A short line on Maria Plachta’s c.v. speaks volumes about her talent as a scholar.  As a senior school student in her native Poland, Maria graduated with such high distinction that she won free entrance to any university program of her choice without having to write an entrance examination.
Among Maria's accomplishments in Poland, after completing University, was co-writing the Polish curriculum for computer science, an effort for which she won a Ministry of Education award.
After teaching physics, mathematics and computer science for several years in Poland, Maria came to Canada, joining the staff of Brother Andre Catholic H.S. in Markham in 1991. She moved to Woburn C.I. in Scarborough in 1993 where she currently teaches computer science and computer engineering.
During her teaching years in Toronto, Maria has encouraged her students to improve their computing skills through enrichment programs and competitions. Her students have rewarded her efforts by bringing home an impressive list of medals from international contests. She added to those challenges by co-creating and running the Woburn Collegiate Computer Contest.
 Maria might be called a renaissance woman. In addition to her talent for mathematics and computer science, she is a hiker and traveller, and has a keen interest in religious studies, gardening, literature and art.