Niagara College’s Enactus team earned two trophies at the Enactus National Conference in Toronto.
Niagara College students won two trophies at the Enactus National Conference in Toronto, where teams from approximately 60 postsecondary institutions from across the country competed by showcasing their best social entrepreneurship initiatives and projects from the 2014-15 school year.
In the opening round of the competition held May 11-13 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, NC’s team won a trophy for placing third in its division, League A – which included the University of Windsor and the University of Calgary. The team also won a trophy is for being the Most Improved Team in Canada, based on the fact that the team’s overall rank increased the most compared to last year’s rankings.
The Niagara College team included Mitchell Boekestyn, Jordan Coons, Marc-Antoine Delannoy, David Kuijvenhoven, Nathan Lodde, Jack McKeever, Stephanie Murrell, Christa O’Howe, Katherine Perrin, Simon Price, Brandon Sloan, and Gerrit Vermeer.
The Enactus National Exposition is an annual event brings together student, academic and industry leaders from across the country to celebrate the achievements of Canada’s future leaders and entrepreneurs. Over the course of the three-day event, students showcase how their community outreach projects and business ventures are enabling progress through entrepreneurial action through rounds of live and presentation based competition, judged by business leaders who determine the champions. For details www.enactus.ca/enactus-events/national-exposition/
NC has participated in Enactus for well over a decade (formerly called Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE), and Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship). In 2010, NC won first place at the regional competition. That same year, the team’s faculty advisor Rob Greene (professor, Business and Entrepreneurship Division) was honoured with the Faculty Advisor of the Year award for all of Canada.
While many students who participate in Enactus are enrolled in the college’s Business programs, students from all programs are welcome to join the team, which is based out of the NOTL Campus. Students dedicate hundreds of hours towards community projects, allowing them to apply what they have learned in the classroom, to real situations.
