update NOVA Career Centre We had a small contained fire in our Auto Mechanics department. The building was evacuated as per security protocol and the firefighters came to ensure the situation was safe to return for our students and staff. Everyone is back in the building and we are back to business as usual.Lire la suite

Voici l'article du Montreal Gazette http://montrealgazette.com/news/vocational-students-in-ormstown-build-homes-and-skills  Lire la suite

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...Lire la suite

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...Lire la suite

Imaginez votre premier jour d'école de menuiserie. Vous avez peut-être déjà une certaine expérience, mais, comme la plupart des étudiants, c'est peut-être l'une de vos premières occasions de travailler avec du bois. Vous ferez la plupart des choses pour la première fois. Alors, imaginez un an...Lire la suite

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...Lire la suite

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...Lire la suite

James et Simon, deux étudiants en menuiserie, nous expliquent pourquoi ils sont si enthousiastes et reconnaissants de poursuivre leurs études tout en aidant la communauté. Et si vous avez manqué nos épisodes précédents, n'hésitez pas à les consulter dans notre : Galerie vidéo "Notre maison" - où vous trouverez les premiers...Lire la suite

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...Lire la suite

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...Lire la suite