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!

Algonquin College students finish 2nd place at the Ontario Colleges’ Marketing Competition 

Algonquin College’s second place win marks the fourth consecutive year that the College placed in the top two at the Ontario Colleges’ Marketing Competition (OCMC). This year’s event took place Dec. 1 to Dec. 2 at the Sheraton Centre in downtown Toronto and included 12 colleges from across Ontario. The event’s host, Seneca College, proudly took home gold, with Algonquin College and Niagara College tying for an impressive second place.

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Algonquin College services for everyday student life

The fall semester is fast approaching — equal parts excitement and apprehension fill the air. To curb back-to-school woes, we’ve compiled a list of every day support services for new and returning students to ensure anxiousness doesn’t overtake the excitement of bounding back into campus life.

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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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