This year's Intermediate Division musical, "Bye Bye Birdie" tells the story of Conrad Birdie - a 1950s rock star - who travels to Sweet Apple, Ohio to perform his hit, "One Last Kiss", and give one lucky girl from his fan club a real "last kiss" on The Ed Sullivan Show before going into the Army.
 
The shows took place on Tuesday and Wednesday night this week.
 
Grade 6 Mentor student, Graeme Inglis, submitted the following report:
 
"With a “standing-room only” audience on opening night, and a packed house on closing night, outstanding performances were given by all 32 cast members, including leads Russell Sweeney, Julia Cappellacci, Adina Vlasov, and Evan Bennewies.  A special mention goes to the stage crew and tech team for their awesome work, and who can forget our yellow Tshirt-clad chorus belting out the songs!"
 
Congratulations to the cast and crew of "Bye Bye Birdie" on a truly spectacular production! Miss Derventzis, Mrs. Dziuryn, Ms. Narvaez, and Mr. Belluzzo would like to thank everyone involved for making this year’s musical one to remember! 

Click here to watch highlights from the show!

Intermediate Division Gauss Math Contest Results May 14 2010

38 eager Intermediate Mentor mathematicians wrote the University of Waterloo’s Gauss Math Contest yesterday afternoon in O’Brien Hall. 11 students wrote the Grade 8 contest. Daniel Chen achieved the highest core among the Grade 8s, followed closely by Theresa Siu and Matthew Preston.
 
27 students wrote the Grade 7 contest. Not to be outdone by the Grade 7s, a group of Grades 5 and 6 students also chose to write this test.  Nikhil Bajaj and Naoko Sakata tied for the highest score on this test, each only making one error!  Monish Ahluwalia followed in a close third.  Rakan Khoury, a grade 6 student, finished in fourth place. A special mention goes out to the top three grade 5 and 6 students.  They wrote the competition even though it was above their grade level.
 
Grade 5:  Abbas Jaffer, Kanev Petkar, and Warren Wong
Grade 6:  Rakan Khoury, Timothy Romanski, and Joseph McGuire

Intermediate Students, Parents, & Staff Answer The "Call" Of The Wild January 29 2010

Having collected 96 cell phones to date, the Intermediate Division environment club is 4 phones shy of its goal of 100 phones! The cell phones will be donated to the Toronto Zoo and ECO-CELL, who are working towards gorilla habitat conservation.

Through the recycling of cell phones, and other small electronic devices they are able to help in the preservation of critical lowland gorilla rainforest habitat in Africa.

Click here to learn more.

Mentor Hosts FLL Regional Tournament November 30 2009

This past Saturday, Mentor College hosted the FLL (FIRST LEGO League) Halton-Peel Regional Qualifier Tournament. It is the third year that the school has hosted the event.

The FIRST LEGO League introduces students to real-world engineering challenges, requiring them to build LEGO-based robots designed to complete a series of missions.  FLL teams, guided by their imaginations and their teacher-coaches, discover exciting career possibilities and through the process, learn to make positive contributions to society. The year's tournament theme was "Smart Move" - with the focus on providing innovative ideas to solve transportation problems facing scientists, urban planners, and engineers today.

Mentor College entered 3 teams into the 22-team tournament: "Kinetica X-Elle", "Mentor Mega Makers", and "One Step At A Time." Congtratulations to all of the teams on a job well done - especially to the "Mentor Mega Makers" for reaching the semi-finals and for being invited to the Provincial tournament in January.