Welding teacher and NOVA graduate Jonathan W.J Shang is our latest Alumni Corner success story. Welding student Jin Shang is our newest edition to our Student Voices video section. Their stories fit perfectly together, to showcase the reasons “why welding is worth it”. We decided to mash-up the two stories into a blended Alumni +...Read More
In an effort to better understand the art of visual display and window dressing the Winter 2015 Day group and I took to the malls of downtown Montreal. Our journey started underground in Les Cours Mont-Royal going through all four floors. Then followed through to Carrefour Industrielle Alliance where we took our time examining the...Read More
Michael Moore, a teacher in the Interior Design and Visual Display program, has been honoured – again! He recently won the 2015 ASID Design Award in the Small Residential Design category for a kitchen he designed for a couple who live in a townhouse in Outremont. Where does his passion come from? “From a very early age I knew...Read More
Again this year NOVA hosted a Héma-Québec Blood Drive. But our 2015 edition had a different twist than our previous years. Our RV shop used to host the event, but that was no longer possible this year, since that area is now… a welding shop! So Héma-Québec offered to use their mobile unit (called Globule!)....Read More
This year again, NOVA participated in the Annual HSB/NOVA Community Barbecue. Ray Ledoux (School Board Commissioner) and his team managed once again to make the event memorable. The weather was fantastic and this year the BBQ was held in conjunction with the “Festival des Arts de la Rue” (multiple partners, which included our Chateauguay CLC)...Read More
A huge thank you to K103.7 Radio from Kahnawake! K103 welcomed us on their lunch hour Partyline Talk Show in order for us to talk about our services and programs. Reaching out to the communities we serve is important for us, in order to inform families about the services available to them. Chuck Halliday, Development...Read More
To make sure he could pick a career path he really wanted, Marc Poissant registered at the NOVA Career and Adult Education Center where he completed enriched Math and Science with success. Marc then chose Computer Science at Dawson College from which he graduated last Spring while receiving the “Highest Academic Achievement” award, meaning he...Read More
“I used to hate going to school but when I was at NOVA, I’d wake up in the morning… “Yes! I have to go to school” – Best year and a half of my life!” Learning Automobile mechanics changed Mike’s life. Watch our latest edition of the Alumni Corner. Read More
Our international student population at the NOVA Career Centre has grown exponentially over the last two years. We are receiving more and more requests from international students who wish to study a vocational program in Chateauguay. As more and more students come to our centres we are becoming internationally known as one of the hot-spots...Read More
During this steamy summer the Interior Decorating and Visual Display Department’s senior students have been hard at work in our huge display window! As part of our Promotional Space Competency the students and I decided to hold the 1st “Nova Design Contest”. The students gained the experience of researching the finer details of holding a...Read More
