Graeme Hopkins knows what it feels like to struggle. The Saskatoon 20-year-old says high school was rough.

"It felt like, almost like Lego. Like I was being disassembled. And so many parts of my identity and my character were being taken away with every struggle and every failure that I went through," he said.

"So I wanted to rebuild that. I wanted to say, 'OK this is a mess, let's clean it up, let's build it back.'"