form of digital literacy, which is useful in everyday life. St. Benedict students are learning many traits and cognitive skills like perseverance, computational thinking, logic and problem solving while participating in the coding club.
Wil Pudapakkam is a grade eight student. He says “If you know how to code you can make apps, games and websites, which essentially entertains students and makes them happy.”
Another grade 8 student named Tyler Smith says “As the world get’s more technologically advanced, coding becomes more essential in getting a job, as there are more opportunities these types of fields.”
Our students participated in a presentation/workshop put on by the YMCA that is designed to help bridge the gap between youth in underrepresented groups and provide the digital skills that are critical to economic participation. The pilot will focus on building digital literacy skills, enabling participating youth, aged 12-16 roughly, to build a foundation for future engagement in STEM careers and the digital economy. Many of our students will be participating in the free 8-12 week program, which will run at the beginning of June at the YMCA.
St. Benedict heads to Chicago for Business
The St. Benedict CSS Business Studies program – lead by Mr. Giuseppe Politi – participated in it’s annual international field trip from Wednesday, May 16 to Sunday, May 20 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The students, ranging from grades 9-12 visited a variety of business-related events.
Firstly, the group participated in an entrepreneurship seminar at Catholic-based DePaul University. The group then had a guided tour and banking presentation at the Federal Reserve Money Museum. Students also participated in a stock market seminar at the Chicago Board of Exchange. Finally, the Apple Store hosted the students in an interactive advertising competition using modern technology.
Other notable stops included a Chicago White Sox game, Holy Name Cathedral, a guided double decker bus tour, famous landmarks including Cloud Gate, and even some deep dish pizza at Lou Malnati’s!
In previous years, the program has visited New York City, Washington DC, and Boston. 2019 planning has already begun!
Class helps build community garden!
Students in Mme Wright’s Grade 3 FI class are some of several students helping the Coniston Community Garden this season. They are looking forward to taking good care of the plants and watching them grow into yummy vegetables. Once the plants are strong enough, they will be brought outdoors to be planted in the Coniston Community Garden.
St. Benedict student wins Best Crown Advocate
Last week, St. Benedict’s students took part in the annual City Mock Trial and one of the students walked away with the award for Best Crown Advocate.
Declan McCann, who is only in grade 11 this year took the award in the mock trial case of R V Rogers which was a manslaughter case.
The mock trial has become a yearly event whereby a case is presented to the students and the schools face off against each other.
McCann, says “so much time was spent doing research into this trial and he now understands the process of what a lawyer does daily.” He says that he spent two months working on this particular case and in total spent sixty hours. That hard work did pay off in dividends.
McCann says he is considering taking on next year’s trial.