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Government Supports ARIS

by Carolynn Semeniuk | April 4, 2012
Alberta’s sports and wellness community will receive greater support thanks to federal funding announced last March by the Honourable Lynne Yelich, Minister of State for Western... Read More »

Good to the Last Drop

by Michelle Woodward | April 4, 2012
In an industry with tight margins, restaurant and bar owners need to make sure every last drop of beer in a keg counts. Pouring a proper draught beer can be tricky. Tilt the glass... Read More »

Reality Shannon

by Todd Kimberley | April 4, 2012
Most recently, she was one of three directors responsible for the highly anticipated Real Housewives of Vancouver, which brought the popular TV franchise north of the border in early... Read More »

Top restaurateur joins Highwood team

by Nicole Shepherd | February 28, 2012
The woman behind the award-winning restaurant Il Sogno, which translates to ‘the dream’ in Italian, will be fulfilling a lifelong aspiration as the newest instructor at SAIT’... Read More »

SAIT hopes to slide Canada into Olympic Gold at Sochi

by Nicole Shepherd | February 23, 2012
Dr. Alex Zahavich, SAIT’s Director of Applied Research and Innovation Services (ARIS) and lead researcher in sports and wellness engineering technology, says having all three men... Read More »

An Occasion for Celebration

by Eric Rosenbaum | January 2, 2012
The annual President’s Gala was held in honour of two of SAIT’s closest friends and supporters. SAIT President and CEO Irene Lewis presented Shell Canada with the President’s... Read More »

Operation Expansion

by Lori Pichette | January 2, 2012
As project manager of the Trades and Technology Complex campus expansion, Millington represents SAIT in overseeing the budget, schedule, quality control system and logistics planning... Read More »

International Trades Olympics

by John Dumonceaux | November 23, 2011
The scene at the Excel Centre in London, England early last October could easily have been taken as the site of Olympic competition. But it was WorldSkills 2011, where some of the... Read More »

Remembering Clayton Carroll

by SAIT Polytechnic | September 27, 2011
Clayton Carroll’s name became forever-linked with SAIT in 2002 when the newly-built Clayton Carroll Automotive Centre was named in gratitude of its primary donor. As a SAIT alumnus... Read More »

Stone Reveals the Heart of Jackson's Garden

by Carolynn Semeniuk | September 27, 2011
A group of children sits at a picnic table beside a garden on a sunny afternoon. They’re laughing and dipping long stalks of freshly-picked rhubarb in a plate of sugar. One of the... Read More »

A Decade of Seeing: Chinook Lodge Celebrates its 10th Year

by Carolynn Semeniuk | July 25, 2011
Lori Villebrun wandered through a grocery store in the community of Hay River, 1000km north of Edmonton. She had been living away from her home for several years and was happy to see... Read More »

An Unforgetable Royal Visit

by Heather Setka | July 25, 2011
Baking and pastry arts student Roxanne Coogan says she has never felt “all that dazzled by royalty” in the past. Even when she learned the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were coming... Read More »

SAIT Cooking Grads Compete in Top Chef Canada

by Annalise Klingbeil | July 25, 2011
It’s a Monday night in June and Connie DeSousa’s fans, friends, family, and even her high school foods teacher have gathered at CHARCUT Roast House in downtown Calgary to cheer... Read More »

Let them Eat SAIT Cake

by Alison O'Connor | July 6, 2011
Daoust along with fellow alumna Tracie Zahavich graduated from SAIT’s Baking and Pastry Arts program in May of this year but they were asked to come back as volunteers on a special... Read More »

SAIT Polytechnic to Lead Study of Whistler Sliding Centre Track

by SAIT Polytechnic | July 4, 2011
SAIT Polytechnic’s Sports and Wellness Engineering Technology applied research group has been selected by Whistler Sport Legacies (WSL) to lead a trajectory study of the Whistler... Read More »

Student Saves Life of SAIT Instructor

by Rosey Hwang | July 4, 2011
A SAIT Diagnostic Medical Sonography student had no idea that her first live ultrasound lab would result in a life-saving discovery, but lucky for her volunteer patient it did just... Read More »

Pastry Guild Showcase 2011

by dee Hobsbawn-Smith | April 15, 2011
It's sometimes hard to be taken seriously when you make sweet things for a living. Dessert may be viewed as a frivolity, not a necessity. Whose waistline really needs another fleur... Read More »

Get Into the Game

by Todd Kimberley | April 15, 2011
Every Friday and Saturday night during the college sports season, a group of SAIT Polytechnic television and broadcast news students gathers in Room V129 of the Campus Centre and gets... Read More »

The Case for College Athletics

by Todd Kimberley | April 15, 2011
He barely made the SAIT Trojans men’s volleyball team during fall tryouts in 1997. During his second season with the Trojans when the team won a provincial bronze medal, he served... Read More »

SAIT a Leader in Looking After People

by Cathi Bishop | February 17, 2011
What makes a great workplace? Just look at SAIT Polytechnic to find out. Today, SAIT was named one of Alberta’s Top 50 Employers for 2011 by Mediacorp Canada Inc. It’s the second... Read More »

Do Something Different and Have a Whole Lot of Fun

by Shirley Piersma | February 17, 2011
“The ideal summer camp for kids should not only be interesting and skill-building but a whole lot of fun,” says Andrea Jaros, Coordinator for SAIT Summer Camps. “There is a great... Read More »

SAIT breaks ground with new degree

February 17, 2011
SAIT Polytechnic is launching a new degree this fall that will prepare graduates to accelerate their entry into project management within Canada’s lucrative construction industry... Read More »

2010 Outstanding Young Alumnus - Matt Squires

by Christie Simmons | January 7, 2011
Matt Squires (Hotel and Restaurant Management ’01) could not have guessed that Alice Cooper would be giving him a leg up where career choices were concerned. But when he thinks back... Read More »

Art Evolves

by Matthew Janz | December 15, 2010
A pioneer of Canadian industrial design, Lawrie McIntosh has pushed design boundaries by creating new ways to produce items which we use every day.  In the 1960s, McIntosh designed... Read More »

Creative Precision

by Melanie Jones | December 1, 2010
Outside of mastering technical skills, Kirk Dunkley wasn’t like the other students in his program. While the rest of his classmates were concerned about landing a job in a shop,... Read More »

Construction LEEDs to bright future

by Rebekah Jarvis | September 7, 2010
When the Trades and Technology Complex is finished in 2012 it won’t just be the pretty new face of SAIT. Each of the three buildings will meet the stiff requirements needed to earn... Read More »

Simulation Raises the Bar in the Classroom

by Alison O'Connor | September 7, 2010
What are the ingredients in a Blue Hawaii? What order do these ingredients go in the glass? Which glass do you use? Do you need a garnish? Shaken or stirred? Would you salt the rim... Read More »
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