College wide
- George Brown College named one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers
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- The design for our mass-timber building at Waterfront Campus, The Arbour, continues to win awards, including:
-2019 - AZ Award (Azure Magazine) —winner and People's Choice, Unbuilt Buildings category
-2019
- MIPIM/Architectural Review Future Project Award — Sustainability Prize
Student Achievement
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Five students from the School of Fashion & Jewellery each won US$5,000 YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund awards based
on their strong academic performance and on case studies they developed and presented. The 2019 YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund winners are:
-Milica Djukanovic
-Samantha Macri
-Courtney Mancuso
-Fabio Mikai
-Kelsey Nowlan
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Game Art student Jacob Lafortune won first place in the animation category in the Ubisoft NEXT competition in May.
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Prema Chandran, Erica Valentine and Matthew Liu, all students from the School of Accounting and Finance,
won the 2019 CIFP (Canadian Institute of Financial Planners
) National Financial Planning Case Competition on June 3, 2019.
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Refrigeration student Connor Lexovsky won a silver medal at the Skills Canada National Competition in Halifax in May.
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George Brown College students dominated at the Construction Institute of Canada’s 2019 Simulated Student Bid competition, sweeping three of the four categories.
The winning teams are:
Most Professional Category
-1st Place – 2020 General Contractors Inc. (Jessica Yolanda Vazquez Saldana, Angelee Weathers, Jason Pereira, Luisa Alzate Osorno)
-2nd Place - Dash
Design Build (Hani Esmail,
Duc Anh Ngo, Suferdi Laij, Andre Cespedes)
-3rd Place – U3J Construction ltd (Tianbai Wang, Udaygiri Gauswami, Jiadai Li, Jimmy Huynh)
Most Accurate and Complete Category
-1st Place - ML&SK Contractors (Matthew Marotta, Troy Zboch-Lawson, Georgy Sheer, Nikola Kopcalic)
-2nd Place - Dash Design Build (Hani Esmail, Duc Anh Ngo, Suferdi Laij, Andre Cespedes)
-3rd Place - JEMM Construction Ltd. (Michael Marasigan, Justin Porzio, Elton Levani, Mohammed Abu-Hamileh)
Closest to Target Category
-1st Place - ML&SK Contractors (Matthew Marotta, Troy Zboch-Lawson, Georgy Sheer, Nikola Kopcalic)
-2nd Place - Terra Group (Bilal Shaker, Seok Won Choi, Dionis Koci, Leslie Hamilton)
-3rd Place – 2020 General Contractors Inc. (Jessica Yolanda Vazquez Saldana, Angelee Weathers, Jason Pereira, Luisa Alzate Osorno)
Athletics
George Brown College teams took home OCAA (Ontario Collegiate Athletics Association) championships in:
Three George Brown athletes— Anh Hoang and the mixed doubles pair Mike Ra and Angeline Alviar— took home silver medals at
the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) badminton nationals.