Monica Sethi

A team comprising ten eleventh- and twelfth-grade Princess Margaret Secondary School students has qualified for NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC). They are one of the 72 teams globally and the only team from Canada to qualify for this challenge, which involves creating a human-powered rover capable of navigating Moon and Mars-like terrains, accommodating two individuals, and folding into a compact 5" x5" cube for transport to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.

In April 2023, Ashlyen Singh won the BC School Sports Women in Sports & Leadership Award, recognizing their commitment to student-athletes and school sports. As someone who benefited significantly from sports, it's been their endeavour to ensure that all children have access to high-quality sports.

It's no secret that there has been an ongoing crisis at the Surrey Memorial Hospital (SMH), with the hospital infrastructure bursting at its seams and unable to provide the standard of care that Surrey residents deserve.