Centennial student events raise more than $12,500 for local charities!

Hands-on learning is key to the success of Centennial’s Corporate Communications and Public Relations program. Our students learn by doing from the moment they step foot into the Centre for Creative Communications.  Our Event Management course is the perfect example.  In the first week our students learn they’ll be executing a special event in small teams of four to six in less than 15 weeks.   Very quickly they come together and start putting to work all the skills they’re learning in all their courses.  The result – some stellar special events.

This year, Centennial’s CC&PR students staged nine distinct, entertaining and informative events ranging from an Ugly Holiday Sweater party that received national media coverage on CBC Radio to a beautifully serene yoga evening, to the program’s signature social media event, Talk is Cheap.

Each event benefited a local charity, many so small they have rely on volunteers and donations to keep going.  Together our students raised more than $12,500 for nine charities in the GTA!   Thanks go to Event Management instructors Vivian McCuaig and Holly Fraser for mentoring the students and helping them achieve greatness.

Here’s a list of the charities that are benefiting from the hard work of Centennial students:

• My First Wheels
• Inner City Angels
• Dress for Success
• Blessings in a Backback
• Dr. Roz’s Healing Centre
• National Advertising Benevolent Society
• Right to Play Canada
• Children’s Book Bank
• Breakfast Clubs of Canada

Here are some photos from the events:

The Pack Up Hunger Team (in support of Blessings in a Backpack).

The Bid for a Bike Team (in support of My First Wheels).

CC&PR students wtih Centennial College President Ann Buller.

The Wine4NABS Team with Instructor Holly Fraser and Program Coordinator Barry Waite (in support of National Advertising Benevolent Society).

The Talk is Cheap Team (in support of Right to Play Canada).

The Cheat for a Cause Team (in support of the Children’s Book Bank).

Congratulations to Centennial’s Corporate Communications & Public Relations students on a job well done!