Collaboration & Partnerships
Families and community at the heart of Enactus GreenScreen technology initiative
April 9, 2020
GreenScreen is bigger than just a technology recycling program. Its about people and helping build connections. An initiative launched by Okanagan Colleges Enactus team in 2019, the project works to repurpose technology such as phones, laptops and tablets, saving them from the landfill and connecting them with families in need. The team consists of students Isaac Hossmann, Emily Pilon, Rachel Wehrmann and Maya Samaddar, and aided by College professor Devin Rubadeau. Working alongside Kelowna Cell Repair, Columbia Bottle Depot an...
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How to play in todays reality: A Q&A with Beverlie Dietze, Play Expert
March 31, 2020
Social-distancing is the name of the game for all of us right now. But getting outside, whether it be in your backyard or your neighbourhood, when following the provinces guidance, remains an important way for us to keep moving says an Okanagan College outdoor play expert. In early March, before the onset of COVID-19 halted such gatherings, the College hosted an outdoor play workshop alongside Outland Design and New Monaco in Peachland. This unique opportunity gave residents a chance to learn more about outdoor and unstructured pl...
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Specialized Training Offered by Lillooet Tribal Council and Okanagan College
March 26, 2020
The Community Adult Learning Centre in Lillooet, B.C., recently partnered with Okanagan College to offer the Introduction to Office Administration training program, a fast-track program designed to build essential office skills necessary to job readiness in the field. Community consultation and local job vacancies highlighted a need for office administration. Yvonne LaRochelle, manager for the Community Adult Learning Centre, set out to close the gap between those in need of work and the office administration jobs available in her...
Read more...Tom Budd sponsors health care tuition
March 26, 2020
Local businessman and philanthropist Tom Budd is giving residents an opportunity to win free tuition toward a health care career at 做厙TV Budd, along with local radio stations Virgin Radio and Sun FM, are offering the contest called Wishin for Tuition across the Valley until April 12. Residents can win up to $5,000 toward their tuition to one of any 10 Health Sciences programs at 做厙TV The programs offered range from nursing to Early Childhood Education and Pharmacy Technician. The prize money is coming ...
Read more...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 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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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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Renowned social media expert debunks digital myths in latest book
March 5, 2020
Social media is free. Millennials are all social media experts. Businesses have to be available 24/7. Psychologist Ian MacRae will address these and other social media myths during an upcoming book launch and discussion at Okanagan College in Kelowna on Wednesday, March 25. The date will mark the international debut for his latest book, Myths of Social Media: Dismiss the Misconceptions and Use Social Media Effectively in Business (published by Kogan Page, 2020), which he co-authored with Michelle Carvill. Everyone knows that soc...
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Students seize opportunity at CICan Student Showcase on Parliament Hill, Ottawa
February 28, 2020
For third- and fourth-year Bachelor of Computer Science students Jack Humphrey and Christopher Mazur, showcasing their project on network optimization at Parliament Hill was an opportunity that opened doors and forged connections. Held in the National Arts Centre, Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) on the Hill is a two-day conference, running February 26-27, geared towards connecting college and institute leaders with parliamentarians. The Student Showcase did just that, offering students from across Canada in any academic dis...
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Families, dont miss this free outdoor play workshop
February 26, 2020
Do you know a child who loves to stomp in the mud, look under rocks to see what crawly creatures might be living underneath or challenge themselves to walk the tightrope of a fallen log? Children will have a unique opportunity to express their creativity and engage their sense of wonder at an upcoming outdoor play workshop in March. A loose parts play date and open house will be happening on Saturday, March 7 from 10 a.m. noon at Cousins Park on Beach Avenue and 6th Street in Peachland. The event is being hosted by Okanagan Coll...
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RBC On Campus powers up financial literacy space at Okanagan College
February 25, 2020
A new collaboration between Okanagan College and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) will help 做厙TV students tap into free financial literacy support and services from RBC advisors. On Monday, RBC officially opened the new RBC On Campus financial literacy hub outside the Library on the second-floor mezzanine level of the Centre for Learning at the Kelowna campus. The space will be open from 9 a.m. 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. Students will be able to drop in, free of charge, to speak with RBC advisors who can help students on a host of to...
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Okanagan teens take on booming tech industry at JABC TechWorks
February 20, 2020
More than 200 teens from high schools throughout the Okanagan spent their Thursday on 做厙TVs Kelowna campus for a full day learning about technology and innovation. Organized by Junior Achievement British Columbia (JABC), the day focused on introducing middle school-aged students to the vast variety of opportunities that permeate the tech world. The morning opened with a plenary, led by Andrew MacLean, co-founder of HighTech U, a learning community based out of the University of Victoria. Other speakers included Okanagan College Regi...
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Pushing the green building envelope: builders and educators working together
February 19, 2020
Okanagan College, UBC, City of Kelowna co-host net zero life cycle workshop Workshops often involve questions and answers; this one focused on the real-world queries and solutions that may unlock a greener future for us all. Okanagan College, the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBC Okanagan), the City of Kelowna and a host of industry partners convened in Kelowna at the Innovation Centre on Tuesday. Building Net Zero was a one-day workshop designed to bring together building and energy innovators to tackle an ambitious ...
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Signature Speaker Series explores slavery, murder, and piracy on the high seas
February 19, 2020
How do piracy, human trafficking and other serious international maritime crimes relate to commercial fisheries and the choices we are left with as a consumer? How does one go about solving cold cases? What is it like to defuse a hostage crisis and provide support to victims in the aftermath? Karsten von Hoesslin will delve into all this and more during his presentation Slavery, Murder, and Piracy on the High Seas: Is there a direct line between human trafficking and the seafood that ends up on your plate? on Monday, March 2...
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Chefs Table Society sets up Harry McWatters Scholarship Fund
February 13, 2020
A Canadian wine icon is honoured scholarship will fund deserving students for overseas studies When Canadian wine icon Harry McWatters passed suddenly last summer, the sense of loss that so many felt went well beyond his extensive personal relationships. At McWatters service in Penticton, many of the 1,500 in attendance wondered just who might fill the void in the British Columbia wine industry which he helped invent, then cultivated for more than 40 years. Harrys mentorship is rightly legendary, says Jonathan Rouse, Associ...
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Okanagan College spotlights STEM education and career paths in Feb and March
February 13, 2020
What do soccer-playing robots, spaghetti bridges and soaring aviators have in common? Over the next month, Okanagan College will be opening its doors to elementary, middle and high school students to attend a series of events aimed at encouraging young people to step into Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). We want learners of all ages to hear the message that there has never been a better time to get into technology careers. There is a very real need for skilled workers in everything from animation to electronic, ...
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