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George Brown College students won a combined $10,000 in seed money for their entrepreneurial ideas as part of the annual Pitch It! competition hosted by startGBC. The 2021 competition—held online due to COVID-19—awarded ideas in two streams: business (for-profit) and social innovation. A...
Business student Erin MacKay is gaining invaluable international work experience in her program — experience that’s helping lay the foundations of a future career as a sustainability consultant. Erin is in her third year of the Business Administration-International Business program, and she’s among...
After years of avoiding leadership roles, business student Sandra Adderley-Melbourne decided to welcome the challenges that come with taking the helm. Now, she's pushing student entrepreneurship projects forward, working to create positive changes in the greater community, and strengthening online...
Katherine Cabrera Velasquez knows what it takes to run a business—she and her husband have been operating a successful international fruit export company for a decade. Now Katherine is working toward earning a diploma at George Brown College’s Centre for Business “because I have the experience, but...
When the world fully opens to travel again Georgy Pyle wants to be at the forefront of an ethical and sustainable tourism transformation. In the meantime, she’s taken a leadership role at the college, ensuring sustainability issues are top of mind for students and the George Brown College...
Culinary Technologist Candace Rambert’s passion for problem solving moves her clients’ food and beverage ideas from the lab to store shelves. It also helped George Brown College’s Food Innovation and Research Studio (FIRSt) meet the challenges posed by COVID-19. FIRSt offers a range of services for...
Breanne Drennan returned to college looking to shift into a career with a focus on human connections. She found it in the Practical Nursing program, in the people she’s caring for during her placement and in the community of her fellow students, professors, and mentors. “I’ve been motivated by the...
Seeing the growing number of women on construction sites gives Aymara Toro Young a surge of excitement. Aymara is a project coordinator with Soncin Construction, a company that works on civil infrastructure projects. She’s also a student in the Building Information Modelling (BIM) Management program...
A new program gives students the opportunity to get real-world experience and earn an honorarium, while fulfilling the required work-integrated learning components of their programs. Students who participate in Riipen’s Level UP program can receive up to $1,400 in payment for working on short-term...
February marks Black History Month and to honour that we're highlighting a George Brown College graduate who's built a dynamic business — entrepreneur Zhorrah Grant, CEO and Creative Director of Hair Granted Beauty Supply. Zhorrah hails from the Bahamas, where she grew up in the city of Nassau. She...
