Coming to school abroad can be an amazing experience. Brenda, one of International Student graduated in the Interior Decorating and Visual Display program explains how her experience went.Lire la suite

Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life! Just ask Stephen Mish, the owner of Les Fabrications MishFits if he is living his dream? He will be the first to tell you, he wouldn’t change a thing (except ride his mountain bike a bit more often). In this Alumni Corner,...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

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

As the pedagogical consultant for Adult and vocational education, I thought it would be beneficial to spend some time in the shops to get  a better picture of what goes on in the auto mechanics and welding programs at Nova Career Centre. My hat goes off to the teachers of these programs and the dedication...Lire la suite

The journey to becoming a teacher has been an exciting challenge. As a new teacher at Nova Career Centre in the Interior Decorating and Display Department, I have tried to draw upon my field experience in design. I have designed private jets for Bombardier, worked on high-end and historic residential design projects and run my own design business...Lire la suite

This Fall semester marks a new beginning for our Adult General Education program at the NOVA Career Centre as, upon popular demand, we are offering physical education to our adult learners. The class is being team taught by two physical education specialists, Steve Principe and Max Audette. Our students are exploring the world of team...Lire la suite

La Commission scolaire New Frontiers et le CRA (Centre d'aide et de référence en santé et services sociaux) sont fiers d'annoncer que, grâce à un partenariat avec le Collège de Valleyfield, le cours gratuit d'aidant naturel utilisera désormais un laboratoire de l'Hôpital Anna-Laberge pour la partie pratique du cours. Jusqu'à présent, le...Lire la suite

  Êtes-vous un aidant ? Ou peut-être êtes-vous en train de le devenir ? Un aidant naturel est une personne qui prend soin d'un membre de sa famille, d'un ami ou d'un voisin. Ce rôle non rémunéré est extrêmement précieux et a un réel impact physique, émotionnel et social sur vous et sur la personne que vous aidez, mais il peut...Lire la suite