In this article, appearing in the three Niagara Dailies, Ray Spiteri writes about a dual credit program delivered in partnership with NC and the Niagara Catholic District School Board’s Launch Centre. The program allows high school students to earn credits simultaneously for high school and college and provides them with hands-on classes in construction, automotive, computer engineering, and health-related disciplines.
NC’s Claude Demers, a faculty member in Workforce Development, is mentioned in the article, noting how the collaboration helps support students to consider a pathway to college, and better prepares them for the transition to post-secondary education.
This fall, 17 students from the program have been working on Christmas vendor booths for an outdoor Christmas market to be held late November through December in Niagara Falls. Past projects have included dog houses for the Niagara Humane Society, Minecraft boxes for kindergarten classrooms, and a cabinet that holds headsets for the Music and Memory program for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients at the Welland hospital.
Read the November 13 article in the St. Catharines Standard here.
