From competing on Top Chef Canada to the pursuit of an Olympic dream, these SAIT graduates are our bright lights and big achievers from the past year.
December 13, 2018
From competing on Top Chef Canada to the pursuit of an Olympic dream, these SAIT graduates are our bright lights and big achievers from the past year.
Breaking glass and making it into something new is one of Michelle Atkinson’s (New Media Production and Design ’03) favourite past times. As the founder and artisan behind Jewelnotes, the SAIT grad creates jewelry, home décor and one-of-a-kind art with the delicate material. Following her dad’s...
When Kuzyk began her career more than 30 years ago, regulatory construction codes measured the minimum standard for public safety. Today Kuzyk is a leading expert in building codes who says social concerns — such as energy efficiency and wheelchair accessibility — are being translated into public...
Trojan Calvin Campbell (CCT ’03) fends off a player from the Concordia Thunder during the 2003 season, when the men’s soccer team won the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) Ron Lavery Fair Play Award. Trojans student-athletes are renowned for their determination and spirit, which...
FMD003: Flow management devices unidirectional captive displacement prover This meter prover introduces SAIT students and apprentices to equipment they’ll be using in the field. Inside SAIT’s Endress+Hauser Instrumentation Engineering Technology Process Lab are rows of metal stands fitted with meters...
That’s why SAIT journalism instructor and a SAIT Cisco Research Chair in e-Learning, Tyler Nagel, is researching how fake news impacts SAIT students. In a wide-ranging survey Nagel conducted in late 2017, a majority of the 1,467 students who responded confessed to inadvertently sharing inaccurate information...
As Alberta’s economy diversifies and Calgary places new energy into becoming a hub for innovation, SAIT continues to respond to growing industry demand. New seats for students In August, the provincial government announced 146 new spots for students in the School of Information and Communications Technologies...
After a strong showing by SAIT competitors at the 2018 Skills Canada Alberta Competition in May, five SAIT students won medals at the Skills Canada National Competition in June. Taylor Desjardins (shown above) took gold in Cabinetmaking and Brandon Mintz won gold in Precision Machining. Cassidy Lindseth...
On June 13, School of Business instructor Mike Clovechok received the title of emeritus during one of SAIT’s spring 2018 convocation ceremonies. He is the first instructor to receive the emeritus title, which is awarded to a retired employee who, through contributions to student success, teaching or research,...
In March, Festus Adebisi became a guest lecturer with the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), the world’s largest anti-fraud organization and premier provider of anti-fraud training and education. A Certified Fraud Examiner, Adebisi is one of only three Canadian guest lecturers with...
