Two new awards to benefit students in St. Thomas and Elgin campuses
Fanshawe College announced
late February that Ascent Group
Inc. had made a generous donation,
which will fund two new
awards to benefit students at the St.
Thomas and Elgin campuses.
Ascent Group Inc. is a high-voltage electrical contractor, which was formed through the merging of like-minded companies formerly known as ECM Controls, St. Thomas Energy Services Inc., Tal Trees, Tiltran Services and Lizco Sales.
Ascent spokesperson Jeff Milcz said the donation is meant to support communities and programs.
“The thought really was to give back to students in our community engaged in programs that relate to the business that we're in,” he said. “We see it as a great opportunity to work with the College to promote programs that are focused on the industries that we're engaged in, which is renewable energy and electrical industries.”
Milcz said with the industry growing as fast as it is, it only made sense to invest.
“We want those [programs] to continue,” he said. “We want students locally to be able to feed our future job market.”
Though the amount remains undisclosed, Milcz said the awards are “significant enough.”
“Hopefully it recoups some of the cost of staying in a program like that,” he said. “Rising tuition costs and the general cost of living and being in a college program. It's expensive to stay engaged in higher education.
“We feel it's off-setting some of the cost for some worthy students who are excelling in the program.”
Students who may be put into consideration must encompass certain things.
“Students [who] are excelling in the program and show tremendous promise as far as being actively engaged and doing extremely well in the program,” Milcz said. “It's really based on those [who] choose to show enthusiasm and [are] excelling academically in the program.”
The partnership between Ascent and the College is one that is particularly beneficial to students in the renewable energy sector as well as in research and development.
“We're investing in our future workforce,” said Milcz. “We want to promote higher education in [our] respective field. It is a benefit to Ascent and our community when we're giving back to a program that employs people in our communities.
Ascent has participated in work fairs in London and at Fanshawe, looking for potential employees.
“We have a number of openings,” he said. “The programs that Fanshawe offers are producing students that have potential careers with Ascent going forward.”
“It's exciting for organizations that are involved in specific industries to have ties to the local brainpower of higher education institutions,” Milcz said. “We're really impressed with the level of student engagement [at Fanshawe], the knowledge and the types of projects they're working on.”
Students can find out more about the bursaries through Student Awards at www.fanshawec.ca/studentawards. For more information on Ascent Group Inc. visit ascent.ca.
Ascent Group Inc. is a high-voltage electrical contractor, which was formed through the merging of like-minded companies formerly known as ECM Controls, St. Thomas Energy Services Inc., Tal Trees, Tiltran Services and Lizco Sales.
Ascent spokesperson Jeff Milcz said the donation is meant to support communities and programs.
“The thought really was to give back to students in our community engaged in programs that relate to the business that we're in,” he said. “We see it as a great opportunity to work with the College to promote programs that are focused on the industries that we're engaged in, which is renewable energy and electrical industries.”
Milcz said with the industry growing as fast as it is, it only made sense to invest.
“We want those [programs] to continue,” he said. “We want students locally to be able to feed our future job market.”
Though the amount remains undisclosed, Milcz said the awards are “significant enough.”
“Hopefully it recoups some of the cost of staying in a program like that,” he said. “Rising tuition costs and the general cost of living and being in a college program. It's expensive to stay engaged in higher education.
“We feel it's off-setting some of the cost for some worthy students who are excelling in the program.”
Students who may be put into consideration must encompass certain things.
“Students [who] are excelling in the program and show tremendous promise as far as being actively engaged and doing extremely well in the program,” Milcz said. “It's really based on those [who] choose to show enthusiasm and [are] excelling academically in the program.”
The partnership between Ascent and the College is one that is particularly beneficial to students in the renewable energy sector as well as in research and development.
“We're investing in our future workforce,” said Milcz. “We want to promote higher education in [our] respective field. It is a benefit to Ascent and our community when we're giving back to a program that employs people in our communities.
Ascent has participated in work fairs in London and at Fanshawe, looking for potential employees.
“We have a number of openings,” he said. “The programs that Fanshawe offers are producing students that have potential careers with Ascent going forward.”
“It's exciting for organizations that are involved in specific industries to have ties to the local brainpower of higher education institutions,” Milcz said. “We're really impressed with the level of student engagement [at Fanshawe], the knowledge and the types of projects they're working on.”
Students can find out more about the bursaries through Student Awards at www.fanshawec.ca/studentawards. For more information on Ascent Group Inc. visit ascent.ca.
