The Horticulture class is in full motion. While they are studying Latin names of plants, they are also starting edible plants and flowers in the greenhouse and monitoring the insect levels. To add to the wide variety of information they are learning, we are also in the midst of the Tool Module. Learning the names,...Read More
Meet Mavis Teye, a student currently completing a DVS (Diploma Vocational Studies) in Accounting at the NOVA Career Centre. Not only does Mavis juggle a family which includes 2 and 5-year-old boys, she is concurrently completing a graduate diploma in Accounting at McGill University! Mavis has chosen to simultaneously complete a DVS and a graduate diploma...Read More
Happy Chinese New Year! Tuesday, February 5th, 2019 marks the beginning of the year of the pig. Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival is celebrated by an estimated 2 billion people annually, including some of our very own HAECC students! In an effort to continue fostering teamwork throughout our community here at...Read More
During each math class, there are students who spend their time working in NOVA’s Skén:nen Centre. After tackling a new concept, the teachers and techs in the Skén:nen Centre spend the last half hour of class discussing the Mohawk names of different students in the centre. Russell, our newest addition to the Indigenous Student Support Team,...Read More
To create awareness about healthy relationships amongst our students at HAECC, our Adult General Education classes will participate, on February 14th, 2019, in a presentation on The Cycle of an Abusive Relationship. This project was created by CVR, Residence-Elle & CISSS-MO, and financed by the ‘’Comité Violence Conjugale et Aggressions Sexuelles du Haut-St-Laurent’’, as well...Read More
The students from the SIS (Social Integration Services) classes from HAECC have been welcomed into many local businesses to carry out stage work. The students put into practice many of the skills they learn in the classroom, such as preparing themselves for the workday, proper conduct in the workplace, communication, following simple and complex instructions...Read More
Nova’s Adult General Education teacher, Andrey Kutash, is offering a lunch hour activity all about celebrating talent. He decided to make it broader than previous years` music clubs in order to cast a wider net and attract more students. It worked! Last week, 12 students participated. The group included the S.I.S. (Social Integration Services) class...Read More
Katharina Orfanidis and Gabriel Internoscia have been students at NOVA since 2017 completing their Advanced Secondary IV and Secondary V Math and Science courses. Incredibly, they are also both students at Dawson College and have been studying at both schools simultaneously with the intention of transferring into Dawson’s Computer Science program. While diligently advancing through...Read More
Chantale Lauzon, a student in our Residential & Commercial Drafting group (Winter-2018), was a physiotherapist who stopped her career to start a family (she has 3 boys – 11, 13, and 16). She attended NFSB’s Trades in Motion in 2014 and was inspired to register for the Residential & Commercial Drafting program as a possible second career....Read More
