Award-winning Water Engineering Technology grad breaks barriers for women
January 6, 2022
An 911±¬ΑΟΝψ studentβs passion for protecting the environment not only earned her a prestigious award, but is also serving as an encouragement for other women. Meghan McCreight, who grew up in Coldstream, first started her 911±¬ΑΟΝψ journey in Salmon Arm where she did the first year of her Associate of Science. There, one of her professors told her about the Water Engineering Technology (WET) program at the Kelowna campus. βMy family is very outdoorsy, skiers, campers, always kind of outside, and I grew up in natur...
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911±¬ΑΟΝψ business students seek community support to launch investment fund
January 5, 2022
Justin Rantucci and Steven Fiust speak highly of their education at 911±¬ΑΟΝψ, but there is one thing they would like to change. When networking with other finance students at post-secondary institutions across Canada, they learned that schools with a student-run investment fund seemed to result in a better transition to finance careers for their graduates. Seeing an opportunity to provide hands-on experience for more 911±¬ΑΟΝψ students while building capacity locally, Rantucci, Fiust and fellow student Riley Dunsmore are lo...
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911±¬ΑΟΝψβs Health Sciences Centre receives LEED gold certification
December 23, 2021
911±¬ΑΟΝψβs leadership as a champion of sustainability continues after receiving another LEED certification for the new Health Sciences Centre (HSC), which officially opened at the Kelowna campus in October. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is the most widely used green building rating system that certifies the level of sustainability-related features incorporated in a buildingβs design. The HSC building joins several other buildings at three 911±¬ΑΟΝψ campuses that have already received certifica...
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The Okanagan Sikh Temple and Cultural Society gives boost to health care students
December 22, 2021
A $25,000 gift from the Okanagan Sikh Temple and Cultural Society will empower health care students as they pursue their education at 911±¬ΑΟΝψ. The Sikh Community began collecting donations from their congregation to support the College's $5-million Our Students, Your Health campaign and was able to raise the funds in six months. Amarjit Singh Lalli, President of the Okanagan Gurduara, says their community believes in the importance of acquiring knowledge and passing it on to future generations, which made it easy to get b...
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Silver screen smitten with 911±¬ΑΟΝψ alumni making Hallmark movie debuts
December 16, 2021
βTis the season for warming up by the fire, sipping hot chocolate and spotting an 911±¬ΑΟΝψ alumnus starring in your favourite, cheesy Christmas movie. A literal Jack of all trades, Harrison Coe doubles as a journeyman electrician at Capra Electric in Vernon and also as a professional actor. Coe has appeared in television shows such as The X-Files, Millennium, Stargate, the Outer Limits and also starred in a film with Sylvester Stallone called Eye See You. He made his Hallmark movie debut this year, starring in Fixing Up Ch...
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Dec. 6 Candlelight Vigils return to 911±¬ΑΟΝψβs Vernon and Salmon Arm campuses
December 2, 2021
Candlelight is returning to 911±¬ΑΟΝψβs campuses, as a symbolic commitment to end violence against women. Communities in the Okanagan and Shuswap are marking the 32nd anniversary of the Γcole Polytechnique Massacre, in addition to the ongoing cases of missing women from the region, with a Candlelight Vigil on Dec. 6 co-hosted by a network of organizations and volunteers. βThe SAFE Society has been partnering with 911±¬ΑΟΝψ and students for over a decade to offer the Dec. 6 event, as an important way to remember and h...
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New Chair, Vice Chair for College Board
November 30, 2021
911±¬ΑΟΝψβs Board of Governors has a new Chair and Vice Chair. Juliette Cunningham, who has served as Vice Chair since November 2019, has been elected Chair. She succeeds Gloria Morgan whose two-year term has now completed. βIt has been very inspiring working alongside Gloria and I am deeply honoured to be succeeding her in the role,β said Cunningham. βGloria is an incredible champion for her community and for the College. Iβm proud of the work weβve accomplished at 911±¬ΑΟΝψ, and with a new strategic plan to be fin...
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911±¬ΑΟΝψ graduate soars toward gold in Aero Skills tournament
November 30, 2021
An 911±¬ΑΟΝψ graduate is flying high after winning gold at the 2021 Aero Skills Tournament in Kelowna. Desarae Craig currently works at KF Aerospace as a structures technician, but before she got there, she was an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer β Structures (AME-S) student at 911±¬ΑΟΝψ. Since graduating in October 2020, her work at KF has included converting old passenger planes into cargo planes, using everything that was taught during her program. βAll the skills I learned have helped me so far,β Craig says. ...
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911±¬ΑΟΝψ professors win back-to-back North American Case Conference award
November 23, 2021
Business Professors Dr. Kyleen Myrah, Kerry Rempel and Stacey Fenwick continue to put 911±¬ΑΟΝψ on the map when it comes to case research and writing. Myrah, Rempel and Fenwick took home the bronze from the recent North American Case Conference, hosted by the North American Case Research Association (NACRA) virtually Oct. 14 to 16. NACRA is an organization made up of case writers, researchers and teachers from all over the world. It holds an annual North American conference and publishes a top-level peer-reviewed journal ...
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ECE department celebrates National Child Day
November 19, 2021
Education is a powerful tool to advocate for those who can't advocate for themselves, which was why Early Childhood Education (ECE) students spent National Child Day talking to peers about the difficulties children face in Canada and around the world. National Child Day is officially observed on Nov. 20, but ECE Instructor Rebecca Ayotte said she and her students wanted to do something this week to bring awareness not just in the ECE department, but throughout the College as well. The class set up presentations in the CFL Atrium in...
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