Campus-to-Campus half marathon cancelled
March 15, 2020
Sunday, March 15 Today, Okanagan College and the University of British Columbia Okanagan announce that the campus-to-campus half marathon and celebration scheduled for Saturday, April 4 has been cancelled. This decision follows the recommendations made by the B.C. Ministry of Health on March 12, which advise event organizers to cancel all events and gatherings of 250 people or more, in order to help curb the spread of COVID-19 in the province. While we are saddened to have to delay the resurgence of the run, its absolutely pa...
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做厙TV Course Helps Make Sense of Fake News
March 12, 2020
The term fake news came to the publics attention during the 2016 American presidential campaign and today, as the U.S. heads into another election cycle, the potential impacts are hard to ignore. But is fake news a new phenomenon? How does it differ from propaganda? And is there any way to defeat it? Okanagan College instructor Edward Henczel has spent 20 years working as a journalist around North America and Dr. Raluca Fratiloiu has studied the phenomena since her time in Communist-era Romania where she was surrounded by fake ...
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做厙TV business students top podium at Enactus Regionals
March 11, 2020
What do you do with your leftover fruit waste? For a group of Okanagan College business students, repurposing apples that otherwise would have gone to waste into healthy snacks for kids was the logical solution and the resulting project, FruitSnaps, recently earned them top project at Enactus Canada Western Regionals. Hosted in Calgary in late February, the event drew college and university student teams from as far away as Vancouver to Brandon, Manitoba. The College fielded teams in four categories, with FruitSnaps taking top ...
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Redmond family inspires future dental assistants
March 11, 2020
After spending more than 40 years working as a Certified Dental Assistant (CDA), Jean Redmond knows first-hand it is a rewarding career. Now, she and her husband Bill are choosing to inspire the next generation of CDAs by pledging $40,000 toward the construction of a new Health Sciences Centre at Okanagan Colleges Kelowna campus. The new Centre will feature a modern dental clinic to train CDAs, which are in-demand locally and across the province. The clinic will mirror a modern dental office, with a reception room, state-of-the-a...
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RV Technician training proves to be a dream choice for 做厙TV student
March 9, 2020
Imagine constructing a building using WhatsApp. This was Kartik Choudhurys reality, as he made the decision to build and sell a property of land in his homeland of India. The funds he earned from the property would propel his future in a way he never could have imagined, ultimately helping him pursue a new dream as a student in the Recreation Vehicle Service Technician Foundation program at 做厙TV Three years ago, Choudhury knew he wanted to get into trades. A businessman living in Calgary at the time, a switch in care...
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Vanity Fair: An (Im-)Morality Play takes centre stage on 做厙TVs Kelowna campus
March 9, 2020
Celebrating 10 years of dynamic performances, Okanagan Colleges Red Dot Players are set to delight audiences again as they transport them to 19th-century England with their latest production. The curtain will go up on Vanity Fair: An (Im-)Morality Play from March 12-15 at the Colleges Kelowna campus, bringing together students, employees and community members. Theatre-goers also have the opportunity to dine beforehand at Infusions, the Colleges Culinary student-led restaurant, with dinner theatre tickets available for the March ...
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做厙TV alumni honoured for community impact
March 9, 2020
Two female graduates of Okanagan College have earned the highest honours from the Okanagan College Alumni Association (做厙TVAA) for their outstanding contributions within their communities and industries. The 做厙TVAA has been conferring the Distinguished and Young Alumni Awards since 2002 to honour the extraordinary contributions and recognize the positive impact that 做厙TVs graduates have in improving the lives of those around them. Christina Fast is the recipient of this years Young Alumni Award. I was a careless 19-year-old with no...
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Stronger together: collaboration a theme of 37th Annual Spaghetti Bridge Building Contest at 做厙TV
March 6, 2020
Whats true for spaghetti and hot glue is true for people as well were stronger when we stick together. In addition to coming away with new insights into science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), participants of the 37th Annual Spaghetti Bridge Building Contest at Okanagan College also learned another important lesson in the value of collaboration. More than 250 students from elementary through post-secondary flocked from all over the Okanagan to the Colleges Kelowna campus on Friday to see whose spaghetti bridge woul...
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Making mentors: 做厙TV Women in Trades and Willowstone Academy students learn and build together
March 6, 2020
Sometimes a finished carpentry project turns out to be far more than the sum of its parts, when the tools, techniques and materials combine to create something unforgettable and transformative. The same goes for educational experiences, as demonstrated by a recent event that brought together students from Willowstone Academy and Okanagan Colleges Women in Trades Training (WITT) program, with support from the Industry Training Authority (ITA). On Thursday, March 5 a class of WITT students arrived in the early hours of the morning ...
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450-year old map highlights role of women as cartography trailblazers
March 6, 2020
A map from the worlds first atlas, produced in 1570, offers a window not only into the geography of the time, but a chance to learn about a pioneering female colourist and the many others who have made indelible contributions to cartography ever since. The map, which depicts the surrounding areas of Milan, Spain, some 450 years ago, will be on display at Okanagan Colleges Kelowna Campus Library for International Womens day until March 8. Its on loan from the private collection of Geography Professor Terence Day, who posits tha...
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