Delegates to an Ottawa gathering of the brightest young leaders from around the world will be on the Algonquin College campus on Friday to attend workshops and a dinner at Restaurant International.
The break-out sessions at the college follow two days of presentations, panel discussions and networking breaks at the main event centre. Twenty-seven delegates are to attend the college-organized workshop on indigenous entrepreneurship and another 18 will explore the energy infrastructure transformation happening at the college at a Siemens-sponsored workshop.
Delegates from both workshops will gather for dinner at Restaurant International prepared by students in the Indigenous Pre-Apprenticeship program.
Before moving into their sessions, the delegates will be welcomed to the college by Ron McLester, Executive Director and Special Advisor to the President on Aboriginal Initiatives, and Cheryl, who will offer opening remarks.
Founded in 2009 in Britain, the One Young World summit bring together leaders aged 18 to 30 from governments, companies, universities and NGOs and other organizations worldwide along with world leaders to make connections and explore solutions for pressing world issues. Past summits have been held in Bangkok, Dublin, Johannesburg, Pittsburgh, Zurich and London.
The four-day gathering in Ottawa is drawing delegates from 196 countries.
Among the world leaders scheduled to attend the Ottawa summit are Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, former U.S. secretary general Kofi Annan, Canadian Olympic gold medalist Mark Tewksbury, singer and Oscar-winning actress Cher, musician and former child soldier, Emmanuel Jal, WE Movement co-founder Marc Kielburger, actress and activist Emma Watson and musician and political activist Sir Bob Geldof.
U.S. Ambassador Bruce Heyman joined Chef Bob Gelinas and two of his students in the Algonquin College kitchens on Monday, where he engaged in some “food diplomacy.”
The ambassador, whose relaxed manner and off-the-cuff joke easily engaged the students and others gathered for the event, was on campus to promote American produce. He was welcomed to the college by Vice-President Academic Claude Brulé.
Before beginning to cook, Heyman made a few remarks, saying Canada and the United States enjoy the largest bilateral trading relationship in the world, worth more than $40 billion every year.
He pointed in particular to nuts, cheese and tomatoes, the latter of which were ingredients in the tomato tart he prepared with the help of second-year students, Mathew Ju and Thomas Ferraton.
Heyman prepared a tomato tart, which included a pastry base, custard, spinach, Florida tomatoes and an Asiago-style cheese from Wisconsin.
After the tart was prepared, Heyman asked Gelinas a few questions about the culinary program at the college, mentioning that he would be eating the tomato tart and a second appetizer to be served this evening service at Restaurant International.
“What a tough job,” the ambassador joked, to which Gelinas replied, ”Somebody’s got to do it.”
Once the tart was prepared, the ambassador toured other parts of the School of Hospitality, and spoke with
On his arrival, Heyman was greeted by Chef Cory Haskins, who served two U.S. ambassadors as executive chef and who is now the co-ordinator of all culinary programs at the college.
He said it’s great to have the ambassador visit, both for the culinary program and for the students.
“It’s fantastic,” he said. “It’s always great to have dignitaries visit.”
Photo:Students Mathew Ju and Thomas Ferraton, left and second left, prepared a tomato tart with U.S. Ambassador Bruce Heyman, under the direction of Algonquin Chef Bob Gelinas, right.
OTTAWA — Algonquin College is honoured to welcome U.S. Ambassador to Canada Bruce A. Heyman to its Ottawa campus on Monday, Sept. 26, 2016.
Ambassador Heyman will be visiting Algonquin College’s School of Hospitality and Tourism, where he will meet students in our culinary programs and collaborate with Algonquin Chef Robert Gelinas to prepare a special meal featuring American produce.
“We are honoured to welcome Ambassador Heyman to our campus and our kitchens,” said Algonquin College President Cheryl Jensen. “Our culinary program has produced many celebrated alumni who can be found managing kitchens in several embassies right here in Ottawa and in some of the best restaurants around the world.”
Ambassador Heyman is a strong advocate of food diplomacy as a means to create people-to-people connections and to demonstrate the importance of U.S.-Canada agricultural trade.
“Food is a fantastic way to bring people together, and it’s a particularly good way to celebrate the strong relationship between the United States and Canada. Our two countries are each other’s largest export markets for agricultural products. We exchange more than $42 billion in agricultural goods every year. I look forward to working with Algonquin’s student chefs to highlight the safety, quality, and value that our U.S. producers offer. I know from personal experience how talented Algonquin grads are because Chef Dino Ovcaric, the chef at my official residence, went to Algonquin,” said Ambassador Heyman.
Ambassador Heyman will be greeted by Chef Cory Haskins, himself a former Executive Chef to the United States ambassador, now the coordinator of all culinary programs at the College.
“We encourage our students to experiment with ingredients from around the world,” said Chef Haskins, “so we are thrilled to be able to host Ambassador Heyman and have him tell us about fresh U.S. ingredients that we can incorporate into our work.”
Algonquin College is home to more than 2,000 international students from 90 different countries, including the United States. The College also has a series of pathway agreements with American post-secondary institutions to facilitate cross-border studies for students from the United States and Canada.
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When: Monday, Sept. 26, 2016 Where: Algonquin College, Ottawa Campus, 1385 Woodroffe Ave. Location: Philip Killeen Hospitality Centre, Building H, Room H125 Time: Media should plan to arrive at 11:45 a.m. Official visit will begin at noon. Parking: Outside Restaurant International RSVP: Ruth Dunley, dunleyr@algonquincollege.comFor Algonquin College:
Ruth Dunley, Communications Officer
Public Relations and Communications, Algonquin College
Office: 613-727-4723 ext. 6452
Mobile: 613-406-0970 dunleyr@algonquincollege.com
For U.S. Embassy Ottawa:
Nicole Wootten, Media Assistant
U.S. Embassy, Ottawa
Office: 613-688-5316 woottennb@state.gov
The mission of Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology is to transform hopes and dreams into lifelong success. Algonquin College, an Ontario public sector community college, does this by offering hands-on, digitally connected, experiential learning in more than 185 programs. Based in the Ottawa Valley, Algonquin College is the largest polytechnic institute in Eastern Ontario.
Find out what you need to know about the C building construction project at our new website See Us Grow, at algonquincollege.com/cusgrow.
You’ll find out what the project’s all about and who’s moving and where to. Look for our “disruption forecast” that will offer daily updates about disruptions to your usual pathways around the college.
This week, you’ll see that the Library is on the move, with some disruption to the current space on Wednesday and Thursday and the move beginning Friday evening. The Library will reopen in its new space on Wednesday, September 28.
You can also watch See Us Grow for stories about the people who are making this project happen, and the hopes it raises for the future.
And you can sign up for a weekly newsletter that will draw on the stories posted on See Us Grow.
Ottawa Life magazine has put Cheryl on its 2016 list of Top 25 People in the Capital. The magazine called Cheryl “a transformational force” at the college, and credited her with raising the college’s profile in the community.
“A lover of innovation and excellence, Jensen has reached out to governments and other post-secondary institutions in the city, and has developed partnerships with businesses small and large,” the magazine says in its profile.
Cheryl also told the magazine that the people of Ottawa made transition to this city from her hometown of Hamilton an easy one.
“Everything about the city is to me extremely appealing,” the magazine quotes them as saying. “But the fact that I was made to feel at home so quickly has just been an absolutely wonderful experience.”
To read the full profile, click here and go to page 29.
IgniteAC hosted an open house last week welcoming 175 visitors to learn about and open up discussions on innovation and entrepreneurship at the college.
“This week was so exciting — to see and speak to all the students at the college who were interested in innovation and entrepreneurship and to give them insight into all the ways that we can help them,” said AC Entrepreneurship Manager Leanna Verrucci. “Our goal at the centre is that anyone who walks through our doors, be they students, faculty or staff, leave with an answer to their question. If we are unable to help them through the people, programs and resources that we have here at the college, then we direct them to who can help them in the larger Ottawa ecosystem.”
Open house week offered students help to understand the offerings available to them and hear about personal experiences shared by four SUMMIT2016 graduates; Godfrey Joekumar (Startup Algonquin and BookPort), Len Bunce (Safe Point), Patrick Mahaffy (Go-Free), and Gillian Cochrane (Ottawa EcoDome).
SUMMIT is a three-month summer entrepreneurship boot camp designed to offer students workshops, offsite events, funding, mentoring, and the confidence to move their ideas forward.
“The most helpful thing I got from Summit was meeting my mentor,” explains SUMMIT2016 graduate Len Bunce. “She was helpful and pushed me a lot. She was instrumental in my making progress.”
“You might fail, you will probably fail — learn from that mistake and keep going forward. Everyone here wants to help and that’s the beauty of this,” said SUMMIT2016 graduate and Startup Launchpad founder Godfrey Joekumar when asked about his experience with the IgniteAC Centre.
Andrew Foti, Executive in Residence and Chris Doré, Entrepreneur in Residence, both known as EIRs, were also available during open hours last week to answer questions and provide guidance to interested entrepreneurs.
“It’s a huge step in the right direction. Creating the environment where students can come in with creative and innovative ideas, and then implement them in the real world. A lot of people come in here with a big idea, but no direction. We have a ton of services that help guide them,” said Doré when asked how IgniteAC has impacted the college’s entrepreneurship resources. “There are people here that have these dreams and that’s what this centre is about — fulfilling these dreams and giving them a shot to achieve something better than themselves.”
Doré will continue to be available in the centre for “Ask the EIR” open hour sessions on Wednesdays from 12 to 3 p.m. and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. beginning the week of September 12th.
The centre is tangible evidence of the college’s commitment to EXPOSE, ENGAGE and ENABLE innovation and entrepreneurship. IgniteAC is a hub that provides co-ordinated, integrated and seamless services to students and faculty who have curiosity or aspirations around entrepreneurship to ensure they have access to the range of people, programs, partnerships, education and resources available to them within the College and the wider Ottawa ecosystem.
This diverse ecosystem consists of people and organizations such as; Startup Garage, Lead to Win, L-Spark, Invest Ottawa, The HUB, YENGO, TIE Ottawa, Collab Space— to name a few — who help support young entrepreneurs and innovators in Ottawa.
The IgniteAC Centre launched in February 2016 and is located on “Main Street” in the C Building of the Ottawa campus. It offers three boardrooms and two areas for entrepreneurs to congregate and work. Space will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis and available for entrepreneurship-related activities — starting a business, moving a business forward, meeting with clients.
“Ignite” your spark at Algonquin College’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (C151).
Aug. 11, 2016 (Ottawa) — The Algonquin College Board of Governors has directed senior management to take steps for the transfer of responsibility of the Algonquin College Saudi Arabia campus back to Colleges of Excellence.
“After more than a year of negotiation, we were unable to come to an agreement that would have met our financial objectives,” said Algonquin College President Cheryl Jensen. “We have said from the beginning that the Jazan Campus must be financially viable for us to continue operating.”
Algonquin College Saudi Arabia is announcing this decision now to ensure Saudi officials have sufficient time to complete the transfer before students begin the fall term on Sept. 18.
In 2009, Algonquin College was among several educational delegations from around the world that had answered Saudi Arabia’s call for expertise in educational reforms in that country, working with representatives from government and education sectors to raise the profile of vocational learning opportunities.
In 2013, Algonquin College Saudi Arabia was one of many international post-secondary institutions to submit a bid to operate a campus for men and women — it won the right to operate the Jazan campus for men for a five-year term.
Colleges of Excellence is the Saudi authority responsible for establishing relationships with more than a dozen post-secondary institutions from around the world. These international schools have aided the Kingdom’s bid to expand applied training, particularly in the trades, to satisfy the growing need for skilled workers in the desert country.
The Jazan campus, which opened in 2013, is part of a broader international portfolio that is an overall net contributor to Algonquin College.
Algonquin College Saudi Arabia estimates the transfer of operations will cost approximately $4.3 million, which will be funded through existing International and Ancillary contingency reserve funds.
Doug Wotherspoon, Vice-President, International and Strategic Planning, noted the College will not draw on any taxpayer dollars.
“International operations at the College are not funded by the provincial government,” said Wotherspoon. “I think it’s important that taxpayers understand that revenues from other non-funded operations will offset any losses incurred by our Jazan campus.”
There will be no implications for Algonquin College’s employees and operations in Canada.
“Our goal is to work with Colleges of Excellence to ensure a smooth transition,” said Wotherspoon. “We want to provide Colleges of Excellence time to accommodate students’ needs before we fully withdraw from the campus.”
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The mission of Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology is to transform hopes and dreams into lifelong success. Algonquin College, an Ontario public sector community college, does this by offering hands-on, digitally connected, experiential learning in more than 185 programs. Based in the Ottawa Valley, Algonquin College is the largest polytechnic institute in Eastern Ontario.
Jazz Aviation LP is pleased to announce a further commitment to Canada’s future professional pilots with a renewed agreement between the airline’s Jazz Aviation Pathway Program (“Jazz APP”) and Algonquin College’s Aviation Management – General Arts and Science program.
“We’re pleased to continue working together on pilot safety and professionalism with Algonquin College,” said Steve Linthwaite, Vice President, Flight Operations, Jazz. “The Jazz APP scholarships are an important addition and we applaud the hard work demonstrated by this year’s inaugural winners.”
First signed in 2010, the industry-leading agreement between Jazz APP and Algonquin includes collaboration on training and curriculum to promote safety and professionalism, while providing relevant information on industry best practices. The Jazz APP is aimed at establishing a direct career path for qualifying graduates including flight simulator evaluations, student scholarships, and the opportunity for Algonquin’s top-performing Aviation Management graduates to transition to first officer positions at Jazz.
Two awards were recently created to recognize Jazz’s commitment to safety and professionalism:
The Jazz Aviation Pathway Award for Professionalism. Awarded to a full-time student in his or her final year of the Aviation Management program for outstanding contributions to safety, leadership and professionalism. The Award consists of a $3000 scholarship and an opportunity to participate in the Jazz Aviation Pathways Program selection process. The award recipient is selected by the Algonquin program chair or designate in consultation with Jazz to ensure the criteria as outlined are respected. On May 27, 2016, Jazz awarded the inaugural Aviation Pathway Award for Professionalism at Algonquin to Francis Daoust from Ottawa, ON.
The Jazz Aviation Pathway Award for Professionalism and Diversity. Awarded to a full-time student in his or her final year of the Aviation Management program who has self-identified as Aboriginal, a person with a disability, a visible minority, or female; for outstanding contributions to safety, leadership and professionalism. The Award consists of a $3000 scholarship and an opportunity to participate in the Jazz Aviation Pathways Program selection process. The award recipient is selected by the Algonquin program chair or designate in consultation with Jazz to ensure the criteria as outlined are respected. On May 27, 2016, Jazz awarded the inaugural Aviation Pathway Award for Professionalism and Diversity at Algonquin to Laura McAtamney from Ottawa, ON.
“We thank Jazz Aviation for their support of our students through this collaboration, which provides meaningful assistance and encouragement to our students in aviation programs,” said Chris Janzen, Dean, Faculty of Technology and Trades. “Congratulations to both Francis and Laura on their outstanding success – we wish them well in their future careers.”
Since 2007 Jazz has been actively involved in shaping the curriculum and training of Canada’s future professional pilots through active engagement with aviation colleges and universities. In 2015, Jazz rebranded these efforts under the Jazz Aviation Pathways Program banner. To-date, Jazz has announced agreements between the Jazz APP and the following aviation colleges and universities: Algonquin College, Confederation College, Mount Royal University, Sault College, Seneca College and Western University.
