As an all-volunteer group of alumni, former teachers and parents, it is our great pleasure to recognize students and fund numerous students activities. Our work is moved by a simple yet powerful idea: students thrive when we invest.
The Foundation Oversees 40+ Scholarships Awarded to Graduating Students
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The NSS Foundation's activities include: Awarding Grants to an array of student groups, overseeing 40+ Scholarships awarded to graduating students, facilitating charitable donations directed to specific student groups, and the creative work of building Alumni Connections.
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Did you know that Northern was the first high school in Toronto to have a students' council? The school's vibrance and inclusive heart was put in motion from the very start. Past, present and future, these are our stories.
Northern’s Locker Murals Are A Visual Extravaganza Pt II
This is the second instalment of Northern’s Locker Murals. Northern’s hallowed halls are alive with colour, empowering themes and the faces of great Canadians. Enjpy!
Vivienne Sze – MIT Prof + Role Model for Women in Computing
Vivienne Sze NSS'99 is a Professor at MIT, has developed image + video standards for your smartphone, and she designs AI chips for healthcare + robotics. Wow.
Neil Lumsden – From Grey Cup Champion to Cabinet Minister
Life-changing advice from NSS Coach Pulford, the lessons of being a Grey Cup Champion, and bringing a vision of leadership to his role as cabinet minister
Ali Velshi – The Seeds of Journalistic Success
MSNBC broadcaster and author, Ali Velshi, speaks with Jason Hughes about running for NSS Student Affairs Council, changing careers, and following your heart
Daniel Adeboboye – Watch This Guy Run
Former Red Knight standout running back Daniel Adeboboye sits down with Joe Pascucci to talk about his rookie 2022 Grey Cup Championship season with the Argos
Red Knights Capture Jr. and Sr. Football Championships!
An amazing 2022 season for both the Junior and Senior Red Knights football teams. Sam Laskaris spoke with both head coaches about their wins.
HERE ARE THIS year's
nssf grant recipients:
The Northern Bike Club is working towards set-up of a fully equipped bike repair and safe bike storage room at NSS.
The Model UN Club will be using funds to attend 2 Model UN conferences.
The Northern Music Council will be using funds to bring in a series of professional musicians to enhance musical education.
From Louis Hobson
class of 1999
Congratulations on graduating from Northern Secondary. Regardless of where your varied endeavours may take you next, you’ll forever be linked to Northern and to your fellow classmates .... Make no mistake, these are difficult times. These times feel different because these times are different. Yet I’ve never been more optimistic about our collective futures because of the role you’ll play in it ...
From Louis Hobson
class of 1999
Louis is Senior Vice President, North America Flood Insurance at Chubb, the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company. He is a graduate of Stanford University, with a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA. He is a former Stanford football player and member of Stanford’s 2000 Rose Bowl team.
Congratulations on Graduating from Northern Secondary
Regardless of where your varied endeavors may take you next, you’ll forever be linked to Northern and to your fellow classmates. The prior graduating classes from Northern Secondary School have been confident, competent, and resilient – and the same is true of this class, the Class of 2020.
Through graduation, you attained the enviable position of getting to choose and pursue an honorable profession, be it an actor, bus driver, doctor, engineer, foreman, lawyer, musician, plumber, sales clerk, etc. Whatever professional vocation you chose, rest assured the formative and relevant skills you developed and honed at Northern have prepared you well.
The world needs you. We need your discerning, critical thinking. We need your strong, courageous and intelligent leadership. We need your undiscouraged persistence. We need your unyielding pursuit of what’s just and fair and right.
There is a forgivable temptation to evaluate your pending contributions to society through the lens of your to-be professional vocations. It is natural.
However, if we are to solve the current and prevailing challenges, it’s so very important, now more than ever, to excel in the common, civic vocations we all hold. Before and above all else, we are citizens in the communities we live and members of families, both large and small, which span generations. When inevitably confronted with consequential decisions, affecting both your communities and your families, make moral choices, the ones that withstand the test of time.
Make no mistake, these are difficult times. These times feel different because these times are different. Yet I’ve never been more optimistic about our collective futures because of the role you’ll play in it. So go out and have the audacity to think you can make a meaningful, lasting difference, then hold an unwavering commitment and belief to prove yourself right.
Through graduation, you attained the enviable position of getting to choose and pursue an honorable profession, be it an actor, bus driver, doctor, engineer, foreman, lawyer, musician, plumber, sales clerk, etc. Whatever professional vocation you chose, rest assured the formative and relevant skills you developed and honed at Northern have prepared you well.
The world needs you. We need your discerning, critical thinking. We need your strong, courageous and intelligent leadership. We need your undiscouraged persistence. We need your unyielding pursuit of what’s just and fair and right.
There is a forgivable temptation to evaluate your pending contributions to society through the lens of your to-be professional vocations. It is natural.
However, if we are to solve the current and prevailing challenges, it’s so very important, now more than ever, to excel in the common, civic vocations we all hold. Before and above all else, we are citizens in the communities we live and members of families, both large and small, which span generations. When inevitably confronted with consequential decisions, affecting both your communities and your families, make moral choices, the ones that withstand the test of time.
Make no mistake, these are difficult times. These times feel different because these times are different. Yet I’ve never been more optimistic about our collective futures because of the role you’ll play in it. So go out and have the audacity to think you can make a meaningful, lasting difference, then hold an unwavering commitment and belief to prove yourself right.