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If you’ve been putting off professional development or personal interest exploration, now is the perfect time to learn something new! Continuing Education at Mohawk College offers over 2,000 courses every year to help you elevate your expertise. Unsure of what to take? Here is a list of nine interes...

By Carolina Ortiz For many people winter is a boring season; the low temperatures, the snow, and the dark sky, make people get depressed and they prefer staying at home rather than going outside. In my point of view, winter is a good season to enjoy different activities such as ice skating, toboggan...

By Hollie Cook ’14 ( Mechanical Techniques – Electrical Monitoring & Systems ) There are moments in my life that I know, looking back, were turning points. Either I was at a crossroads, or in some cases feeling like I was at a dead end, and needed to figure out a way to forge ahead. The wake of some...

Here Are Some of The Things You Should Know And The Activities You Can Do When Celebrating Canadian Halloween By Jan Benavente When you hear the word Halloween, the first things that come to your mind are pumpkin lanterns, candies, weird costumes, scary tales, horror movies and of course trick-or-tr...

Among the challenges of thinking about ePortfolios are the ambiguity of who they are for and what functions do they serve. Is an ePortfolio for the person who creates it or for those who will view it? Is it a Test (an assessment tool) or is it a Story (a record of a learning journey)? One possible w...

By: Keegan Kozolanka 3D printing has proven to be a valuable tool in the manufacturing world. Medical applications of the technology are emerging that will help patients with prosthetics. “Working with a person to restore their appearance after they have had a life-altering accident or a diagnosis i...

Chen Chen, a mechanical engineering graduate, was working at oil fields in Alberta and Texas until the market declined. Chen decided to move back to Canada and explore a new field of technology. “I was looking for jobs and I thought maybe I will learn more skills that will help me with my job search...