Coming Together to Conquer COVID-19

• Grade 11 students JT Zhang, Matton Xia, and Timothy Wang raised more than $14,000 with their GoFundMe page to purchase protective equipment for Scarborough Health Network.
• Grade 10 student Christian Alloway is using his 3D printer to make lightweight protective visors that Project Northern Lights will distribute to healthcare workers. Each visor takes 1 hour and 45 minutes to print, and Christian is printing 6-7 a day. He has completed at least 45 face shields to date.
• Grade 8 student Yusef Lum is helping to raise money for an initiative to make 10,000 protective visors for frontline healthcare workers at Michael Garron Hospital.
• Grade 12 student Tristan Sharma raised nearly $7,000 to help families who live in subsidized housing in his neighbourhood. He is purchasing groceries for approximately 50 families who are struggling to put food on the table.
• Jeannie Clark (mother of Grade 5 student Liam Milardi) raised more than $2,000 for the Daily Bread Food Bank, to help the growing number of people who can no longer make ends meet due to the financial impact of the pandemic.
• Grade 9 student Luke Hilborn and his sister baked and delivered dozens of cookies and muffins to the Church of Saint Stephen-In-The-Fields, which provides food for homeless people.
• Grade 11 student Ryan Rakusin distributed e-cards to bring cheerful messages to residents of seniors’s homes in Toronto.
• Grade 9 student Shay Kothari and his mother gave masks and gloves to people in their community so they could go out and shop safely.
• Grade 8 student Connor MacMillan is collecting personal grooming and hygiene products to donate to the Seaton House shelter.
• Crescent's Student Outreach Council members are gathering contributions of baked treats, juice boxes, sandwiches, snacks and fruit and delivering them to downtown shelters.
• A group of Upper School students launched the Marathon For Medics fundraiser to support Sunnybrook Hospital
• Crescent parents Claire Chen and Kevin Teng (a member of the Board of Governors) donated 2,000 PPE masks to Conquer COVID-19

• Thomas Herring ’16 was featured on CTV News for his work with a Rice University engineering team that's designing COVID-19 ventilators. 
• Alumnus Michael Carrier ’08 is making a difference in the pandemic with his GiveAMask initiative. For every mask sold, one mask will be donated to people in need throughout Ontario.
• Michael Yan ’05, Jonathan Norris ’07, David Phillips ’04, Aaron Glazer ’02, Cobi Druxerman ’02 and Andrew Norris ’03 are using their robotics skills for the COVID Box project, designing protective intubation boxes for COVID-19 patients. 
• Dr. Michael Warner ’96, medical director of critical care at Michael Garron Hospital, has been a frequent media guest in reports about the impact of COVID-19. Watch his recent interview with Evan Solomon ’87 on CTV's Question Period.
• Ryley Mehta ’16 is involved in the GIFTForward initiative to help restaurants stay afloat during COVID-19 closures.
• Dr. Kieran Quinn ’01 wrote a Toronto Star article about the positive “caremongering” response to the pandemic.
• Gerald Chan ’99 wrote a Toronto Star article about fighting the anti-Asian prejudice that has emerged during the pandemic.
• Gabriel Leung ’90, Infection Disease Epidemiologist and Dean of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, wrote a New York Times column about the importance of our social distancing efforts.
• Basil Demeroutis ’87 wrote an article in Property Week about how the pandemic is an opportunity to refocus on the importance of family, friends and health.

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