Pride Parade is an opportunity to walk along a large group of folks, from diverse backgrounds, to promote sexual inclusion and diversity. This socially constructive march is a powerfully symbolic social action. It unifies like-minded people and gives space to those who have been on the fringe of social acceptability for far too long. As … Read more
Welcome back to my story aboard the Vision of the Seas, sailing with Royal Caribbean. How do cruise ship companies decide when and where to send there ships to? The ships can’t just sail into any port they please, unload 4000 people, hangout for 9 hours waiting for the guests to come back, then cast off to … Read more
Michael Averill is set to perform at the Honda Celebration Of Light this week. The Music Business alumnus earned the stage after raising almost $8000 for music therapy through the Covers For The Cause campaign. Michael’s efforts will go to St. James Music Academy, which works on Vancouver’s downtown east side. It’s an organization he’s worked with for a couple of years. The … Read more
As the old TV trope goes, “never work with children or animals”. Well, we broke at least half the rules this summer as dozens of young broadcasters took over the television production studios at the BCIT Burnaby Campus. The budding newscasters, ranging in ages from 8-12, produced their very own TV show at this year’s … Read more
Welcome back to the continuation of my story with BCIT. After I got back from the Jackman with 139 days of sea time, the 2nd term of school began. This was more rigorous than the first one and was geared towards developing actual officer knowledge of how to navigate and run the internal process of your … Read more
September 3rd, 2013 is the day I started the Nautical Sciences program at BCIT. The program is centralized around two elements: the school phase and the sea phase. The school phase The school part is pretty straight forward: you’re given six months in school to complete a certain volume of classes, get acquainted with principle operations of the ship, … Read more
Ever heard of an Arduino kit? Raspberry pi? What about a Vive? Neither had many of the people at the BCIT library’s Tech Expo. Over the past year the BCIT library has made significant investment into acquiring and supporting new technologies for our patrons. Hoping to promote our efforts, we hosted a Tech Expo on … Read more
Tsue Andersen remembers her first time holding a prosthetic limb. She was 10 years old and was volunteering at a national level para-swim meet when she was asked to carry one of the athlete’s prosthetic legs to the other side of the pool. “It was really cool, but all I remember thinking is, ‘are legs … Read more
BCIT Civil Engineering students Ryan Kroeker and Casey von Hahn spend most of their time in Burnaby, British Columbia, studying with the BCIT School of Construction and the Environment. This summer, however, they’re in Kathmandu, Nepal. Ryan and Casey are working as Earthquake Engineering Interns, helping the area become more earthquake resilient. They are blogging about their experience. … Read more
This story first appeared in The Vancouver Sun, June 24 , 2017 with credit to Michael Bernard– Postmedia Content Works. When award-winning CBC investigative journalist Diana Swain was thinking about what she would tell graduating students at the British Columbia Institute of Technology’s convocation ceremony Friday, she hit on the idea of “disinterested advice”: advice … Read more