Three students from the Business Administration - Materials and Operations Management program of Conestoga College will be in Orlando, Florida this coming weekend as the result of winning scholarships to attend the annual conference of APICS - The Association for Operations Management. This marks the seventh consecutive year that Conestoga students have earned scholarships to attend the APICS international conference.
The three - Kerri-Lynn Kit, Jaime Nicoll and Brian Ward, all of Kitchener - each have received an $800 (U.S.) award designating them as APICS Scholars. Kit and Nicoll are in the final year of their three-year program, while Ward is in his second year.
APICS Scholars attend conference presentations as well as personal and professional development sessions, meet with general session and educational session speakers, network with conference attendees and visit the APICS exposition. In addition, each performs work duties by serving as room monitors at assigned conference workshop sessions.
The participating students also can attend the various plant and facility tours offered as part of the conference. This year, as the event is in Orlando, there are also tours of Universal Studios and the Kennedy Space Center.
APICS (www.apics.org) has more than 80,000 individual and corporate members, and is dedicated to professional awareness, development and education for materials resource managers in business, industry and the public sector. Conestoga’s student chapter is one of the largest of the 270 student chapters in North America.
In Conestoga’s Materials and Operations Management program, students gain the skills and knowledge required for careers in the highly specialized and expanding fields of production and inventory control, purchasing, traffic of goods and supplies for business and industry, logistics and value analysis. The program emphasizes all five of the basic management functions: planning, organization, staffing, coordination and control.
Kit, Nicoll and Ward have all gained practical experience related to their studies by working in industry - Kit with Husky Injection Molding Systems and Modatek Systems, Nicoll with Magna International and Ward with Rockwell Automation. In addition to their academic excellence, they are active members of Conestoga’s APICS student chapter.
CONTACT: Tracey Lopers, 519-748-5220, ext. 3887, tlopers@conestogac.on.ca