Academic Success

Are you looking to improve your academic performance? This segment of the blog will have advice and workshop opportunities to help you with your academic experience at AC!

Connor Gunn wins silver at the Skills Canada National Competition in Vancouver

Connor Gunn wins silver in Automotive Service at Vancouver’s Skills Canada National Competition.

Skills Competences Canada (SCC) has been hosting the National Competition (SCNC) since 1994. Since then, it has grown into one of the world’s largest technical skills testing competitions, encompassing over 75 disciplines from Masonry to Cloud computing.

All 13 provinces and territories are represented by their own provincial branch of Skills Canada and hold their provincial competitions to qualify their competitors for the National level. There are both Secondary school and post-secondary categories in most competition areas.
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EXTENDED – Double your impact! Give to the Rainbow Bursary today to have your gift matched

A name change in Ontario costs $137 and takes anywhere from six to eight weeks for processing. With 2022 Spring Convocation just 10 weeks away, learners who want their credentials to match their authentic selves need to act now. You can help them – today – by supporting the AC Rainbow Bursary.

The AC Rainbow Bursary helps 2SLGBTQ+ with anything they need to feel secure and supported.

Established during Pride Month 2021 by School of Business professor Angela Lyrette, the AC Rainbow Bursary provides financial assistance to students who identify as 2SLGBTQ+, with special consideration given to students who identify as Black, Indigenous, disabled, trans and/or non-binary. Students may use the bursary to purchase books, supplies, gender-affirming clothing or basic necessities, for example.

In support of International Day of Pink — a worldwide anti-bullying and anti-homophobia awareness campaign which takes place April 13 — Algonquin College will match Rainbow Bursary donations up to $3,000 until April 20, 2022

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