Improving the Environment, one drying rack at a time! Did you know that if you use your dryer five times per week for 52 weeks in the year, you are spending between $50 to $200 per year in electricity? Your dryer accounts for 18% of all electricity used by your household appliances. In deciding on...Read More
Meet Chris Jones! He had ‘work experience’ but didn’t have the ‘certification’ he needed to go with it! He just finished the RAC process with us. He is now fully certified with the cards he needs to work where he wants, how he wants and with whom he wants. Chris didn’t have to do the entire Carpentry program...Read More
On February 13th CVCEC showed their love through “Share your Culture”. The event is organized to give students an opportunity to share cultural and traditional dishes with their fellow students. Students enjoyed a variety of different foods, spices and conversations about traditions and different cultures from which these dishes originated.Read More
Our Carpentry students, Brandon and Fred, performed admirably in the Olympiades québécoises des métiers et des technologies (Montérégie) last week. The experience may have been a little stressful for our students, but it was an even more amazing opportunity to showcase their skills, learn some new tricks and do some professional networking. Congrats to both of...Read More
The WIN-WIN of the Olympiades… Networking, collaboration, exchanging teachers between boards, sharing materials and best practices… this all helps the students! These are a few of the reasons why the “Olympiades” is such a beneficial initiative to take part in. Carpentry teacher Jovan Mercier talks about the benefits of participating in the Olympiades and the...Read More
Carpentry students Brandon Dauphinais and Fred Pengzhi Zhao will be representing CVCEC and the New Frontiers School Board at the “Olympiades québécoises des métiers et des technologies (Montérégie) – Carpentry sector” to be held in Longueuil this upcoming Friday. Brandon and Fred have been training with their teachers for the upcoming challenges they’ll face as they go head-to-head...Read More
Students from the New Frontiers School Board in the Continuing Education department want to say a little something about their teachers… Be sure to check every day this week as we have a little video segment from different students talking about the teachers who make a difference in their lives in order to help them...Read More
At CVCEC, we have the opportunity to welcome guest speakers during the year, but nothing would have prepared us for the presentation from CNESST’s Jonathan Plante. On March 12, 2007, Mr. Plante was working on a house construction site, and wanting to “save time”, didn’t use the precautionary steps one should take… and fell...Read More
A house has to rest on a solid foundation. It is the first and most crucial step of any worksite. Concrete is often a material of choice for foundations. Because it is mixed in a liquid form, a “mold” has to be built in order to create the shape needed when it hardens. This is...Read More
