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AC Co-op honours the best of the best students and employers

AC Co-op students“I would definitely recommend co-op to another employer. It’s definitely the smartest way to hire young people.”

These were the comments of Lynn Ferron, a Principal with architectural firm HOK and a recent recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Algonquin College Cooperative Education Award.

Ferron, an Interiors practice leader at HOK’s Ottawa studio, is one of five Ottawa-area employers to receive the award this year. As well, five students have been honoured with The Cooperative Education Student Achievement Award. You can check out their profiles here.

The Co-op Department hosts the Cooperative Education Awards of Excellence each year to recognize the contributions of co-op employers and learners. This year, however, the annual celebration and awards ceremony had to be postponed because of the COVID-19 crisis. Nonetheless, the department is still pleased to announce the names of the award winners and offer highlights of their experience with the co-op program. Continue reading →

Animation program places in Top 10 in international ranking!

Algonquin CollegeAlgonquin College has been named among the top animation schools in the world in rankings recently published by Animation Career Review.
Algonquin ranks sixth in the world and fourth in Canada in the category of Top Animation Training Programs, according to the website. The Review bases its rankings on a wide range of criteria, including the depth and breadth of the program faculty, value related to tuition and indebtedness, the graduation rate and student employment data.

Student employment was given greater weight in the current rankings than in previous years. According to Professor Neil Hunter, co-coordinator of the Animation program, 96 to 98 per cent of its students find employment upon graduation.
Rachel Scott is one of those happy new animation professionals. Scott graduated this month and is now working for Ottawa’s Jam Filled Entertainment.
“I basically went from school into a great job,” Scott says. “I knew the program had a terrific reputation for getting employment for its grads. But it was still surprising to achieve this, and in the middle of COVID-19 and problems in the economy.” Continue reading →

Pandemic-related poster earns Algonquin student national attention

O Canada, We stand apart for thee graphicLook up, look way up at digital billboards across Ottawa these days and you might see the design work of Algonquin College student Molly Drinnan glowing against the sky.
Drinnan, a first-year student in the Advertising and Marketing Communications Management program, recently completed a class project assigned by Professor Michael Zavacky. He asked his students to create a public service announcement poster related to COVID-19. Originally, the assignment was on a different topic but Zavacky altered it to respond to the most important issue in everyone’s lives today. Drinnan’s bold, vibrantly colourful poster was in part a response to the images that she could already see all around her related to the pandemic. Continue reading →