Workshops

This year, the SAO has taken on some great new events that allow students to learn different trades and have fun with hands on training from industry professionals. So far, we have had Guitar lessons, Women's Self Defence, Wined & Dined and prepared beautiful Floral Arrangments with our Algonquin Students, and this has got us excited for a whole range of new workshops! Here is a short description of our most recent workshops!

Our Wine & Food Pairing Workshop on October 13, was a sold out event that had Algonquin students raving! It was a great night filled with lots of information and lots of entertainment. There were 4 unique wines selected, each paired with specially prepared hors d'oeuvres from the culinary students, and live music from the wonderful Robyn Dell'Unto. It was a feast for the senses and a great event all around!

The Florist Workshop took place on November 9, and was also a sold out event! After learning about some great tips and tricks with new trends in the floral industry, participants were able to create their own unique flower arrangment to bring home with them! This was a very successful event and we have heard nothing but great reviews!

With all of the success we have seen with these great events, we are looking forward to the new semester and some other great new workshops for Algonquin students to take part in!

Here are a few pictures from our Workshops!


Wine & Food Pairing Workshop

Florist Workshop


We hope to see you at our upcoming events! Keep checking back at www.algonquincollege.com/sao for all our great events and workshops!

Dirty Bingo

Dirty Bingo was a huge success! The SAO, SA and Health Services would like to thank everyone who came out and supported the United Way Campaign. Our Health Services team did a great job promoting sexual awareness and everyone had a great time playing Bingo and winning some great prizes! We would also like to thank Zelda Marshall, our Drag Queen Bingo caller of the night, for doing such a great job helping us out and entertaining the Algonquin students!

We hope that you enjoyed Dirty Bingo and we hope to have this event again very soon!

Volunteering

Volunteering is very important for students now more than ever! Check out this great article from the Ottawa Citizen.
(A reminder to all students that the SAO has some great volunteering opportunities!)

http://www.algonquincollege.com/studentsupportservices/sao/documents/volunteer2.pdf

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.

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!

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/

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!

http://algonquincollege.com/sao

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

https://acsis.algonquincollege.com/students/