Katy Warren, a fourth-year electrical engineering student at Memorial University of Newfoundland, earned the title of “Canada’s Smartest Person” after winning the CBC reality television competition of the same name.
Katy Warren, a fourth-year electrical engineering student at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), was crowned Canada’s Smartest Person after successfully beating out her fellow competitors in the finale of the CBC reality television competition show of the same name.
The show, based on the theory of multiple intelligences, sees contestants compete in front of a live studio audience in six intelligence challenges: musical, physical, social, logical, visual and linguistic. Four contestants compete each week, with the weekly winners facing off against each other in the season finale.
Warren, 21, came out on top during the fourth week of the competition, earning her a spot in the finals. Once there, she competed against seven other finalists before besting them and earning herself the title of Canada’s Smartest Person.
Throughout the course of the competition, Warren demonstrated valuable problem-solving skills that will undoubtedly serve her well in an engineering career. And in fact, that may be why she chose to pursue a degree in engineering.
“I’ve always been good at math and fixing stuff,” she said in an interview with the St. John’s Telegram. “I had a teacher in high school that told me maybe I should look into it, and I was like, ‘Yeah, that seems like something I might want to do.’”
“I’ve always liked figuring stuff out.”
