{"id":2764,"date":"2012-03-16T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2012-03-19T14:17:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T21:17:19","slug":"web-exclusive-camosun-co-op-students-recognized-for-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/03\/16\/web-exclusive-camosun-co-op-students-recognized-for-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun co-op students recognized for excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, two Camosun students are being recognized for their achievements during their co-op work terms last year. Hospitality management student Erica Parsons and associate degree student Jaimy Simmonds have been honoured with national and provincial co-op awards, following in the footsteps of five years of Camosun co-op award winners.<\/p>\n

Every year since 2007, the Canadian Association For Cooperative Education (CAFCE) and the Association for Cooperative Education (ACE), which hand out annual awards to exceptional co-op students across Canada and BC, have recognized Camosun students.<\/p>\n

While both students this year achieved excellence with their co-op experience, the work of Simmonds and Parsons couldn\u2019t have been more different.<\/p>\n

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Camosun co-op student Erica Parsons with some friends (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Simmonds, who will receive the top award and $500 from the provincially focused ACE, spent her co-op semester working in Fort Nelson in forestry service. Simmonds says her work in this industry and involvement in a unique project helped her win the accolades.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe field I\u2019m working is quite progressive. I\u2019ve been working on a big wind-farm project that\u2019s going up in the North Island,\u201d says Simmonds. \u201cIt\u2019s the first wind-farm project that\u2019s gone in on the island.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also suggests that being an older student has helped her to gain academic achievement, something that\u2019s important to the ACE judges.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am an older student. I started school at 27,\u201d says Simmonds. \u201cI was much more focused than I might have been at 19 or 20.\u201d<\/p>\n

In contrast, Parsons\u2019 co-op term was spent in Orlando, Florida, working as a concierge with Disney. Parsons, who will receive an honourable mention certificate from CAFCE, says though the position was far from home, working for Disney was an easy choice to make.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a bit of a Disney fanatic, so it was kind of a no-brainer for me,\u201d says Parsons. \u201cThe chance to see the inner workings of such a massive company was really an experience I didn\u2019t want to pass up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though she isn\u2019t receiving any money from her CAFCE recognition, Parsons counts herself lucky to have had such a fulfilling work term.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned so much,\u201d says Parsons. \u201cI met so many amazing people and it was just amazing to be part of the company and to make magic every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gillian Tweed, marketing and communications officer for co-op education, is delighted that Camosun co-op students have once again been recognized for their achievements.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very proud,\u201d says Tweed, \u201cThe students are very hard workers, they\u2019re strong students academically, and they have done something really great on their work terms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, two Camosun students are being recognized for their achievements during their co-op work terms last year. Hospitality management student Erica Parsons and associate degree student Jaimy Simmonds have been honoured with national and provincial co-op awards, following in the footsteps of five years of Camosun co-op award winners. Every year since 2007, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}