Centennial College aims to give students a unique educational experience, and create global citizens. It believes in connecting students to the community around them, both in the Greater Toronto Area and worldwide. And the world is taking notice.

Centennial College has produced a number of innovators within its college courses, and has received both local and international recognition this year for this fact. Locally, Gilbert Nacu, a student in architectural technology, won first place in the in the Individual Category of the 2014 Ontario Association for Applied Architectural Sciences Student Awards. He did this using his design for twin residential towers entitled The Edge, an eco-friendly downtown Toronto space on Lake Ontario’s shoreline. Meanwhile, students from the Corporate Communications and Public Relations program earned a Golden Quill Award from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) for creating and producing the eight-episode web series The Big Race, focusing on Toronto’s transit problems and the effects they have on students.

Program-wise, the school’s Culture and Heritage Site Management programreceived the Scarborough Museum's 2013 Award of Merit, with Centennial pointing to the work of alumni Jessica Chase and Natalie Lem as the catalyst for the award, due to the pair flourishing at the Museum during placement there. On the global front, a pair of International Business Management students, Jayapriya Narayanan and Sampada Suryavanshitravelled all the way to New Zeland and took home the ANZ Highly Commended Team Award in the Global Enterprise Experience Competition, beating out teams from around the world with their submission, “Kidz Tech,” a game that encourages and rewards outdoor play and physical activity.

It’s one of Centennial College’s missions to give its students practice pursuing their dream careers, and the school’s world-class education produces alumni that are literally award-winning. In this way, Centennial exports the greatest resource possible: Inquisitive minds with the potential to effect positive change on a global scale.”

SOURCE Centennial College