OFSAA Gold MEDAL !

The girls competed in Brampton from June 1-3.  They won their first game 36-3 over Malvern.  Scorers included: Morgan 3 Tries, 3 Converts; Brittney 2 tries; Brittany Try.  The girls won their quarter-final game 7-5 over Mayfield.  Morgan had the lone try and convert.  In the semi-final the girls dominated Lakeshore Catholic 15-0. Brittany scored 2 tries, a convert, and a penalty kick. In an amazing final game the girls again dominated the competition, winning 10-0 over Ashbury College.  This ends an unbelievable season in which the girls brought home Centennial's first ever OFSAA gold team medal.   This group of very talented athletes, put together Centennial's best athletic performance ever.  They only gave up a total of 8 points over the entire OFSAA championship!  Congratulations to every member of team for unforgettable season.

OFSAA Champs!!!!!!!

Centennial recognizes some of their top students!

Pictured above are Centennial's 3 major award winners.  On the left, Emma, was the winner of the Principal's Leadership award.  This award is given to a student with outstanding contribution to the school and she lead many different activities throughout the year. Pictured in the middle, Levon, was the winner of the Centennial Award.  This is Centennial's most prestigious award and is selected by the staff for his overall contribution and effort given to the school and the well rounded student that he is. Finally, pictured on the right is Jackie, who was the winner of the     Co-operator's community involvement award.  Jackie's dedication to the community was outstanding, as she gave countless hours to many different endeavors. She was involved in many environmental projects throughout her time here at Centennial.  All 3 students should be commended on their hard work this year and this great accomplishment!

Brain Bee Challenge

Both Nafisa and Liwei made it to the final 5 students.  Nafisa was unfortunately eliminated in the first round. Liwei continued and ended up finishing in second place. Both girls had fun and did an amazing job.

Science Olympics

In the junior Gryphon Combat Computing event, the following students placed FIRST:  Jason, Shuang , Alice, and Isuri

In the junior SURVIVOR biology game event, the following students placed FIRST: Frank, Julia, Chelsea, and Stephanie

In the junior Catapult Engineering event, the following students placed FIRST: Isuri, Peter, Cody, and Tori

Our Centennial science Olympics team also placed SECOND in the two junior events of Barnyard Science in Agriculture and the Chemistry Scramble event.

We also placed THIRD in the four junior events of “The Hand is Faster than the Eye” physics event, “The Real Dirt” soil science event, the amazing environmental biology challenge, and the Gryphon Gladiatorial Mathematics event.

In the senior SURVIVOR biology game event, the following students placed FIRST:  Jackie, Alexis, Leslie, and Nafisa

In the senior Green Thing Sleuthing Agriculture event, the following students placed FIRST:  Leslie, Alexis, Peter, and Sofia

Our Centennial science Olympics team also placed SECOND in the senior physics event of “Circuit Sleuths” and we also placed THIRD in the senior Gryphon Combat computing event.

Mr. Sutherland and Ms. Tanner tied for SECOND in the teacher event and brought home two pieces of science equipment for the school.

Congratulations to our Centennial Science Olympians!

Alexis and Julia competed at the National Skills Canada in Charlottetown, PEI.

This was an incredible feat considering Alexis is a Grade 11 student and Julia is only a grade 10 student. The four of us, accompanied by the girls' good luck charm Melvin, had a wonderful experience meeting various skills’ competitors, their coaches, and judges from all over Canada. Over an intense couple of days of competition, Julia and Alexis represented the province of Ontario meeting just about EVERYBODY on the island.

Julia brought home the GOLD for competing in the Job Skills Demonstration event - demonstrating how to bake her delicious apple pie. They are very tasty!  Great work by both girls, you made Centennial very proud.

Students Excel at Many Science Competitions

From May 11th to May 15th, four Centennial students competed in Winnipeg at the Canada-Wide Science Fair. They brought home a bronze medal, two honourable mentions, and two innovation awards. In addition, Centennial will be represented at the International Science Fair this summer in Tunisia.

Partners Sofia and Noorain
With their project "Chemotherapy Drugs: Less is More" were awarded
-the Senior Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical science Honourable Mention and the Senior Petro-Canada Peer Innovation Award.

Partners Hillary Dawkins and Susie Pan
With their project "Extending the Lifespan of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells" were awarded
-the Senior Environmental Innovation Bronze Medal
-the Senior Engineering Honourable Mention
-the Manning Innovation Award
-a University of Western Ontario Scholarship
-a University of Ottawa scholarship,
and named to Team Canada at the 2009 Milset International Science and Engineering fair in Tunisia.

Science Olympics

Robot Competition

Team Gold:
Taylor, Chris, Spencer, Cameron

Team Silver
Adam  and Kevin

2009 ART SHOW AWARDS:

Best Junior Drawing: Jordan

Best Junior Painting: Carson

Best Junior Print: Stella

Best Junior Sculpture: Helena

Best Senior Drawing: Brent

Best Senior Painting: Heather

Best Senior Print: Alexis

Best Senior Sculpture: Annia

Best Digital Print: Allie

Best Craft: Mitchell

Best in Show: Wendy

Honourable Mentions:

Junior  

Amin 

Lily          

Stella   

Jennifer   

Samantha

Rachael

Jonathan  

Senior

Travis

Mike

Heather

Molei

Max  

Trevor

Jenny

Sculpting Class

Flock of Curious Sheep

3D Character Animation (Team of 2) - Donovan & Cale
Web Site Development - James
Job Interview - Yvonne
Geographic Information Systems (Team of 2) - Matthew & Nicholas SILVER MEDAL

Our next two students actually won GOLD at their respective events and will now be going to PEI from May 19 - 23 to compete at the National Level.

Job Skill Demonstration - Julia
IT Office Software Applications - Alexis

Please congratulate all of these students for a job well done!

Mock Trial team has highest finish ever as a team.

On March 30th, the school's mock trial team got up early in the morning to travel to Brantford to compete in the regional mock trial championships. The team members consisted of Peter, Andrea, Sarah, Emma (The Lawyers), Justin and Daniel (The witnesses).  In the 1st round match up, the Spartans battled to victory.  The win set up a match with the same school that knocked out the Spartans last year.  They achieved a great victory, not only winning the match, but also presenting such a great case that they got the "accused convicted", which in this trial was not an easy task.  In the competition's semi-final, the Spartans faced a great team and ended up losing a close battle to Assumption from Burlington. The loss in the semi-final was Centennial's best finish ever.  Awesome work by all students!

Centennial's Spartan Cheerleading Team Placed First at Regional Competition

On Saturday, March 2nd, Centennial's Cheerleading team travelled to Mississauga to compete in the Regional competition. They arrived bright and early to the Hershey Center in order to prepare themselves for their hard two minute and thirty second routine.  Weeks before the competition the girls practiced everyday to perfect their stunts, dances and cheer. With brand new uniforms, the girls were ready to compete. They all worked very hard, performing the routine they had all done a million times before. All their hard worked paid off as they came home with a first place trophy. The team is now ready to work even harder as they will be going to Provincials in April.

Great Work Spartans!

On Saturday, March 2nd, Centennial's two mock trial teams competed for legal glory at the Douglas cup.  Four teams were competing this year, they included Centennial (2), Bishop Mac, and Lourdes.  In the opening matches, BM defeated Lourdes in the one semi-final and the Centennial Senior Team, defeated the Junior Team by 2 points.   It was great work by both teams and it showed the true talent of all participants.  In the final, the Spartans battled the Celtics and it was a great legal battle.  The contest went back and forth as both sides tried to outwit the other.  In the end, the match ended up tied and the decision unfortunately went to BM.  The seniors should be commended on their great legal knowledge and execution of their plan.

Boys Basketball Win D10 Championship

The Spartan Boys Basketball team travelled to the University of Guelph on February 20th to play in the District 10 finals against Ross.

It was an intense game, the Spartans took a quick lead, but then Ross come back tying it up 8-8. Ross then got ahead of Centennial but at the end of the first quarter Brian got a quick two pointer putting us ahead by one point. The second quarter was a battle as the Royals pulled ahead at the beginning, then the Spartans ended the quarter ahead 36-32.

The Spartans came out in the third quarter strong and took a slight lead to end the third.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, both Brain and Jay had four fouls, as Jay sat on the bench, Brian played strong and committed his last foul, and he fouled out of the game. Jay then came on to replace Brian and played very strong and a few minutes later Jay also fouled out. The Spartans shook it off, and continued to play strong and gained a 7 point advantage. Ross scored a quick three pointer, and in the last 11 seconds they scored a two pointer but it wasn't enough. The Spartans ended the game on the winning side and won, 59-57.  This win gave the Spartans 8 D10 Championships over the past 9 years. Top scorers for the game were Rob with 15 and Jay with 11. Adrian V and Brian played an excellent game off the bench and sparked the Spartans victory.

Good Luck At CWOSSA

Girls Hockey Claims D10 Championship

On February 26th, our Spartan Girls walked as a team to Centennial Arena where Bishop Mac was waiting. The Girls walked in confidentially, entered the changeroom and out screamed music. The girls got dressed as their music was pumping. Bishop Mac had started their warm up when our girls took to the ice. The crowd went wild. The girls never hesitated once as the puck dropped to the ice and as they began the D10 Final.

The Spartan girls took the lead in the first, where Brittany M scored unassisted. The period also included a penalty against Ashlean and one against Bishop Mac. Other than that, the first period was a sampling of what was to come.

The second period, being more eventful, was when our girls broke out and scored two. Morgan scored at 5:00, assisted by Jill and Julianne. Jill then scored of her own, unassisted.

Entering the third period, our Spartan Girls took to the newly zambonied ice and held off Bishop Mac for the entire period. The girls killed two penalties and claimed the D10 Championship with a 3-0 win over Bishop Mac.

Shout out to Lauren who made numerous saves and kept the shut-out alive.

Congratulations to all the girls and coaches!

Good Luck At CWOSSA

Spartan Captures Silver Medal

Andrew returns from 2 weeks in Boise, Idaho where he played as a member of Canada's Floor Hockey Team. His team played hard throughout the two weeks and battled a variety of countries from around the world, including Russia and Jamaica.  His team returns as silver medallists after a heart-breaking 8-7 loss to Jamaica, in front of a live audience of 2000, last Friday.  Andrew should be commended on his hard work and dedication.  He has made the Spartan community very proud! 

SKI TEAM CAPTURES CWOSSA!

For the first time in years, the Spartans compiled a ski team and they did not disappoint in their first year. In their first attempt at the title together they successfully won the overall CWOSSA team championships! The womens' team, led by Kat, as well as Meggie, Jacqueline and Charmaine placed 3rd as a team. The mens team of: Gregory, Keiran, Marcus,Taylor and Drew placed 2nd as a team with an incredibly close run at first. Mrs. Doney and Mr. Barr would like to thank the the team for a great season, and Liz and Sarah for their course work.

Rob Nash Emphasizes M.A.D.D. Presentation

On February 11, Rob Nash from the band Live on Arrival paid a special visit to Centennial on behalf of the M.A.D.D. presentation held by O.S.A.I.D. The presentation consisted of a dramatic representation of a horrible accident that happened because of impaired driving. The audience watched Rob Nash on screen as he took us through many real incidents that occurred to real families and friends. Rob Nash was then brought on stage to convey his message in regards to drunk driving while playing an original song of his for the audience. The show then closed off with the president of M.A.D.D. Wellington presenting O.S.A.I.D. with a lovely banner.

Deca Provincials in Toronto

115 Centennial students attended the Deca competitions over the weekend of February 7 & 8. They stayed at the Sheridan in Toronto. The Centennial students participated in a range of events from accounting, marketing, sports management, finance, and entrepreneurial. They competed against many other promising students from several other schools.

To make it into Deca Internationals, you must place Top 5 in your category. An amazing group of 33 students qualified for the international level in Anaheim, California.

EastSide Mario's Basketball Tournament

On January 9th and 10th, The annual Eastside Mario's Tournament was held at Centennial. Several schools from around Ontario travelled to our high school to show their stuff. It was a great tournament, with a very high level of play demonstrated by the boys. 

Our Spartan team played well in each of their games and stole the show. The Boys went 3-0, by defeating Grand River from Kitchener, Frontenac from Kingston, and in the final Sir John A. MacDonald from Kitchener.  The boys had a great tournament and should be commended on their effort.  Travin was named MVP of the tournament and Adrian A and Robert were named tournament All-Stars

Spiking For A Better Future

On January 8th, 2009, our Senior Girls Volleyball team spiked their way to victory against the Ross team. The girls, through hard work and determination, won 3-1 in sets. They wore their pink jerseys and put pink ribbons in their hair to raise awareness for Breast Cancer. Forum and SSA teamed up to advertise this event and it was the first time in Centennial's history that any sports team had done this. The gym bleachers filled up with students, parents, and teachers all cheering for a cause. At the start of the day, pink ribbons were handed out to everyone in the school and donations to Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation were made throughout the day. Thanks to everyone who came out to watch because it was a great turn out. The jerseys that were worn by the players are being auctioned off for additional donations.

DID YOU RAISE YOUR GAME?

The Grade 12 Business Leadership class ran a very successful "Raise Your Game, 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament" yesterday. The success of this event is due to the generous support of Ms. Magahay, Ms. Chesney, Mr. Magee, Mr. Treiguts, Ms. Kuz, Mr. Tozer, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Milton, and Mr. Ernie Trento and Mr. Brian Trento.  Thank you so much to everyone who supported this event, the students were awesome!  In total 15 teams participated.  The winning team was a CCVI team, which included, Mike, Noor, Nirushan, and Mac, which walked away with Raptors tickets.  So far the students have raised over $500, all of which will go to the United Way's Tomorrow Fund.

HAH! WE HAD A THEME ALL ALONG

The Music Knights holiday concert was a grand, rip roaring success. Our MC's decided to start off our night by telling us that they didn't have a theme! OH NOES! But their crazy antics throughout their theme competition certainly made up for the lack of theme.
Well throughout the night, the Music Knights dazzled the crowd with their musical talents of a holiday nature. Previous K-Niggets joined the Music Knights on stage for the classic holiday song, "Sleigh Ride" and contributed their part in the oh-so famous "CLAP".
Mr. Goddard's granddaughters made a guest appearance as they conducted the very last song of the evening. The crowd just about ate them up!

Special thanks to all Music Knights, Jenn Rodgers, Mr.Goddard, Mr.Daniels and the Tech Crew.

'THE RUMORS' WERE TRUE

Ms. Austin's adaptation of Neil Simon's play 'Rumors' was a grand success. The Production course practiced dilligently from the start of the school year to put on such a spectacular show. Sets had to be made, lines had to be rehearsed and it all came together last week as they held their morning and evening performances. The Production course had a wonderful time, keeping the crowd laughing, but also making them suspicious. What really happened, was the question.

Special thanks to Ms. Austin, the Production course and the always so helpful Tech Crew.

CARDBOARD BOATS TO LONDON!

On Tuesday, December the 2nd, two Centennial teams travelled to London to compete in the regional boat race competition.We had the largest boats and other teams were amazed that we all had equal amounts of cardboard.

The team consisting of Julia, Akindele, Mankays and Levi managed to hold the most weight with five people (they held 7 people at our run-off competition) and it was just over 500 lbs. The other team made up of James, Tim, Aedan and Leslie had a very fine pirate motif. It would have to said that they had the best "team spirit" of all the teams that were there.

Out of 21 teams, our teams places 6th and 15th.  Excellent job for our 1st time in the competition.