Rachel Ma - 2021 Scholarship Winner
Rachel is a curious student who resists apathy and strives to leave positive impacts. She is a leader, who takes initiative, is reliable, and fosters openness and new ways of working. Rachel is thoroughly involved in her community and known for her professionalism and approachability.
She volunteers in her church’s kids’ ministry as a teacher and mentor to toddlers. She deeply enjoys language-learning and various crafts. Her current and ever growing language database includes French, Mandarin, Shanghainese, and ASL.
In her tenure at A. Y. Jackson Secondary School, Rachel excelled in academics and extra-curricular activities. She has been a constant excellence honour roll student, maintaining above a 90 percent average every year. Her average in the grade 12 was 98 percent.
Rachel will be studying at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Her experiences with mentoring young children have revealed a great deal about both the brightness of youth and the unfortunate adversity that many children face. In her future, Rachel plans to work through inequities in the justice system, extend goodwill, and make empowering change. Rachel intends to obtain the Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Toronto. Eventually, she hopes to work in law in the public interest with a focus on underprivileged groups (such as children and immigrants).
In her free time, Rachel strives to adorn smiles on people’s faces by filming and editing videos of their travel adventures and competitions. She also enjoys creating music with her friends.
Gabrielle Cuff - 2021 Scholarship Winner
Gabrielle Cuff is the recipient of the 2021 Rotary Club of Toronto Scholarship. She is embarking on her third year of studies at the University of Toronto. She plans to pursue a career in LAW.
Her first two years were a rollercoaster of online classes and uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, she rallied and got through it. She has been recognized as a Dean’s List Scholar in the Faculty of Arts and Science for the second year in a row. She is looking forward to in-person learning this Fall which she believes will enhance her overall university experience.
Hshmat Sahak – 2019 Scholarship Winner
Biography
Hshmat Sahak, is the recipient of the 2019 Rotary Club of Toronto Scholarship.
He has completed 3 years of his undergraduate degree at U of T, Majoring in Machine Learning in the highly competitive Engineering
Science program.
He has consistently maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.99 and a 95% overall average.
He plans to obtain a PhD degree in Computer Science and work in academia, advancing
state of the art in image processing and natural language models.
Scholarship Rotary Meeting Host: Pauline Lyons
