Cynthia van Ginkel 
School of Computing and Academic Studies Dean Steve Eccles welcomed Vancouver Startup Week (VSW) to BCIT’s downtown Tech Hub this past Friday night for an all-weekend hackathon. The annual event kicks off a week that brings together diverse participants to celebrate and strengthen Greater Vancouver’s innovation and technology communities. Twenty-six teams of developers, designers, marketers, and entrepreneurs, helped … Read more
If variety is the spice of life, BCIT Computing Part-time Studies instructors are doing things right. By working in industry and sharing their knowledge with others, they keep themselves challenged while also enjoying a sense of giving back. Value in having working professionals as instructors Donabel Santos (pictured above), herself a BCIT Computer Systems Technology … Read more
BC’s K-12 teachers are gearing up for school to start. Last week, many of them came to BCIT to learn ways they can integrate computing into their classes. Teachers from across the province came together in a fun “unconference” model to work on lesson plans and get inspired for the new school year. Hosted at BCIT’s new … Read more
The headlines are scary: social media cyber security privacy breaches, fraudsters who steal from the elderly, international money laundering schemes. As technology continues to infiltrate all areas of our lives – not to mention our financial transactions – opportunities for fraud and financial crime are evolving and growing. For BCIT Grad Steve Wilson, this network … Read more
BCIT Computing frequently welcomes tech sector speakers into classrooms. These visits help students prepare for their careers and offer industry a chance to tell students what they’re looking for. This past year, MDA sent guest speakers Christian Nadeau, Engineering Manager, and Christopher Bow, a 2016 Computer Systems Technology (CST) grad who is now a Junior Software Engineer. They visited … Read more
Amazon Web Services Educator Roundtable to advise and assist AWS Educate in the development and advancement of cloud computing curriculum Amazon Web Services (AWS) invited Bill Klug, Computer Systems Technology (CST) Cloud Computing Option Head and BCIT Computing instructor, to serve on the inaugural AWS Educate Educator Roundtable. The Amazon Web Services educator roundtable was part … Read more
The first year of the BCIT Computer Systems Technology (CST) Diploma winds up with a five-week intensive team project. This year, guests from Metro Vancouver launched the challenge theme, “food waste,” with inspiration from their Love Food Hate Waste campaign. Karen Storry and Alison Schatz presented issues of concern, including the fact that nearly half of food waste … Read more
How do embryos develop so reliably? BCIT Mathematics instructor Dr. David Holloway is working on just that issue, and recently had a paper on it accepted by the Public Library of Science journal, PLOS ONE. The paper, entitled “Transcriptional bursting in Drosophila development: Stochastic dynamics of eve stripe 2 expression,” sounds – and is – … 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