Committed to sports as a way of finding the road to success

Categorized at the end of elementary school as an unruly child and thus assigned to a special education class upon entering high school, Charlie Williams, a student at Saint-Laurent high school, has been through some hard times. The victim of mockery from his fellow students and sometimes provoking angry responses from his teachers, one day he decided he’d had enough of being at a standstill and being told he’d never make any headway. Today, Charlie draws motivation from his love of basketball, and has fought back, making up for lost time and dreaming of going on to university in a not so distant future.
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Committed to regaining control of her life and adopting a positive outlook

If you look at the recent achievements of Myriam Tousignant, a Secondary 5 student at De la Rive high school in Lavaltrie, you would be convinced that she is a popular and model student. And this in fact is true. Last year Myriam was on the student council and a member of the organizing committee for the gala of excellence, the school’s Walt Disney trip committee and even the Lavaltrie snow festival committee. She has contagious energy, is brimming with enthusiasm and her academic grades are impressive. The complete opposite of the Myriam of a few years ago for whom drug and alcohol abuse, friends with a negative influence and a total indifference to school were part of everyday life.
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Committed to fighting his cancer and making up for lost time

If there’s one period in life when you feel on top of the world and you forge ahead regardless of the obstacles on your path, it has to be adolescence. This is most probably why Marc-André St-Louis remained impassive when, at the age of only 16, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease. At the time, he was much more concerned for his parents and family, but he soon had to face the facts. A good student and thriving athlete, his focus of attention quickly turned solely towards his health. Today, Marc-André is in full remission and is slowly regaining control of a life that he now appreciates and sees in a whole new light.
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Committed to regaining control of her life and preaching by example

The passage from elementary to high school can at times be somewhat turbulent. For Bianca Lamontagne, this transition was marked by rebellion. Rejecting authority and school, the young girl who was twelve at the time ended up on a path studded with foster homes, drug and alcohol abuse, running away and violence, a turbulent course that propelled her at 200 kilometres/hour directly towards dropping out of school. But one day she decided to slow down and pick up where she had left off, and she now stands out as a model of perseverance and wants more than anything else to pursue a career as a youth counsellor.
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Committed to taking his rightful place despite his differences

When you talk to Samuel Huppé, a Secondary 2 at Pierre-Laporte high school, you quickly come to realise that he is a determined individual who refuses to be put off by “stoppers of progress.” Though suffering from cerebral palsy and confined to a wheelchair, upon finishing elementary school, the 14 year old decided to leave a specialized learning environment and enter a regular high school. Astute, amiable, emphatic to a fault, cultivated, athletic and successful at school, Samuel shows a maturity that is rare for a boy his age. Thanks to this maturity, he sees his life in a positive light and has become actively involved, among other things, in a project for creating a school newspaper.
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Committed to proving that where there’s a will there’s a way

If all the members of staff at Arthur-Pigeon high school in Huntingdon agree in singling out Nathan Lopoko Bissaolo for his progress, it is surely because the young man has come a long way and that he stands apart for his newfound determination. There are tangible results of this transformation. Nathan, who is 16 years old, was invited to join the school soccer team, was called upon to take part as a model in a fund-raising fashion show organized by the staff and students at his school and is a loyal member of the Air Cadets, and his avowed goal is to fulfil his dream of becoming a helicopter pilot.
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