Local high school students wins province wide essay content
Posted Mar 31, 2017 11:48:50 AM.
Last Updated Mar 31, 2017 06:49:18 PM.
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Essays are not something many high school students get excited about.
Not the case for Matea Ceric, a Grade 12 student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute.
She recently won the province-wide Lieutenant Governor’s Climate Change Essay Challenge.
The contest, hosted in partnership with the Centre for International Governance Innovation, asked students to write on how Canada will stop climate change by 2067.
Ceric’s uniquely positive approach won the judges over: “Whenever we hear of the environment and environmental issues we always hear about the negative: the ice caps are melting, there are endangered spices dying off. I feel like when you look at any issue there is also an optimistic side, that’s what I was thinking with this essay.”
Ceric’s paper described Canada as a global environmental leader that re-examined the energy sector to focus on renewable resources, and created low-waste, smart cities.
With her winning submission, Ceric will also take home a $3,000 prize that will help with her academic endeavors.
Ceric has been accepted to the University of Waterloo’s highly competitive Engineering program.
She says she would also like her paper to encourage other young people to speak up about subjects they are passionate about.
“I think it’s important for anyone if you have an issue that’s important, to present other people with ideas because it is through simple ideas that we have managed to change society for the better.”
Matea Ceric’s essay can be found here.
