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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS!
 Outdoor Adventure is a two-year skills-intensive, and certification-based diploma program that offers students a broad education in the high adventure travel and tourism industries.
If you want a career where you truly love what you do, this is the program for you! This full-time program is offered at the Ottawa Valley Campus in Pembroke, Ontario, which is surrounded by fantastic natural resources in the beautiful and rugged Ottawa Valley.
Sitting on the shores of the mighty Ottawa River, the campus is in close proximity to world-renowned Algonquin Park, alpine ski hills, and some of North America’s leading outdoor adventure companies. The success of our program can be partly contributed to our business partner, Wilderness Tours.
Our students study at the Pembroke Campus three days a week learning fundamental industry, business and management skills - graduates will have the required business training to step into a supervisory or management role, or start their own adventure or outfitting business.
All practical training takes place at the Wilderness Tours' Beachburg or Mt. Pakenham facility (two days a week). It is during these two days when our students learn the practical aspects of the Outdoor Adventure industry and work towards certification as guides or instructors in their chosen fields.
These practical training activities include whitewater kayaking and rafting, rock and ice climbing, cross country cycling, skiing and snowboarding, and many others. Algonquin College's practical training site at Wilderness Tours also includes the use of cabins, hot tubs, and a variety of other outstanding facilities.
 On top of all this, there are also four multi-day expeditions: rafting in Quebec and Maine; winter camping in the Ottawa Valley; sea kayaking off the Maritime coast; and a self-planned and executed ‘final expedition’. Students also participate in a 10-week summer industry self-directed work term in order to put to use all of their training.Why is Algonquin College the place for your Outdoor Adventure education?
It’s simple: outstanding business partnerships; hands-on, certificate-oriented learning (count the number of ‘bag nights’!); solid business and theoretical foundation; professors and instructors who are experts in their fields, and an amazing natural environment.
Last but not least: outstanding value for the educational dollar. Add up the costs of the individual certificates you can achieve, and you will see that our partnership with Wilderness Tours creates substantial value delivered to you.
Please see the Program of Study web page for actual courses and descriptions.
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