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HCOS Alumna Brie Qualifies for the Olympics with Team Canada Women’s Volleyball

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Brie has been playing volleyball since third grade. “I watched both my older sisters playing when I was little and wanted to follow in their footsteps,” she says. After four years of collegiate volleyball at Trinity Western University, she went on to play professionally and for Team Canada. Going the Distance What makes this qualification […]

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Ancient Passion, Modern Achievement: Javier A.’s History-Making Summer

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For most Grade 10 students, history is a subject on a timetable. For Javier A., it’s more of a calling. That passion carried him further this past August, all the way to an intensive, in-person workshop in Vancouver where secondary students from around the world learn to research and write history the way university scholars

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Cassia W.’s Turtle-y Amazing Conservation Work

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It started in the summer of 2024 in the East Kootenays, where Cassia was introduced to the plight of the Western Painted Turtle while volunteering alongside the BC Parks Head Biologist at Kikomun Provincial Park, the park her parents managed. There, she helped monitor turtles around the lakes, locate nesting sites, and ensure visitors weren’t

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HCOS Student Awarded Canada’s Largest Undergraduate Scholarship – Congrats Magda

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We are thrilled to share some extraordinary news: Magda G., a graduate of HCOSl, has been selected to receive a $100,000 Schulich Leader Scholarship to study Astrophysics at the University of Calgary this fall. This is a landmark achievement; Magda is the first HCOS student ever to achieve the Schulich Leader Scholarship, one of the

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