The NOVA Career Centre has a new basketball team that has burst onto the scene. A sports team at a vocational school is a rather unique entity in the province. Students from a multitude of programs have now joined forces to create the first ever NOVA basketball team in the school’s history. Head coach (and...Read More

Santa Claus needed help! His North Pole Workshop was going through some renovations, therefore students in the Interior Decorating and Visual Display program stepped in to lend him a helping hand. Teacher Barbara Walter and a few of our international students created a winter wonderland backdrop for Santa while he had 30 minute video-conference conversations...Read More

Howard S. Billings Regional High School celebrated their annual observance of Remembrance Day with activities such as a play, a special service and a luncheon for local Veterans. For this occasion, the HSB’s SWAT (Students Working Artistically Together) Drama team partnered with the NOVA Career Centre’s Hairdressing program. The HSB student actors playing a wide...Read More

To celebrate the season at NOVA there was a Christmas event December 10th at lunch time.The Student Advisory committee treated all staff & students with hot beverages, cake, cookies and good cheer. Not only that, a band made up of our teacher, Mr. Kutash and some students filled the room with great music and some...Read More

This is what’s going on in NOVA Auto! November 28th saw the largest crowd of automotive instructors ever to attend one of our bi- annual GM Training Seminars. Thirty six instructors from four different school boards gathered in our shop to learn from Algonquin College’s Lead GM ASEP Instructor Randy Scott. The topic of the...Read More

This is our first HOW TO video! We shall showcase different segments of “How to…” over the next year with experts from our vocational programs. In this first segment, Derek Stacey, a teacher from our Auto Mechanics department will explain the proper technique to change a tire and we’ll give you a few helpful hints...Read More

Our Starting a Business program offered in partnership with College MAC, in Montreal, continues to grow and grow. In a little over a year we have graduated over 120 students with a ASP (attestation de spécialisation professionnelle) in the Starting a Business program. Many of our students have now established their own business, are working for themselves...Read More

A couple of week ago, I received a phone call from a one hundred year old lady asking to have a perm done at the Nova hairdressing salon. The lady said that she could walk with the help of a cane and a walker. Over the phone, she told me that it was too bad...Read More

Teachers in the Secretarial and Accounting programs hosted a ‘Welcome to Nova’ pizza lunch for the two new groups that started in September and October and for the senior group that had started in January. The goal was to be able to introduce the three groups to each other in a social setting, while encouraging...Read More

If you have ever driven by or walked in front of the NOVA Career Centre, you may have noticed the front window display. Our students in the Interior Decorating and Visual Display program prepared “An Art Gallery in Perspective” by creating a scale model of the concept. They then built and installed the real life...Read More