2024

Christmas came early for Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent school boards with a special gift delivery Thursday by St. Clair College's Research and Innovation team.

The Indian Creek YMCA Childcare Centre in Chatham-Kent was pleased to host Education Minister Jill Dunlop and Chatham-Kent-Leamington MPP Trevor Jones on Monday, Dec. 16 and showcase St. Clair College early childhood educators in action, completing their mandatory work placements.

The guitars are tuned, the drums are wound tight and The S'Aints band members are resting their vocal cords ahead of Friday's annual Sleighing Hunger Holiday Charity Concert.

But the band, along with representatives from Caesars Windsor Cares and St. Clair College, took time Wednesday to announce the grand total of funds raised for area food banks.

The College will close at the end of the business day on Monday, December 23, 2024, and remain closed until Wednesday, January 1, 2025. The College will re-open on Thursday, January 2, 2025. Classes will resume on Monday, January 6, 2025.

When you walk through the woodworking shop floor at St. Clair College, you'll find table saws and band saws with blades that spin at roughly 3,000 revolutions per minute.

They're efficient, precise, and powerful.

That's why students found a recent donation of antique wood and metal hand tools so intriguing, because it was a tactile lesson in the evolution of tools.

In a field still dominated by men, female St. Clair College students looking to buck that trend got a "women only" experience at a recent policing symposium hosted at York University in Toronto.

During his three years attending St. Clair College, Rodi Mazloum had a stringent regiment of waking up, going to class, working out, going to practice, studying, then going to bed.

Little did he know that this grind would pay big dividends in his life, both athletically and professionally.

To help fill a void at Windsor's Downtown Mission at a time of great need, Paramedic students from St. Clair College filled an ambulance with food and winter clothing and delivered it to the Mission.

Students collected donations of non-perishable food, clothing, feminine hygiene products and pet food at the LaSalle Zehrs and Windsor Sobeys from Nov. 15 to 17, 2024.

Math professor Katrina Tomanelli is used to teaching complicated mathematical concepts to her students at St. Clair College.

But on Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Student Life Centre, the math was pretty simple: exchange a few dollars for the chance to pie your profs and presidents.

Students at Immaculate Conception Catholic School in downtown Windsor will soon be eating healthy, hot meals twice a week thanks to a partnership between St. Clair College's Research and Innovation department and a collection of other community groups.