Niagara Now reported on NC’s Destination College event held May 28 to 31. Over 400 elementary school students from 12 elementary schools across Niagara Region came to both the Niagara-on-the-Lake and Welland Campuses to get a taste of college life. The provincially funded event, part of the larger School-College-Work Initiative, gave students the opportunity to take part in hands-on activities and learn about programs and services at NC.
The piece includes quotes from NC’s Phil Hayes, associate director of recruitment, and Hayley Woehl, a student in Business Administration – Marketing (Co-op), who helped organize the event.
Workshops at the NOTL campus included making ice-cream in a bag in the culinary lab, creating clover seed balls for bees in the environmental lab, an event planning activity, and a product pitch workshop.
In Welland, students crafted faceless dolls in an activity to raise consciousness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada, took part in a popular session on sound using an oscilloscope, and an activity in the construction lab where students crafted their own triangle peg games.
