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Inaugural recipients receive up to $40,000 for two-year program

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Ottawa (September 7, 2023) – Ten students have been named Algonquin College’s inaugural recipients of the newly created Schulich Builders Scholarships for Skilled Trades.

This comes as the country’s most populous province faces a growing shortage of skilled labour.

Out of more than 1,000 students nominated, 100 across the province received the financial support – the country’s largest skilled trade scholarship. Ten colleges, including Algonquin College, each awarded 10 scholarships – five for one-year certificate programs and five for two-year diploma programs. Continue reading →

OTTAWA (September 7, 2023) — Algonquin College and Field Effect, a global cybersecurity solutions and services provider, are excited to announce they’ve formed a strategic partnership to transform cybersecurity education.

Core to the partnership is Field Effect’s Cyber Range, the company’s purpose-built cybersecurity educational platform. From training and simulation to testing, the platform’s interactive controls replicate real-life networks in a controlled virtual environment, while its course and simulations library empowers users to evolve from junior practitioners to expert security operators. Continue reading →

Learners in Algonquin College’s Computer Programming program are working to modernize community communications in rural Ontario. Their project will be one of the many to be displayed at the In-Class Projects Showcase on Aug. 3.

Students Maria Boulescu, Zachary Bimson, Changhwan Lee, Fabrizio Ruggirello and Davin Rousseau are developing a web-based “bulletin board” — developed to expedite and simplify community message posting — which is being designed for use in Vernon, Ont.
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