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Anti-Bullying/Pink Shirt Day 2020

Wednesday February 26 th , 2020 was Anti-Bullying Day where staff and faculty at both Mississauga and Toronto campus locations encouraged everyone to practice kindness and stand against bullying! Classes were visited and told about bullying, letting our students know that they are not alone and there is help and support available to them always. Some staff and students wore pink since pink is the color associated with raising awareness for this ever so important topic. We can all battle against this issue and stop bullying!

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Pączki Day 2020

Today staff and students celebrated cultural diversity in both Toronto campus and Mississauga campus, where everyone was able to enjoy some delectable donuts and also learned a little bit about this wonderful tradition.

Diversity is what makes Canada, the place we call home so great. We are privileged to have a plethora of different cultures in our country and cities that allows us to always learn something new and interesting, practically every day.

 Pączki Day is a time that people of Polish decent traditionally observe the day before Ash Wednesday. Paczki’s are like little jam filled deep fried donuts and historically they were made so that people could use up all sugar, eggs, butter and lard before Lent, during which folks give up an indulgence for 40 days.

Happy Pączki Day everyone!

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New Campus Opening January 2020

We are growing! Ace Acumen Academy is proud to announce that the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities and St Clair College have approved the opening of our second campus, which will be located in Mississauga, and will offer additional St Clair College programs starting in January 2020. We look forward to expanding our course selection to our international students!

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Employee First Aid Training

Ace Acumen hosted St John Ambulance training this week for many of its employees. Ensuring that our team is ready to assist in the event of minor injuries is important to Ace Acumen, and we continue to offer training regularly to ensure that we have many people on staff who are properly trained for emergency response. First Aid kits, and trained responders are in all areas of our campuses, meeting health and safety compliance regulations.

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Police Seminars 2019

Life in Canada is great, it’s full of freedom and it’s safe. However these qualities of living in Canada are the result of its inhabitants following and abiding by the laws and rules of this great country.

What better way to assist our students in this regard then to have one of Canada’s own police officers visit our classrooms and give our students talks around many important topics.

Officer David started off by letting all of our students know that he personally came to Canada many years ago as an immigrant and through his hard work and following the rules and laws was able to become a success.

Officer David told our students about rules and laws around many topics, and these topics included:

  • Driving
    • Rules of the road
    • Ownership of vehicles
    • Speeding
  • Verbal and Physical Abuse
    • Any sort of physicality or touch may not be viewed as appropriate to many people in
      Canada.
    • Best policy is to not be physical or verbally physical with anyone.
    • Threats.
    • Harassment.
    • Intimidating behavior.
  • Consuming Substances
  • Smoking Regulations and laws

Officer David was great! We will be inviting him back a number of times this year and in the near future to help us make sure all students receive these important lessons.

Thank you Officer David!

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Women’s Empowerment Talk Event

On Wednesday, November 13th  2019, Ace Acumen Academy proudly held its first Women’s Empowerment Talk event, a motivational event for our female students. The speaker, Katie Zeppieri, founder and creative director from the Girl Talk Empowerment movement, is a social entrepreneur, author, blogger and motivational speaker, who has spoken across North America, including on the TED Talk international stage in Vancouver.

Katie brought to our students a series of positive messages about empathy. She discussed on how to make your mark in the world and women empowerment. She also described how having education is a privilege to be enjoyed and on how to overcome your anxiety and barriers that all women face to achieve their goals whether personal or professional and believing in yourself and being extraordinary – quoting Jimmy Johnson “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra” definitely helps. In her generosity, Katie drew one of the students from those in attendance to give her an autographed copy of her book.

As a team, it was easy to see that our students felt that they could relate to many of the situations and messages that Katie presented. By the end of the talk a number of our students had time for one-on-one chats with Katie and took pictures.

We are very pleased with the positive feedback we have heard from our students and are looking forward for more successful events like this one!

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Curvaceous Pumpkin Halloween

Halloween is on October 31 st each year and it is one of Canadians favorite holidays because it gives adults and children alike the chance to dress up and be someone else for the day; of course just as long as they remember they still have to act like themselves and be the good workers and students they are!

This year Ace Acumen celebrated Halloween with a number of fun events, the highlights being the dressing up in different costumes and make up and the pumpkin carving competition which our students participated in. For just about all the students participating it was their first time carving a pumpkin. Even with the fact that they have not done this type of activity before they were seasoned professionals, as their pumpkins came out looking amazing!

Happy Halloween!

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Diwali 2019

Diwali is called the festival of lights, and at Acumen all of our students are bright lights for the future! On October 23rd students and staff at Ace Acumen celebrated a little early but celebrated nevertheless this wonderful day. Lights in this celebration represent the triumph of light over dark and the power of good over evil.

Our students celebrated with lights and decorations, music and dance and also had their hands decorated with Hanna drawings, created by our very own students, such great artists.

Diwali is one holiday that is always dear to our hearts here at Acumen, and we cannot wait to celebrate
it again next year.

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Trip to Wonderland’s Halloween Haunt

On October 19th our students had the chance to attend a spooky trip to the Halloween Haunt at Canada’s Wonderland in Vaughan.

Halloween Haunt occurs every year during the month of October in the evenings and leads us to one of the most popular holidays of the year, Halloween!

At Canada’s Wonderland that day all the employees dress up in costumes and make up and become monsters and zombies, and haunted houses are built upon the regular grounds of the theme park for visitors to make their way through bravely, without getting scared too much. The wonderful roller coasters were also operating as well so our students got the chance to ride some of them as well. All of our students had a great time being brave with their friends and staff in the haunted houses and have memories that will last them a lifetime.

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Mid Autumn Dancing Festival

On September 15, 2019, St. Clair College @ Ace Acumen was happy to have participated in the Mid-Autumn Festival; the second grandest festival in China after the Chinese New Year. It takes its name from the fact that it is always celebrated in the middle of the autumn season. The day is also known as the Moon Festival, as at that time of the year the moon is at its roundest and brightest. Mid-Autumn Festival is on the 15th day of the 8th Chinese lunar month. The date of the festival in Gregorian calendar changes every year, but it is usually in September or October. Studying in Toronto city has so many advantages; one of them is being in a multicultural city. We celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival with a Punjabi folks dance, Bhangra. It was a great experience and atmosphere as well as remarkable memories for our staff and students.