At first glance it would be easy to label fraternal twins Elliott and Gabriel Birman as opposites. But when it came time to pick a school — Princeton University for Gabriel and Harvard University for Elliott — their similarities are more striking.

Meet our Head Steward for the 2017-2018 school year, Adam Rothman.

As a UCC student who’d recently emigrated from Hungary, Tom Szaky ’01 caught the entrepreneurial bug by observing his peers’ parents. “All these parents in successful businesses opened my eyes in a cool way.”

After 5 years with NHL’s Ottawa Senators, Colin Greening ’05 returned to Toronto and again donned the blue and white colors of UCC. But this time, it was in a Maple Leafs uniform.

Grade 7 student Kevin Liu received a bronze medal in the junior age group at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Regina, Sask. in May 2017.

Jameel Jaffer ’90’s role with the American Civil Liberties Union has put him at the forefront of hot-button topics that have sweeping ramifications around the globe.

Simon Guo ’19 earned Upper Canada College’s first Major League Hacking point when his team placed third and received the SAP Innovation Award at the Electric City Hackathon at Trent University.

These young student-athletes are making a difference at UCC, to the teams they play for and to the peers they inspire, through a program founded by philanthropist and Old Boy Stu Lang.

In 2015, Upper Canada College alumnus Kaleem Hawa ’12 received a Rhodes Scholarships, perhaps the most prestigious academic award in the world.

His work at a refugee camp in Mosul, Iraq was key in helping Darwin Jimal gain entrance to the direct-entry medical program at Queen’s University.

Looking back, Shelby and Dash both admit to a few jitters when Dash entered Grade 1 at the Prep that first day. Shelby couldn’t have anticipated, however, just how radically Dash would “blossom.”