“Developing my entrepreneurial projects through SIFE Acadia, I received excellent advising and gained invaluable hands on experience. Most people can think of a great idea, but SIFE Acadia helps you understand how to stop talking and start doing."

- Erick Kainen, Acadia University Alumni

"Nothing in my university experience was as worthwhile as my experience with ACE."

- Nigel Vanderlinden, ACE Alumnus, Wilfrid Laurier University;
and Business Development Manager, Research in Motion

"I can't tell you all the ways the ACE program makes a difference to my students. It builds them into adults and citizens…it's marvelous."

- Bob Walpole, John Dobson ACE Fellow, Canadore College

"ACE has driven me to set my goals high and pursue them with the utmost passion."

- Alicia Konefal, ACE Student, Brock University

"ACE really allows our students to take what they learn in the classroom and demonstrate how they can use it in other ways in the community. It really enhances the whole experience on the campus."

- Wendelin Fraser, Dean, Bissett School of Business, Mount Royal College

"Through ACE, students learn a different way to learn…it's learning through doing, it's putting something into practice."

- Duncan Noble, John Dobson ACE Fellow, Mount Allison University

"ACE has greatly shaped my career choices. Through one of our projects, I met someone running a rapidly growing firm and I must have made an impression on him because he basically recruited me after the project. Now I'm still in school and running a division of the company that is targeting a million in sales this year."

- Dave Hanley, ACE Student, Wilfrid Laurier University

"ACE provides student leaders with a vehicle to realize our visions, set goals, reach dreams and create positive changes within our campus, communities and province."

- Kristi Kelly, ACE Student, University of Prince Edward Island

"ACE is truly something great. It's not only a learning opportunity but it's an opportunity to grow and develop yourself."

- Dixon Chow, ACE Alumnus, British Columbia Institute of Technology;
and Real Estate Broker, J.J. Barnicke Vancouver Ltd.