Since December, Option students are participating in robotics classes to improve their problem solving, time management, teamwork (peer co-operation) and planning skills. Students have gained more confidence with the new skills they’ve learned and feel more prepared them to undertake more difficult tasks.Read More

A few of our students from the Options Class worked on disassembling and reassembling a Briggs and Stratton snowblower engine, last Fall. The students had the opportunity to identify the major components of a 4 cycle engine and learned about the basic functioning of the engine as well. The students began to follow an online...Read More

GRATITUDE/CARING PILLAR/ALTRUISM and COOPERATION Last Fall, students from the Option Class joined the United Church Organization in Huntingdon to help out for their “Pie Bee” fundraising event. The teams of busy bees were making apple, cherry, blueberry and raisin pies and were bagging, sorting and distributing them. The final count of total pies made that day...Read More

Paint brushes in hand and a vision of a rejuvenated and relaxing space, our Horticulture class embarked on creating an indoor tropical garden in the cafeteria. Through brain sprouting and collaboration, we came up with some core ideas for the space: birch branches, fixing ceiling tiles, making benches to increase seating and updating tables with...Read More

On December 9th, 2016, Laurier Macdonald Career Centre hosted a CEN (Centre of Expertise Network) workshop on the latest trends in the Hairdressing industry. Nova Career Centre, Gordon Robertson’s Beauty Academy and Laurier Macdonald’s  hairdressers participated in three Professional Development activities, the choices were: SmartBond Systems (Melissa Tedeschi, L’ Oréal Professional) , Afro-centric Hair (Sonia...Read More

Our Fall semester finished up last month and our students took a well deserved rest. As per usual our Holiday/Christmas spirit is strong at HAECC. We held our annual turkey meal with all the trimmings for all of our students to enjoy. Carolling was also part of the festivities with teachers, staff and students singing...Read More

What a wonderful experience it was to work with the evening group of students on their final Window Display! Being their last visual display project of the program, students were asked to create a Window Display to be set up in our NOVA Window Display by following given directions. Since NOVA is a Pokéstop and...Read More

This month, some of our drafting students visited the J Dagenais Architecte enterprise,  located on Boulevard D’Anjou in Chateauguay. An eight minute walkthrough was enough to speak to Judith, an Architectural Technologist. Passionate, she introduced us to the profession of draftsman by telling us her personal journey and throughout her story, the students asked questions and were very...Read More

In the Drafting Department we know that sharing information, experiences, opinions make us “richer”, and we do indeed implement this in our teaching methods. It was an evening at the NOVA Career Centre when 4 drafting groups met in one classroom. The senior students (guided by their teacher Allan Skazyk) just came back from their...Read More

Jolly green Giant? I was given a Christmas cactus in full bloom 2 years ago and it never bloomed again. How do I make it bloom again? Do you want this? This is a common question. Many people put it in their kitchen or living room window and in many cases it never blooms again....Read More