A Grade 11 student at Winnipeg's Sisler High School will tour Ottawa this weekend after acing a citizenship test from Historica Canada.

Historica Canada issues the Citizenship Challenge every year, and students who get 100 per cent on mock citizenship tests get a shot at going to Ottawa.

This year, Jia Garcia won the honour.

"Our teacher gave us the test in the morning, and we could do it for 24 hours," said Garcia, referring to teacher Orysya Petryshyn. "We learned a lot of the topics in class already."

Garcia leaves for Ottawa this weekend.

"I'm really excited about it," she said. "We're going to tour some museums and the Parliament Hill.… We'll get to learn more about Canada and the government."

She's originally from the Philippines and has spent the last six years in Canada.

Garcia helped her own mom pass her citizenship test two years ago, and she chose her mom to join her on the trip to Ottawa.

"It's a blessing, I think. I never expected to win. I just tried it, got the mark, and I never expected I'd win, because there's thousands of others trying the test," she said.

And while she excels at history, she said she actually plans to go into architecture or engineering when she grows up.