The Greater Vancouver Home Builders Association (GVHBA), in partnership with the Centra Cares Program, provides four annual scholarships in support of students in the BCIT Carpentry Framing and Forming Program. This year, the four deserving award recipients are Kyle Katerenchuk, Jesse Tregilges, Voytek Michalak and Matthew Vela. The students received their scholarships during the GVHBA Annual General … Read more
On Friday, March 24, 2017, there was much to celebrate at the Steel Trades shop on the BCIT Burnaby Campus: the first Marine Fitter Level 3 graduation, the conclusion of the pilot phase of the Marine Fitter program, and the BCIT Marine Fitter apprenticeship program soon accepting applications. Kathy Kinloch, President, BCIT, Jonathan Whitworth, CEO, … Read more
High school students are logging some impressive hours in BCIT health labs. The Burnaby School District has partnered with the BCIT School of Health Sciences to expose students to a wide range of career paths in the industry. Over eight months, grade 11 and 12 students enrolled in the District’s Industry Connect Health Sciences Program … Read more
Computer Systems Technology (CST) students welcomed special guests for an end-of-term demo this week. In teams of two or three, students were tasked by instructor D’Arcy Smith with using City of New Westminster Open Data while developing an android app of their choosing. The resulting apps ranged from games based off sewer system maps to … Read more
Congratulations to BCIT Computing instructor Medhat Elmasry, who was recently awarded Microsoft’s coveted Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his extensive community service, including numerous free public presentations over the past year, as well as initiating and organizing the .NETBC User Group. Microsoft has awarded the MVP awards for over 20 years to “technology experts … Read more
BCIT students were resplendent in yellow at last week’s SkillsBC competition in Abbotsford. Gold, Silver, and Bronze also happened to be popular colours for many of the talented competitors. SkillsBC is an annual, Olympic-style contest where students from Grade 6, all the way through Post-Secondary, showcase their trades & technology skills. Everything is on display, … Read more
BCIT Interior Design students have won first and second place in the 2017 IDEC (Interior Design Educators Council) Student Design Competition for the second year in a row – last year winning first, second and even third place. The project brief was titled ‘Design as an Agent of Social Change’, and focused on creating an … Read more
Congratulations to Mae Whyte, the Fish, Wildlife and Recreation student who won this year’s Together In Action Student Leadership Award from the Invasive Species Council of BC! Mae won the $1000 award for her wide-ranging efforts to raise awareness about—and physically tackle—invasive plant species on campus and beyond. She led the coordination of a removal, replanting, and education event on … Read more
Technical communication talent is highly prized – and emphasized – at BCIT. In fact, we recently enjoyed our annual celebration of these skills at the Presentation Idol competition. But it’s especially gratifying to see students take these skills beyond campus, as was the case at this year’s national Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC) held from March … Read more
Part of our ongoing Alumni Series BCIT prides itself on producing career-ready graduates. Knowing this, we’ve decided to track down some of our successful alumni and have them share their stories with us. Our first profile for our alumni series features Troy Abromaitis, a 2005 graduate of our Marketing Management, Commercial Real Estate program. We asked Troy to … Read more