A researcher in the Research and Innovation department at St. Clair College has been awarded $20,000 from the WE-SPARK Igniting Discovery grant program to launch a project that promotes literacy beginning at birth.
It’s estimated more than 1,000 people walked through the doors of St. Clair to check out the College’s program offerings during the Fall Open House in early November.
And while it’s a high-level barometer for general interest in the College, the Data Analytics Club at St. Clair wanted to dig a little deeper.
On February 29th, a conference and introduction to the challenge took place at the St. Clair College Centre for the Arts, marking the official start of the event. More than 200 students from St. Clair College's Zekelman School of Information Technology and Zekelman School of Business attended the event. A total of forty teams registered, but only twelve advanced to the second round.
St. Clair College has emerged as the winner of The US & Canada Learn-A-Thon, Introduction to Data Science on Skills for All. Hosted by industry leader, Cisco, this competition unfolded for six hours from February 12 to 26, 2024, with teams from various educational institutions battling it out for the title.
Last week, Our Data Analytics students participated in an international Data Analytics competition organized by the University of New Brunswick. The students competed against 96 teams during the initial round with only 4 teams being selected for the final. The students put on an impressive performance by winning several categories in the final round.
Kushal Patel believes studying in the Data Analytics for Business program at St. Clair College gave him the skillset to climb the ladder of success from being a parking lot attendant to a data engineer at The Home Depot.
COVID-19 has brought attention to the need for quick access to data and data analytics. What exactly is Data Analytics?
Data analytics helps individuals and organizations make sense of data, solves problems, and improves processes, systems and outcomes. For these reasons, data analytics can be interesting, exciting, challenging and rewarding!