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Conestoga blossomsat annual Tulip Festival

Five Conestoga students earned distinctions at this year's 50th annual Canadian Tulip Festival in Ottawa.
[ 2002-05-29 ]

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Festival organizers staged a series of competitions in a number of categories for international floral designers, professional designers and students from floral design schools.

Five students from Conestoga College's Retail Florist program participated and distinguished themselves by earning four prizes for their skillful, imaginative work in competitions involving floral design schools. The Conestoga entrants were: Lindsay Clymans of Kitchener, Pat Doyle of Waterloo, Jill Dunbrook of Waterloo, Michelle Seip of Kitchener and Sasha Wilbur of Waterloo.

The Surprise Box event involved students receiving, at the start of the competition, a box containing flowers, greens and a container. Without any advance notice about the contents of the box, each student had 90 minutes to prepare a floral conception using only the materials provided.

Two contests were run, with participating students assigned to one or the other. In one contest, Jill Dunbrook and Pat Doyle shared 1st place honours. In the other, Lindsay Clymans won first place outright. Each received a specially designed oil lamp, crafted in glass and bearing the logo of the Canadian Tulip Festival.


The Tulip Blast event involved creation of a floral composition on a metal structure four feet high, to symbolize an explosion of tulips.

Entrants had to provide a sketch in advance, use only tulips and other natural products, and complete the task within the allotted time so that the metal structure was no longer apparent at the completion of the design work.

Sasha Wilbur won second place, and for her efforts received a specially crafted vase bearing the Tulip Festival logo.

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Lambton College is offering a new one-year Pre-Health Science program that will help students prepare for entrance to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree program.

Students who are interested in nursing but lack the pre-requisites for direct admission into the Lambton College/University of Windsor nursing baccalaureate program may take any of the required courses over two terms.

"We're really looking forward to offering this program in September, 2002. There's still room available," said Cindy Buchanan, Director of Marketing and Communications. The college already runs a successful one-year Pre-Health Sciences program, for students who need the broad-based academic background to move into any college health science program. "This program is more specific to prepare students for our Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program," she said.

The curriculum incorporates classroom and laboratory instruction, with small class sizes and individual attention. Subjects offered include chemistry, biology, math, communications, sociology and anthropology at the same level as the OACs required by the University.

Graduates of this one-year program will obtain the necessary requirements to apply for the Lambton College/University of Windsor nursing baccalaureate program where they will spend the first two years at Lambton, with year-three and the first semester of year-four at University of Windsor. The final term will be completed at Lambton.

"Our graduates have an outstanding reputation," said Bob Henry, Dean of School of Health Sciences at Lambton College, noting Lambton College nursing graduates are in high demand.

The four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing program replaces the Diploma Nursing program.

Under an agreement between Lambton College and the University of Windsor, the two institutions began offering the collaborative program in September 2001. The College of Nurses of Ontario requires all nurses entering the profession in 2005 to have completed a university baccalaureate-nursing program. Lambton College also offers a two-year Practical Nursing program and a six-month Personal Support Worker program.



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