SAIT has joined forces with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in a novel research project that combines the unique capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs — commonly known as drones) with the methane detecting capabilities of NASA’s Open Path Laser Spectrometer (OPLS). Originally...
SAIT graduate Jenn Five has built an international career photographing some of music’s biggest names for magazines like Billboard, Rolling Stone and NME.
Skateboard Art Calgary-based brothers Adrian and Martinus Pool create art from recycled wood including old barn boards, recycled flooring and broken skateboards. Martinus talks with link’s Eric Rosenbaum about inspiration, invention and working with family. ADRIAN POOL (ACPP ’13) AND MARTINUS POOL...
What do you get SAIT’s oldest known alumnus for his 103rd birthday? For starters, a high-tech, SAIT branded metal cribbage board, machined by staff and students in our state of the art metal machine shop. That’s the first gift. The second is the Clarence Hollingworth Scholarship created in honour...
SAIT grad and world-class chef Rosalyn Ediger returns to her alma mater to teach the next generation of chefs at SAIT.
Leah Hennel always knew what she wanted to be when she grew up, thanks to a subscription her mom gave her to National Geographic. She remembers flipping through the pages, imagining what it’d be like to travel the world with a camera in hand. From the beginning, the SAIT Journalism grad (1998)...
“I pride myself on how my photos show everyday life to people in an uncommon way.” That is how Darcy Cheek sums up his style of news photography — an approach that sustained his career as a reporter and an award-winning photographer in community press for more than three decades. Cheek...
Cameras don’t judge. They document. As a forensic video analyst with the Calgary Police Service, I study video images, frame by frame, to help reveal what they’ve captured: A guy in a grey hoodie with a cigarette burn on the left sleeve; a dark green minivan with decals on the back window representing...
On weekdays, Jordan Chappell runs children’s programs at the Graham Community Library in Ralston, Alta. On weekends, she works the circulation desk at the Brooks Public Library — and plays as linebacker with the Calgary Rage women’s tackle football team. The 24-year-old — whose mother and grandmother...
n harnessing the power of online marketing, entrepreneurs like Jenn Silver have the ability to reclaim their brands’ narrative. Silver is the founder and co-owner of Wild & Raw Superfood + Juice Bar in Calgary. The business started as a pop-up juice stand before Silver opened up shop in a Kensington-based...
