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UPEI’s co-operative education program presents annual student awards
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Students in the University of Prince Edward Island’s cooperative education program were recognized recently for their excellent work during an awards ceremony held in the Don and Marion McDougall Hall.
The highlight of the event was the presentation of the annual co-op student of the year awards.
Johanna Egan, who graduated with her business degree in May of 2008, won the 2007 Business Student of the Year award. She worked as a co-op student on Tourism Atlantic’s Competitiveness through Best Practices program in the summers of 2006 and 2007. She was responsible for researching and organizing tourism best practices missions throughout North America for Atlantic Canadian tourism operators. Egan is currently a tourism officer in the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s (ACOA) Tourism Atlantic section.
The Computer Science Co-op Student of the Year award went to YunPeng Bai, who worked with Canada Mortgage and Housing Agency (CMHC) in Charlottetown during the summer of 2007. During his work term, he modified the design of an existing database to provide additional reports and data needed for changes to programs and procedures. In January 2008, he returned to CMHC for a second work term and then completed a third this summer for a power supply company in his home town of Chaotian, China. He will graduate in the spring of 2010.
Willy Gauthier won the Donald G. MacCormac Leadership Award for a student who has demonstrated leadership in his academic and co-op studies. Gauthier served as vice-president of finance for the UPEI Student Union in 2006/2007 and as president in 2007/2008. He was also president of the university’s Adult Connections in Education (ACE) program in 2007/2008 and vice-president of finance for ACE in 2006/2007. He did his first co-op work term with the Provincial Treasury and then two more with Grant Thornton in Charlottetown. Other awards include the National Futures Fund CEO of the Year, the Regis Duffy Award for Academic Achievement and Leadership in the University Community, the Peake and McInnis Prize in Business and the Class of 1998 Leadership Award. He graduated in May of 2008 and is employed with Grant Thornton.
On an earlier occasion, Brian Bylhouwer received the 2007 Physics Co-op Student of the Year award. Bylhouwer completed two four-month work terms in the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre at National Research Council-Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, B.C. He then joined Satlantic where he worked on a project to build a novel underwater sensor, a digital video camera that measures radiance at each pixel in the image. He graduated with a BSc with a major in physics in May 2008.
The highlight of the event was the presentation of the annual co-op student of the year awards.
Johanna Egan, who graduated with her business degree in May of 2008, won the 2007 Business Student of the Year award. She worked as a co-op student on Tourism Atlantic’s Competitiveness through Best Practices program in the summers of 2006 and 2007. She was responsible for researching and organizing tourism best practices missions throughout North America for Atlantic Canadian tourism operators. Egan is currently a tourism officer in the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s (ACOA) Tourism Atlantic section.
The Computer Science Co-op Student of the Year award went to YunPeng Bai, who worked with Canada Mortgage and Housing Agency (CMHC) in Charlottetown during the summer of 2007. During his work term, he modified the design of an existing database to provide additional reports and data needed for changes to programs and procedures. In January 2008, he returned to CMHC for a second work term and then completed a third this summer for a power supply company in his home town of Chaotian, China. He will graduate in the spring of 2010.
Willy Gauthier won the Donald G. MacCormac Leadership Award for a student who has demonstrated leadership in his academic and co-op studies. Gauthier served as vice-president of finance for the UPEI Student Union in 2006/2007 and as president in 2007/2008. He was also president of the university’s Adult Connections in Education (ACE) program in 2007/2008 and vice-president of finance for ACE in 2006/2007. He did his first co-op work term with the Provincial Treasury and then two more with Grant Thornton in Charlottetown. Other awards include the National Futures Fund CEO of the Year, the Regis Duffy Award for Academic Achievement and Leadership in the University Community, the Peake and McInnis Prize in Business and the Class of 1998 Leadership Award. He graduated in May of 2008 and is employed with Grant Thornton.
On an earlier occasion, Brian Bylhouwer received the 2007 Physics Co-op Student of the Year award. Bylhouwer completed two four-month work terms in the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre at National Research Council-Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, B.C. He then joined Satlantic where he worked on a project to build a novel underwater sensor, a digital video camera that measures radiance at each pixel in the image. He graduated with a BSc with a major in physics in May 2008.
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