From May 28 to 31, Niagara College will host approximately 400 elementary school students from across Niagara at the 2019 Destination College workshop to be held at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus (May 28 and 29) and the Welland Campus (May 30 and 31).
Grade 7 students from both the District School Board of Niagara (DBSN) and the Niagara Catholic District School Board will explore future career paths in a fun and interactive way with hands-on activities from a variety of Niagara College’s programs.
The Destination College workshop is supported by the School-College-Work Initiative, a local partnership between the DBSN and Niagara Catholic, funded by the provincial government. It has been organized by Niagara College for 14 years.
Notable sessions include
- Seed Ball (Environmental): Students will create clover seed balls for bees that they can bring home to help save pollinators in their own communities.
- Ice Cream in a Bag (Culinary): Students will learn how to create this delicious treat from scratch.
- Dragon’s Den (Business): A lesson in entrepreneurship. Working in teams, students will use limited supplies to design a product to pitch to NC resident dragon.
- Faceless Dolls (Liberal Arts): A crafting project to raise awareness of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls across Canada, facilitated by NC alumna Alkiie-Babe Froman, also featured in Macleans.
- Sound and Amplification (Electronics): In this introduction to the electronics industry and NC’s Electronics Engineering Technician and Technology programs, students will learn basic theory of sound and amplification using an oscilloscope to generate sounds.
- Triangle Peg Game (Construction): Students will craft their own Triangle Peg Game in one of NC’s construction labs to test their concentration and strategy skills
