Cynthia van Ginkel 
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
The 7th Annual Presentation Idol wrapped up this week, crowning Navtej Heir from Electrical Engineering as judges’ choice first place winner for the second year in a row. The event offered a fascinating field of topics to audience members who filled the Great Hall, ranging from robot design to building automation analytics. Navtej took home … Read more
Hardly a day goes by without some advice from the media about keeping yourself safe in cyberspace – stronger passwords, selective sharing, checking who kids are meeting online. Yet beyond our own personal cyber-footprint is a massive technical infrastructure that keeps our society running smoothly. With critical infrastructure ranging from transportation to water systems – … Read more
What’s a community-developed open source technology looking for a home to do? In 2014, CodeIgniter was lucky enough to find that home in Metro Vancouver, here at BCIT. Described as a “fully baked PHP framework” by its original developer, EllisLab, CodeIgniter is a “proven, agile and open web application framework with a small footprint.” It’s … Read more
We’re happy to announce that Dr. Bethany Edmunds is taking the helm of BCIT Computing as its new Associate Dean. Bethany has been at BCIT for almost seven years, most recently as the Program Head for the Computer Information Technology (CIT) Diploma. While overseeing CIT, Bethany initiated and planned the relocation to the Downtown Campus, … Read more
Article submitted by David McKay, Program Head, BCIT Forensic Science & Technology Another year, another holiday, another “gadget” added to your techno inventory. Whether you received a new iPhone, Android, tablet, laptop, iPad, or any other device with capabilities of getting you on the net to post your New Year’s selfie, or leave a glowing … Read more
Students from BC’s north now have a simpler path into a forensics career. BCIT’s Forensics department has announced a student transfer agreement with Northwest Community College (NWCC) in Terrace. The partnership gives successful grads of the NWCC Criminology Diploma program guaranteed admission into the third year of BCIT Forensics degree programs.* “It’s great to have an … Read more
Sometimes all you need is a sympathetic ear or some good pointers. That was the experience of Justin Hollander when he was a Computer Systems Technology (CST) student. “I was a ‘lost’ student for a while and deeply appreciated the guidance that helped me get back on track,” reflects Hollander, who is now taking his … Read more
It’s Hour of Code week, where people around the world try to spark an interest in coding to help address skill shortages and gender imbalances in the high tech sector. This year BCIT Computing went big with a train-the-trainer model, and welcomed about 85 K-12 teachers from across the Metro Region for Hour of Code: Deliver … Read more