Mohawk Advertising students dominate at Canadian Marketing Association Awards: win 5 of 6 medals

Mohawk College Advertising students dominated at the 2009 Canadian Marketing Association (CMA) Awards held Nov. 27 in Toronto, winning five of six medals with two gold, two silver and one bronze in the student creative and marketing case competitions.

Congratulations to Mohawk's medal-winning students:

Hailey Barton, Sara Pilger, Amanda Baldaia and Katherine Perla (Gold -- Creative Case)

Lindsay Durk and Violet Karbalaei (Gold -- Marketing Case)

Mark Roberts, Brandon Walker, Charlene Gibbins and Dan Genuardi (Silver -- Creative Case)

Samhana Hwang and Andreea Pohrib (Silver -- Marketing Case)

Vicki Skarupa, Ashley Hinks, Kyle Koscak, Ashley Windisch (Bronze -- Creative Case)

Mohawk Advertising students have won 20 Gold, Silver and Bronze CMA Awards in the past 12 years.

Students in the creative case competition developed a direct mail campaign for a calorie monitoring armband device while the marketing case challenged students to create a marketing campaign for seniors' video games.

It was the second major win in less than a month for Mark Roberts and Brandon Walker who won a Merit Award at the Advertising and Design Club of Canada Directions Awards Show with classmates Phil Bauer, Loretta Lui and Sean Sirianni. We also had another Gold at the CMAs.

The CMA medal-winning Advertising students were coached and mentored by Mohawk faculty Jef Petrossi and Cathy Ozols.

Read the creative case here: http://www.the-cma.org/awards/awards.asp?WCE=C=47|K=229155

Read the marketing case here: http://www.the-cma.org/awards/awards.asp?WCE=C=47|K=229156