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Two St. Clair College Enactus projects teamed up and earned second-place honours at the recent virtual Enactus National Exposition.
Project InterACT, an online platform providing students with skills and resources to achieve financial stability and Project Endure, a mentorship program for those with developmental disabilities, finished second in the financial education challenge. Kaitlyn Pecaski is the team lead for InterACT and Hallie Westwood holds the same position for Endure. Both projects feature elements promoting financial literacy.
Project InterACT prepares students with job interview experience, job opportunities, and works to teach them basic financial skills through a mobile app and website that was developed by a team in the Mobile Application Development program.
Endure is a mentorship program to encourage independence. Students in the Community Integration through Cooperative Education (CICE) program have benefited from Endure, according to a college media release.
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The CICE program is designed to provide individuals with developmental disabilities and other significant learning challenges with the opportunity to experience college life, pursue post-secondary education and develop skills that will help them prepare for employment.
Endure has been making strides in having students with developmental disabilities integrated with non-disabled post-secondary students.
“We still have a long way to go, but this project, this collaboration of so many involved is an amazing starting point to educate staff and students to continue to work on removing the barriers that students with developmental disabilities face when it comes to accessing post-secondary education,” said Stephanie DeFranceschi, the program’s co-ordinator in a media release.
Sixty-one teams from Canadian colleges and universities participated in the exposition.
St. Clair Enactus projects share second-place honours - Windsor Star
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