Grade 6 and 8 students meet the Challenge

Selwyn House Grade 6 student Max Arbour and Grade 8 student Nicolas Capolicchio both achieved the highest scores in the Province of Quebec for their age group in the 2021 Scholastic Challenge.

 

And, for the third year in a row, the Selwyn House team has taken third place in all of Quebec in the Grade 6 age group.

 

Throughout February and March, Grade 6 and Grade 8 students across Canada competed in the 2021 Scholastic Challenge, an online quiz testing general knowledge. We are proud to announce that 27 of our Grade 6 students and 23 of our Grade 8s achieved results above the national average.

 

Those with above-average scores from Grade 8 were:

William Birks, Philip Baltuch, Jake Benchetrit-Morrison, Samuel Gendron, Luca Franco, Adam Freedin, Mark Kapusta, Soren Matossian, Nicolas Capolicchio, Andrew Dahms, Richard Li, Alec Barin, Alistair Alloucherie Conover, Thomas Vinh, Mohamed Ibrahim, Ethan Nisbet, Pasquale Presti, Luca Kestenband, Andrei Marentette, Adam Vinh, Jack Salkovitz, Nathan Twik and Matthew Dennis.

 

Scoring above average for Grade 6 were:

Max Arbour, Justin Mancer, Jonathan Nadler, Spencer Roiter, Oli Morin, Leo Smilow, Matthew Hladky, Vincent Baillargeon, Vojtech Blasch, Ethan Wang, Clement Ma, Jasper Oldland, Max Caddick, Laszlo Sontag, Omar El Sehemawi, Mateo Novak, Emmett Friedman, Jackson Pitfield, Gus Matossian, Matthieu Rémillard, William Hébert, Junge Cao, Shuan Hatami, Adam Rahal, Diego Kestenband, Jack Haddad and Laurent Mayer.

 

For the past twenty-five years, The Scholastic Challenge has provided students with an entertaining and challenging enrichment activity that allows them to demonstrate a variety of problem-solving skills and knowledge in many academic areas.