Here is your green tip of the week from ECO-St. Lo, your award-winning local environment group.

Think about buying fair trade items if you feel compelled to purchase Christmas gifts.

Fair trade is about better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world. By requiring companies to pay sustainable prices (which must never fall lower than the market price), fair trade addresses the injustices of conventional trade, which traditionally discriminates against the poorest, weakest producers.

The fair trade system includes environmental standards as part of producer certification. The standard requires producers to work to protect the natural environment and make environmental protection a part of farm management. Producers are also encouraged to minimize the use of energy, especially energy from non-renewable sources.

Fair trade criteria require sustainable farming techniques.Moreover, fair trade premiums are often used to train producers in organic and sustainable techniques like composting and integrating recycled materials, which can help them make progress in organic conversion in the future.

ECO-St. Lo is selling fair trade items (tuques, scarves, coffee and jewelery) from Peru Tuesday and Thursday this week and Tuesday of next week at the reception area. All proceeds go to ECO-St. Lo's environmental and fair trade initiatives.

Do you have a career in mind, but would like to get a closer look? Jeunes Explorateurs d'un jour allows you to see someone do the job you would actually like to do. It is a great way to confirm your career choice or discover a new one!  

Programme Jeunes Explorateurs d'un Jour

Those who could not attend the information session held November 10 are invited to take an appointment with Mathieu Gagné  before January 27  to receive all the information required for registration.  

Job-shadowing activities for the Health Science sector will take place February 16, 2012. All other job-shadowing activities will be held April 19, 2012.

Contact Information:

Mathieu Gagné, Guidance Counselling Intern

Room 273 (located in room 272)

mgagne@slc.qc.ca 

Feeling Overwhelmed? Anxious? Need someone to talk to?

Kim Patenaude is here to help you. Please go see her in room 259 in the library.

Click here to view list of upcoming scholarships!

Check out other scholarship opportunities on the counselling board near room 272. If you have questions or need help to apply, see Mathieu Gagné in room 273 (schedule is on his door and office is located in room 272). 

SRACQ (Service régional d'admission au collégial de Québec): www.sracq.qc.ca

Deadline for second-round admissions is December 1.

Service régional de l'admission des cégeps du Saguenay -
Lac-Saint-Jean: http://www.srasl.qc.ca/

Deadline for second-round admissions is December 1.

Meet an Employer in the Tech Park

Date: December 6, 2011 at 9:30 a.m.

Location: Option-travail/Carrefour jeunesse-emploi in Sainte-Foy

Address: Plaza Laval, 2750 chemin Sainte-Foy, office 295

A representative from the Parc technologique du Québec métropolitain will tell you about the different companies hiring personnel with high school, collegial and universeity degrees. Over 5,000 employees work for these companies who specialize in fields such as electronics, optics, environment, office work, administration, management, new technologies and communications.

To register call 418-651-6415

For more information, visit wwww.trouveunemploi.com

www.trouveunemploi.com

Registration in room 272 (student activities)  

SLC Students $75/semester-$125/year
Non-students $100/semester-$180/year
Faculty and Staff no cost
Students taking PE 103 must register with the fitness centre to complete their course. The cost for these students is $20.00 for the semester if they register before mid-term.

IMPORTANT: Everyone (teams, students, faculty) you must have a membership card to the fitness centre and will be asked to show appropriate identification to the security guard or supervisor. If you can not present a card you will be asked to leave immediately.

Lost objects: if you lost something lately, please take a moment to take a look at the "Lost and found" table, set in front of the reception desk.  Your lost object could be there.

The "Lost and Found" committee.

Congratulations to Jérôme Charrette-Pépin and to Alexandre Carrier. They have won our local poetry contest. Their works have been submitted to the "Concours Intercollégiale de Poésie". The results of the provincial contest will be made public in May. Follow this link to read their poems.

Do you want to win great prizes AND contribute to a good cause at the same time?

Then you must check out the Christmas Hamper Fundraiser!

Generous local contributors have donated arts and crafts projects to help raise funds for the people in need in the community. The College has also provided some St. Lawrence paraphernalia-two sports bags and a hoodie-that will be part of the prizes!

Come and see the showcase in front of the reception desk, or else check the online gallery of projects on the St. Lawrence webpage.

Buy your tickets at the Reception Desk, from Student Activities or else from Patrick Savard (ext. 472).

WEEKEND SCOREBOARD 

METHODOLOGY WORKSHOP  

Need help with your papers and essays?

Want to improve your grades on your papers? Need help with APA or MLA style? Want to write top-notch outlines and annotated bibliographies? Confused about where to find and how to cite scholarly research sources? Then why not come to the Methodology Workshop? You will find help with these questions and more!! Where? Rm 255 (in the library). When?

Monday: 10:00-11:30

Tuesday: 10:00-12:30

Wednesday: 14:30-15:30

Thursday: 10:30-12:30

 Friday: 10:30-12:30

Bring your drafts, your questions, your papers to either  Lisa Birch or Genevieve Ribordy and see better results and higher grades!!!

  

Need help with your written English?

Come to the beautiful new Writing Workshop.

 

Where? Room 263 in the library

Why? Better English means better grades in all your subjects!

 

If there are no more appointment times at the Workshop,you may also use our other services.

 

English peer-tutor service

If students prefer to work with highly skilled individuals their own age, English peer tutors are available. Just see Bob McBryde in office 356 or contact him by MIO.

 

Also come to the English Peer Tutor Drop-in Centre in room 340 (located at the south exit) every Tuesday and Thursday from 12:10 to 13:55, starting in a few weeks. Watch for the announcement of opening day.  

Students planning to go study in the States are generally required to complete SAT testing. The test is administered by the College Board. Canadian students are considered to be international students. Students planning to take both the SAT and SAT Subject tests must do so on two separate testing days.

Although St. Lawrence is an authorized testing center, you must register online at  http://sat.collegeboard.org and pay your testing fees to the College Board. Study materials are available at your library. You may also use free online practice tools or order additional practice material. The registration booklets, as well as the preparation booklets, are available in the Counselling Office, room 254.  

Our test center code is 97261 (if you don't find our name on the list, you may also search by code). If you have any questions about the registration process, you may contact Nicole Anne Daigle, Guidance Counsellor.

 They are looking for people with:

• High overall academic achievement--especially with a passion for math and the sciences
• Creative and entrepreneurial minds
• Initiative and drive
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills
• Leadership skills as well as the ability to work as a team member
• Participation in extracurricular activities

Applications are due by December 7, 2011 or January 18, 2012, and early applications are encouraged. 

If you would like more information, you can see me, Nicole Anne Daigle, in room 254 (library).