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CNA student wins free tuition for a year


9/10/2009 10:45:46 AM


Ashley Heath, a third-year Petroleum Engineering Technology (Co-op) student at CNA’s Ridge Road campus, is the grand prize winner of the CNA Summer Crew Tuition Giveaway contest.

College of the North Atlantic student Ashley Heath is the grand prize winner of the CNA Summer Crew Tuition Giveaway contest.

Heath, a third-year Petroleum Engineering Technology (Co-op) student at the Ridge Road campus, will complete her program this year without paying another cent for tuition.

“I couldn’t believe it!” says Heath, when asked what her reaction was to receiving the winning phone call.

The Deep Bay, Fogo Island native says she entered the contest one day while logging onto the CNA webpage to check her student email.

“I was just flabbergasted; I had to ask twice if I had actually won. And since I’ve won everyone keeps asking me how I got it… I say “I was just checking my email”,” she jokes.

The CNA Summer Crew involved teams of students working with CNA Student Development Officer – Regional Coordinators and attending events and festivals throughout the province, handing out great prizes and promoting the Tuition Giveaway contest.

There were five other prize winners as part of the summer-long contest: Juanita Jones, La Tabatiere, Quebec; Darrell Barrett, Upper Island Cove; Alice Marche, Stephenville; Beverly Hazelton, St. John’s and Maurice Dobbin of Port Saunders were all presented with CNA gift packages.

So far, Heath has been more than happy with the educational experience offered by the School of Engineering Technology and says she would recommend her program to anyone interested in the field.

“It’s excellent,” she states. “The people that I go to class with are great, and it gives me lots of hands on training. We did a drill camp last semester, which is required after you complete your second year, and that was done on an oil rig simulator at the Seal Cove campus.”

As part of the program curriculum, students are required to complete a 12-week work term providing them with valuable hand-on, industry-related experience. Heath completed hers with the Centre for Marine CNG in St. John’s which deals with research and development of large-scale marine transportation of compressed natural gas. The experience was a valuable one and gave her the chance to determine where she wants her career to go after graduation.

“I’d like to go offshore for few years and maybe Alberta if I can’t stay in Newfoundland,” she says.

“Staying here would be my first choice for sure.”


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For more information contact:


Roger Hulan
Communications Specialist
College of the North Atlantic
(709) 643-7938
roger.hulan@cna.nl.ca