Centennial Students Sweep Public Relations' ACE Awards!

Online, May 1, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Centennial's Corporate Communications & Public Relations program swept the student categories at the Canadian Public Relations Society Toronto chapter's ACE Awards presented on April 24. Centennial students earned a Gold for Student Campaign of the Year and two Silver finishes in the same category, receiving all three of the awards presented for outstanding student work in public relations. In addition, student Hannah Sunderani (pictured with professor Barry Waite) was named CPRS Toronto PR Student of the Year - the second time in three years a Centennial student has won this coveted award.

And there's more good news: CC&PR Class of 2010 graduate Adrian Seeley won Young PR Professional of the Year - also the second time in three years that a Centennial grad has won this honour! Industry practitioners and employers who packed Arcadian Court were buzzing about Centennial and the amazing grads it's producing. The industry's Achieving Communications Excellence (ACE) awards recognized students' exceptional achievements for special events in our Event Management course, led by instructors Vivienne McCuaig and Holly Fraser. Gold went to Talk is Cheap 5.0, Centennial's annual "unconference" on social media and public relations. The Silver ACE Awards went to both It's Your Moment and BraveArt.

Hannah Sunderani received the CPRS Toronto Student of the Year award for her leadership inside and outside the classroom. Hannah has been active in both her program and on the Student Steering Committee for CPRS. She was part of the ACE award-winning team for It's Your Moment, and is set to start a field placement at the Hospital for Sick Children in May.

Centennial's post-graduate Corporate Communications & Public Relations program is one of the leading post-secondary public relations programs in Ontario. It consistently scores above the provincial average for student satisfaction among comparable programs in the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities' annual Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The program is offered at the Centre for Creative Communications in East York, and at Centennial's new Pickering Learning Site.