Third-year interior design students talk amongst themselves in their groups of four as they review their group's concept art for the new ArtEngine's MakerSpace. Groups look at their presentation slides that include a color palette of what the room would look like and the type of furniture they would want to have. As they review during class, the artistic director...

Apple fritter, vanilla dip, Boston cream and raspberry filled. These were some favourites among those gathered in the AC Hub on Dec. 2 for its donut wall. The sweet pastries were a part of a series of events called Mental Health 360 created by the AC Hub to help students relieve their stress and connect with peers. Some other events...

Special Olympics athlete, Michael Guyton, attended the Sharing Smiles Day on Nov. 22 at St. Pius X High School with the intention of enjoying the festival and having a good time. Guyton has been an athlete for the Special Olympics since 2014 and participates in track and field, bocce, basketball, snowshoeing and 5-pin bowling. "It’s important to always take care...

Three points separated the two teams in the end as the Thunder men’s volleyball team came out on top against Fleming Knights on Nov. 15. Richard Bucar won the game for the home team with a spike low to the left side of the opposing court to give Algonquin the 25 – 22 victory in the third set. Tom Cullingworth...

The Algonquin women’s volleyball team asserted its dominance against Fleming Knights on Nov. 22, taking all three sets in their victory. Thunder’s final spike could not be dealt with by their opposition, giving the home team the victory. The only time Fleming went ahead in the game was after they managed to block an Algonquin spike early in the third...

Eleven programs at Algonquin College will begin to accept winter intakes starting in the winter of 2020 for the first time. The programs cut across the School of Media and Design, School of Hospitality and Tourism, School of Health and Community Studies, the Centre of Construction Excellence and the School of Business. Each program staring a winter intake in 2020...

As demands in different industries grow, the college is always trying to ensure it offers programs that can fill those demands. In its meeting on Oct. 28, the college's board of governors approved two new programs at the college: a graduate certificate in cybersecurity analysis and a bachelor of commerce in marketing. Both programs are expected to start in Fall...

Student innovation and ingenuity was on display as the college kicked off this year's Re/Action event on Tuesday, Dec. 3. In the days leading up to the event, the DARE district was cleared to make room for 87 booths, showcasing 84 student-driven applied research projects. Several programs participated, which ranged from nursing and graphic design to electrical engineering and advertising....

Thirty years after one of the most horrific shootings in Canadian history, the Algonquin College community came together to remember. Many students at Algonquin weren’t even born in 1989 when 14 women were murdered in cold blood in an engineering classroom at Montreal's École Polytechnique because they were women. Sarah Crawford, the college's sexual violence prevention & harm reduction coordinator,...

Algonquin Thunder men’s basketball team suffered a tremendous defeat to the visiting George Brown Huskies on Nov. 30, losing 105-66 in their final game. Thunder head coach Trevor Costello was not happy with his players’ performance.“Terrible game, terrible defensively, offensively,” said Costello. “It wasn’t a good game. We turned the ball over a lot, didn’t play great [defense], so nobody...