News and Stories
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...
Lakeland's Safe Spaces: allies to the LGBTQ+ community
A visual representation of support for individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirited, queer and questioning (LGBTQ+) are now in various areas of Lakeland College. Marked around the Lloydminster and Vermilion campuses are rainbow-hued Safe Space stickers, a design approved...
HOPE students hired to Energy Centre operation
Lakeland College offers a tremendous opportunity studies for second-year heavy oil power engineering students to take their first career steps during their studies. Students are hired as student operators and tasked to operate the Lloydminster campus and Energy Centre boilers on weekends. “Working...
Lakeland alumna sees the classroom from the other side of the podium
Lakeland alumna Dr. Katie Lafreniere credits the support of one particular Lakeland College business instructor with giving her the confidence to pursue academia as a career. She began her career as an assistant professor at the University of Lethbridge this summer. Lafreniere came to Lakeland...