Monday, September 20, 2010

Orientation Laptop Winner!


The Student Affairs and Orientation Office would like to congratulate Daniela for winning our Orientation laptop giveaway! The next draw will be at Winter Orientation.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

We're Back!

After a succesful week of Orientation, we're back to tell you guys about our events happening around the College all this month! Our Welcome Weeks, (which kicked off last week) have been so much fun! We had a great time at Campus Village, and our Zip Lining trip was such a blast we are planning a more intense trip already! Here is a breif glimpse of what is coming up!
  • Meet Rob Dyer of Skate4Cancer (September 14 to 16) At our events from the 14 to 16
  • Outdoor Movie & BBQ (September 14) Free BBQ and "Get him to the Greek"
  • Courtyard Carnival (September 15) Airbounce, games, music & Giveaways
  • IKEA Madness (September 15) Compete against Carleton U & Ottawa U
  • Campus Connections (September 16) Connect with employers and find great Volunteer opportunities
  • BBQ in Perth (September 17) Free BBQ and meet new friends
  • Chances R Patio Social (September 20) Free BBQ, Live Music, Great Fun
  • Movie Night (September 27) Come out this time for "Kick-Ass"

For more details on the above events, check out our events page on our website. www.algonquincollege.com/sao

We have lots more planned for October and our website will be updated as we have all the details ready for you guys! Hope to see you at all our events!



Friday, August 13, 2010

Student News

Hey Algonquin!

We have a brand new feature on our website to help everyone out!

We now have a News Feed on our website to keep everyone in the know of big events around the College! This will include any important dates that effect you as a student (timetables, registration, etc). If you know/have any College wide events that you would like us to post you can always send us an email at saomail@algonquincollege.com and we will do our best to post it on our website!

To check out our News Feed go to: http://www.algonquincollege.com/studentsupportservices/sao/students.htm

In our recent news, we have been given word of a new student email system (AlgonquinLive) that will be implimented this year. There will be more information to come, but for now check out the website at http://www.microsoft.com/liveatedu/

Friday, August 6, 2010

Updates!

Hey Guys!

Its been about 2 weeks since our last post, but we have been pretty busy here in the SAO office getting everything ready for your 2010 Fall Orientation!


Things are coming together quite nicely and we think you will be pretty happy with the events we have planned for September and beyond. But we are going to keep those a surprise for now! hehe. If you want to check out our September events so far, you can check out our Welcome Weeks schedule in the Orientation section of our website found at: http://www.algonquincollege.com/studentsupportservices/sao/orient.html


Keep checking back for the most up-to-date event schedule. Hey, have you checked out our new website design yet? You should do that now if you haven't yet!



Oh, and make sure you check out ACSIS today since most 2010 Fall Timetables are up!



Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Summer Carnival 2010!

Hey Everyone!

Check out our videos and photos from Summer Carnival! It was a great day and we can't wait til next year. We are already talking about it!

What was your favourite part? What would you like to see next year? Let us know by commenting on this post and it could happen!



You can see more at:
http://www.algonquincollege.com/studentsupportservices/sao/gallery.html

Thursday, July 15, 2010

July 14th, 2010

Summer Carnival was a hit!
This is just a quick post to tell everyone what a wonderful day we had!
We had tons of people come out and enjoy the sunshine with us and all the great activities. There was tons of food, snow cones, and games and we hope everyone had as much fun as we did! We will be posting some of the highlights of this event next week for everyone to see, so check back and see if your photo is on our blog!

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Summer Carnival

Here is an update about Summer Carnival!

Taking place NEXT Wednesday, July 14th, (rain day July 15th) at 11:30am until 1:30pm, we are having our much anticipated Summer Carnival. If you have not yet attended this great event, make this your year! Students and Staff alike, wait all year long for this event and we wouldn't want you to miss out!

We have all signs printed and ready, our psychic and caricature artist are booked, we have a TON of food, and the best part? ITS ALL FREE! That's right. Totally free. All you need to do is show up. The festivities and BBQ are brought to you by Student Affairs and Orientation, Students' Association and Residence Life, so you can enjoy the afternoon with us completely free of charge.

We are super excited for this fun event, and we hear the weather is going to be on our side as well! Come out, enjoy the sunshine, all the activities and come say hi! This is a great opportunity to meet some of your Orientation crew and ask questions about this years coming events.

Mark it on your calendars and we hope to see you there!