Student Success

Animation graduate wins big at Los Angeles Animation Festival

Congratulations to Thanh Ngo, a 2024 graduate from our Animation program who recently won the Student International Character-Based 2D award at the 2024 Los Angeles Animation Festival.

Ngo won with the short film Ma Mao, which can be watched in full below.

The Los Angeles Animation Festival is “the country’s leading international animation festival since 2007” and is “dedicated to helping indie and student filmmakers.”

Algonquin College student wins international World Design Organization competition

An Algonquin College learner has won an international competition hosted by World Design Organization (WDO), earning admission to the 34th World Design Congress in London, UK. Laura Avila, a Level 02 student in the Interdisciplinary Studies in Human-Centred Design program, partnered with three other students in North Macedonia, the United States and India to compete in the WDO design sprint under the theme Heritage in Motion: Defining the Future by Design.

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