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Social savvy student shares enviro program adventures
From releasing raptors back into the wild to building shelters during a survival night, there's little that Stephanie Sitkowski does not share about her Lakeland College experience. Known as greeneyedgirl626 on Instagram, the second-year environmental sciences student is using the platform to...
60 years and counting for Emergency Training Centre
For more than six decades, Lakeland's Emergency Training Centre (ETC) has trained leaders for the frontline of emergency services. When ETC—then known as the Fire Officers Training School—opened in 1959 under the jurisdiction of the Alberta Fire Commissioner's Office, approximately 100 aspiring...
Alumna combines passion for horses and trades
j'Amey Bevan's journey from a downtown Vancouver city girl to the chair of the Government of Alberta's Apprenticeship & Industry Training Board is a complex one. She charted her own course, blending her love for the trades with her love of horses. Her first step on that journey was Lakeland College. A...
Designing for a sustainable future
Second-year interior design technology students grew their skills in sustainable design thanks to a locally sourced project. They were assigned to design a sustainable home for a fictitious client based on the Trout Pond in Vermilion Provincial Park. The project combined what the students have...
Math Fair mixes math and play
As when solving any math equation, students in Lakeland College's university transfer program's higher arithmetic course carefully examined all variables when designing their games for Math Fair. First, they had to propose three different games to their instructors and have them evaluated to ensure...