Technology Apprenticeship

Donation helps expand HOOT & power engineering training courses

Here’s some great news for people wanting to get into the heavy oil operations technician and power engineering field.

Thanks to the generosity of Allan Markin, a donation totaling $200,000 has...
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New pre-employment hairstyling program to start soon

Dying to run your hands through someone's hair? Lakeland College's new 26-week pre-employment certificate hairstylist program is the place to start. The program is planned to begin in February.

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Lakeland Regional Skills competition returns to Lakeland

Lakeland College is tooling up to host approximately 90 high school students from schools at Mannville, Camrose, Lloydminster, Tofield, Vermilion and Kitscoty at the Vermilion campus on April 19 for...  Read more...

Triple play of provincial awards for Lakeland apprentices

Lakeland carried on its winning tradition in a big way at this year’s awards banquet of the Alberta Apprenticeship & Industry Training Branch held in Edmonton on Friday, April 13.

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Trades in good hands with skills competitors

This year’s Lakeland Regional Skills Competition brought out the best among high school students taking trades training at area high schools as Grade 11 and 12 students from Mannville, Camrose,

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Skills competition plugs in to valuable lessons for students

It was right down to the wire for student Trevor Charron at last year’s provincial skills competition. His work in the electrical category would eventually earn him a trip to the Skills Canada

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Electrical instructors train to teach solar installations

electrical instructors train for solar installationIvan Cusack, John Klatt and Scott Pratt are three electrical instructors with a sunny outlook on the future.

After recently returning from Murietta, Calif., the trio is one step closer to becoming...
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Wired to teach using humour to keep it light

Ivan cusack electricalIn the 1970s, if there was a practical joke played at Clandonald School, chances are that a young student named Ivan Cusack had something to do with it. Today, over 30 years later, if there was a...  Read more...

More industry awards for interior design students

It’s a triple three-peat. For the ninth consecutive year, Lakeland students in the interior design technology program earned top place finishes in two international student design competitions....  Read more...

Pre-employment welding program yields jobs

Success in Lakeland College’s four-month pre-employment welding program has sparked new full-time careers – complete with great pay and benefits – for three young men just recently...  Read more...

Truck transformation offers unique teaching tool

As far as training aids go, there are few at Lakeland College as eye-catching as the 2007 Ford F650 in the Trades Centre at the Vermilion campus.

“We purchased a used cab and chassis a few years...
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Skills Competition 2011

(April 27, 2011—Vermilion, Alta.) The future of trades in the local area appears to be in good hands based on the skilled performances of 48 high school students from Lloydminster, Mannville,...  Read more...

$25,000 from ADM to help develop second class power engineering training

Lakeland College’s goal to increase training opportunities that will result in more qualified power engineers in the Alberta/Saskatchewan region received a boost from Archer Daniels Midland...  Read more...

Welding student raps his way to Aboriginal awards show

When Tyler Bear moved into residence at the Vermilion campus this fall, he hauled in bedding, groceries, his welding helmet, and a mini-recording studio.  The first year welding apprentice...  Read more...

Pre-employment program helps Calgary resident start instrumentation career

For more than a year, Devin Danielson tried to get into the instrumentation field, but companies wouldn’t hire him because he didn’t have experience.

The 34-year-old was working in safety...
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Lakeland claims multiple top apprenticeship honours at provincial awards banquet

It was a high-powered event for Lakeland College at this year’s Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training Branch awards banquet in Edmonton on April 8.

Lakeland instructor Randy Hobbis

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