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
To my friends at NFSB, I wanted to say how fortunate I was to have spoken to the 24 separate groups of students, over the course of 5-days, from 10 different schools & Centres ranging from PreK & Kindergarten students to my special friends in the Sunshine Class at HAECC. I will always cherish each...Read More
Ok, imagine your first day of school in carpentry. Maybe you have already some experience under your belt, but, like most of the students, it might be one of your first opportunities to work with wood. Most of what you will do, you will be doing it for the first time. Then, imagine one year...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
Before coming to Canada, I was a teacher who worked at the university. The reason that I came to study in Canada is that I wanted to break through the bottleneck of my work, gain further training, hone my skills in the English language and have a larger and better education platform. I got to...Read More
James and Simon, two Carpentry students, let us know why they are so excited and grateful to be getting their education and helping out the community at the same time. And if you’ve missed our previous episodes, be sure to check them out in our: “Our House” Video Gallery – where you’ll find the first...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
***LISTEN TO HIS INTERVIEW HERE*** Our Carpentry teacher John Hodges was interviewed by CBC Radio, to talk about the Our House Project. He did a masterful job, to explain the project and the progress he, the other teachers and the students are having during the build of our LEED & Habitat for Humanity project. Read More
