2022-2023 Award Winners

We are happy to award this year’s recipients of the Student Recognition Awards. Formally known as the “Volunteer Appreciation Award,” the Student Recognition Awards recognize our students’ hard work and dedication in volunteer, leadership & other service-based roles.

Outstanding Returning Engaged Student

This award recognizes an outstanding engaged Centennial student who demonstrates exemplary campus and/or community involvement. This is awarded to a full-time Centennial College student. This awarded student has gone above and beyond in their service-based role.

Mona Wazi Ullah
eMentorship Program
Student Ambassador
Volunteer, Headphone Party
Virtual Student Panel
SAC Class Rep Program
Exchange Student Buddy Program
Centennial Connections and Thursdays Together
Leadership Retreat Winter 2023
Peer tutor
Tour guide
Street Team CCSAI
Volunteer for Grad Month SAC
Program Advisory Committee : Art and Design Fundamentals
FIRST Tech Challenge Provincial Championship: promote centennial to prospective students and guests answer inquiries and provide assistance

Outstanding Graduating Engaged Student

This award recognizes an outstanding engaged graduating Centennial student who demonstrates exemplary campus and/or community involvement. This is awarded to a full-time Centennial College student who is graduating in April 2023 and has gone above and beyond in their service-based role.

Ashna Makhija
President, Biotechnology Student Society
Mentor & Mentorship Manager, Biotech & Food Science Mentorship program
Lead organizer, National Engineering Month Event at Centennial College, promoting STEM careers to secondary schools
Co-ordinates 300 volunteers on 15 different BioSS student projects
Serving 750 students in the biotechnology department by creating invaluable resources and opportunities

Outstanding Student Leadership Award

This award recognizes student(s) who have demonstrated self-leadership, positively impacted others, and substantive impact on the Centennial College community. They have displayed various acts of leadership to create change and support others.

Madonna Villena
President, Centennial Toastmasters Club
Peer Tutor, Progress Campus Learning Centre
Volunteer, Fall 2022 Orientation
Volunteer, Winter 2023 Orientation
Volunteer, Centennial Leadership Academy (CLA) in its weekly tabling events at the college campuses
Volunteer, Season 8 Leadership Vibe Podcast (launched February 2023)
Leadership Retreat Winter 2023
Student Ambassador reporting to the Manager of Research and Strategic Initiatives Department
Distinction in Leadership Passport
Volunteered for Career Services' On-campus Employment Toolkit (launched Jan 2023)

Nadia Theresa Dua
Sergeant-at-Arms, Centennial Toastmasters Club
CCSAI Street Team
Distinction in Leadership Passport
Volunteer, Orientation
Centennialista Filipino Association Member