College students win ACE Award
3/8/2001 1:33:20 PM
March 2, 2001 – College of the North Atlantic students from the Prince Philip Drive campus in St. John’s have won the ACE-Canada Community Ventures Award.
The students, members of the Cabot Chapter of ACE-Canada, were presented with the award during the ACE-Canada Young Entrepreneurs’ Gala Awards Dinner held in Toronto, Ontario and sponsored by bizSmart from Feb. 21-23.
The award was part of the annual ACE-Canada Campus Enterprise Challenge which recognizes university and college students nationally for their outstanding entrepreneurial achievements throughout the school year.
Students from more than 40 university and college campuses competed in the Challenge to showcase their chapter’s activities focused on the ACE-Canada pillars of Entrepreneurship Awareness, Entrepreneurship Education, Business Ventures, and Community Ventures.
“We are proud of the entrepreneurial achievements of all our ACE chapters and the extraordinary commitment to the community by our students from Cabot (College of the North Atlantic),” says Rob Henderson, Executive Director of ACE-Canada.
ACE-Canada is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping young entrepreneurial Canadians succeed in the new economy.
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For more information contact:
Lisa Ford
ACE-College of the North Atlantic – Cabot Chapter
(709) 758-7438
lisaford@yahoo.ca