Powerful Learning Experiences This Summer for Algonquin Students
Posted on Saturday, May 9th, 2015
When the world casts its attention on Canada this summer, among the sea of security staff ensuring the Pan Am Games run smoothly, will be as many as fifteen Police Foundations students from Algonquin College’s Waterfront Campus. The students will spend up to ten weeks working along side police officers and security guards, earning a good summer job salary, but more importantly gaining real life work experience at an international event.
The students will work full-time shifts and make $17 an hour with the opportunity to work overtime hours as well. The Games will run from July 7 to 26th and bring together thousands of athletes, volunteers and spectators from around the world, requiring a tremendous amount of teamwork for the security staff that will be assigned to the Games.
While the Police Foundations students will be gaining invaluable work experience on Canadian soil, a group of third year Bachelor of Science in Nursing students and three of their faculty will travel to impoverished Guatemala where they will spend a week helping under-privileged children.
The student nurses will be working directly with doctors and nurses at small health care clinics, providing check ups and basic medical care in poor communities and at orphanages. Their work will be a powerful learning experience for the students who will gain insight into the status of health care in third world countries, and will gain new perspectives on the important role nurses play around the world.
Engaging in these type of opportunities can have a profound impact on students. They inspire them and reinforce the reasons why they chose their program of study. They also create memories that will stick with them for a lifetime.
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Posted by: Jamie Bramburger, Manager of Community and Student Affairs
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