Ben Hohner-da Silva comepeted at Skills Canada in the Web Site Development competition May 13-16, 2012. Twenty competitors in secondary and post-secondary designed and developed a website for a concert hall. A tight race between Ben and the Quebec competitor resulted in a silver medal for Ben. Great job Ben, we are so proud!
The Web Communications Development program competed for the second time in the Ontario Technological Skills Competition in Waterloo on May 1, 2012. We sent two second year students, Ben Hohner-da Silva and Jeff Szusz, who both performed very well. There were 20 students competing in both secondary and post secondary competitions. Ben won gold. For the second year in a row St. Clair brought home the gold for the Web program! Great job guys!
Ben will go to Edmonton to compete in the Skills Canada National Competition, May 13-16, 2012.
A local skills competition was held at the college on Saturday, January 21 to select the students that will go to Waterloo in May to compete in the Skills Ontario Competition. The competitors had 3 hours to build a website that could be updated by a site administrator and allow the public to leave comments on. None of the competitors finished the task but all made good progress.
The finalists are (right to left in photo):
First Place: Ben Hohner-da Silva
Second: Jeffrey Szusz
Runner up: Shane Cloutier
Thanks to Future Shop Windsor and Cisco Canada for all the prizes.
The Web Communications Development program held a poster competition to develop a poster to promote the program. Brooke Windibank won the contest with her poster. In the photo Phil Aylesworth (Faculty) is presenting Brooke with a 2TB external hard drive for first place. Thank you to Future Shop Windsor for the great prize.
The Web Communications Development program competed for the first time in the Ontario Skills competition in Waterloo in May 2011. We sent two second year students who both performed exceptionally well. Will Comartin won gold and Peter Murawski won bronze. Great job guys!
Will Comartin went on to compete at Skills Canada 2011 in Quebec City and won bronze! Congratulations Will!
Our first group of students have completed their first year projects. They did an amazing job. A project showcase is up so you can have a look at what they have done. Each group worked with a sponsor organization to provide criteria for the website. The first year project is an informational project with no server-side programming or database.
Next summer these students will be working on database driven websites and our current first year students will be working on informational websites. Contact us if you would like to be considered as a project sponsor.
Web Communications Development is an Ontario Advance Diploma program in web development with courses in core web development plus design programs, writing, marketing, communications, and business. The 6 semeseter program is delivered in 2 years by going through the summer. This provides a quicker graduation and you don't forget your learning over the summer! Check out the program page for detailed information.