UBC Law student Braden Lauer competing to be Canada’s smartest person
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Ubyssey (The University of British Columbia)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2014/10/01
Braden Lauer is competing to be Canada’s Smartest Person
UBC Law student Braden Lauer is vying for the title of the smartest person in Canada.
Hosted by Jessi Cruickshank and Jeff Douglas, Canada’s Smartest Person is a CBC show that aims to get rid of the idea that you need a high IQ to be smart and has contestants compete against each other in a series of musical, physical, social, logical, visual and linguistic intelligence categories.
These six categorizations of intelligence derive from the Multiple Intelligences Theory of Professor Howard Gardner of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.
Lauer, who went to University of Alberta for his commerce degree and is now going into his second year at UBC Law, applied for Canada’s Smartest Personon a whim in the middle of a downturn in studying for law examinations.
“I was in the middle of exams last semester,” said Lauer. “The middle of first-year exams, which are considered the hell, so to speak, of Law school, is terrible. I saw a commercial on TV and was feeling down on myself.”
As a result, Lauer decided it would be interesting to apply to the show and see if he would be selected.
“In a very sassy way, I filled out an application,” said Lauer. “From there forward, I went through a pretty long process until they called me to be 1 of 32.”
According to Lauer, the turning point of his audition came from his big smile.
The show has a total of 32 participants, with four of them going head-to-head each week. At the end of nine weeks, there will be a competition among the finalists, with the winner being announced in November.
While the show was filmed over the course of the summer, contestants are not allowed to comment on the results until the final episode is released.
Still, Lauer is confident that the show will prove to be both interesting and surprising in the weeks to come.
“Winning is in the cards for me,” said Lauer.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article stated that the show has been filmed over the course of two days in August. It has actually been filmed over the course of the whole summer. The article has been updated to reflect this fact.
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