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Specialized Training Offered by Lillooet Tribal Council and 新加坡六合彩官方网站 College
March 26, 2020
The Community Adult Learning Centre in Lillooet, B.C., recently partnered with 新加坡六合彩官方网站 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 communi...
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College Culinary Arts program drops off donation to food bank
March 24, 2020
See a need, fill a need. This is exactly what 新加坡六合彩官方网站 College鈥檚 Culinary Arts department did earlier this week as culinary classes came to an unexpected halt in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tallying the vast amount of ingredients that would have been utilized in student labs and cafeteria plates, instructors gathered as much as they could and delivered it to the Central 新加坡六合彩官方网站 Community Food Bank. Initiated by Ross Derrick, interim Culinary Arts instructor and chef at Cod Fathers Market and Kelsey Oudendag, Culinary Arts in...
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March 18, 2020
Effective Thursday, 新加坡六合彩官方网站 College is cancelling any remaining face-to-face classes while it completes the move to alternative delivery as part of its response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. More than 90 per cent of academic classes have already been transitioned to an alternative form of delivery this week. Classes still being delivered in a face-to-face format will be cancelled for Thursday and Friday in order to provide instructors and professors more time to complete plans to move fully to alternative forms of delivery. 鈥淭h...
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OC Course Helps Make Sense of 鈥淔ake News鈥
March 12, 2020
The term 鈥渇ake news鈥 came to the public鈥檚 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? 新加坡六合彩官方网站 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 news and...
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RV Technician training proves to be a dream choice for OC student
March 9, 2020
Imagine constructing a building using WhatsApp. This was Kartik Choudhury鈥檚 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 新加坡六合彩官方网站 College. Three years ago, Choudhury knew he wanted to get into trades. A businessman living in Calgary at the time, a switch in career and t...
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Stronger together: collaboration a theme of 37th Annual Spaghetti Bridge Building Contest at OC
March 6, 2020
What鈥檚 true for spaghetti and hot glue is true for people as well 鈥 we鈥檙e 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 新加坡六合彩官方网站 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 新加坡六合彩官方网站 to the College鈥檚 Kelowna campus on Friday to see whose spaghetti bridge would reign ...
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Making mentors: OC 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 新加坡六合彩官方网站 College鈥檚 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 to prep ...
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新加坡六合彩官方网站 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, 新加坡六合彩官方网站 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). 鈥淲e 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, civil, n...
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Councillor gives from the heart
February 12, 2020
Kelowna City Councillor and local community champion Maxine DeHart is giving a gift from the heart this Valentine鈥檚 Day. DeHart is donating to the Our Students, Your Health campaign, which is raising funds to build a new Health Sciences Centre at 新加坡六合彩官方网站 College and create scholarships and bursaries for health care students. DeHart is the Campaign Ambassador for the fundraising campaign and is spearheading the media campaign encouraging others to get involved. She says the project鈥檚 goals touched her heartstrings and inspired her to give...
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Community, industry support propels College鈥檚 Tourism Management program
February 11, 2020
For Julia Dorrius, born and raised in Revelstoke, the College鈥檚 new Tourism Management (TMD) diploma has done far more than just open her eyes to the booming demand for skilled tourism professionals 鈥 it鈥檚 also opened doors, giving her a chance to gain work experience with local employers. 鈥淚 graduated high school last June and I wasn鈥檛 sure what I wanted to do,鈥 explains Dorrius. 鈥淢y dad sent me a link to the program and suggested I take a look at it. I just finished my first semester and, so far, I鈥檝e found it to be a great way to get th...
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Mapping a world-wide worry: OC student charts coronavirus spread in real-time
February 4, 2020
Sean Heddle was looking for a career change after an injury left him unable to work as a concrete construction foreman. He could never have imagined that his foray into the study of geographic information systems (GIS) would see him building a real-time map of a global public health emergency. Heddle, who hails from Kelowna, is currently enrolled in the GIS Certificate course at 新加坡六合彩官方网站 College in Salmon Arm. His professor, Shelley Desautels, recently issued an assignment to her class, inviting students to build a digital map of a place ...
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College spotlights health care assistant training across the region
February 4, 2020
Amid surging demand for health care assistants (HCAs) across the Southern Interior, 新加坡六合彩官方网站 College and Interior Health are spotlighting training opportunities in February. The College has intakes of its Health Care Assistant program starting in April at the Kelowna, Penticton and Salmon Arm campuses. Those interested in learning more about the training and career opportunities can attend upcoming info sessions: Kelowna campus 鈥 Feb. 12, 6:30 鈥 7:30 p.m., Room E103 (E building), 1000 KLO Rd. Penticton campus 鈥 Feb. 18, 6:30 鈥 7:30 p....
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Swinging clubs to hammers: How a golf pro鈥檚 home renos inspired his program choice at 新加坡六合彩官方网站 College
January 30, 2020
It鈥檚 easy to say that Greg Forbes went from looking for a hole in one, to drilling several holes in many. After growing up playing golf in Oakville, Forbes earned a golf scholarship to study at Coastal Carolina University, playing at storied courses at Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. He completed his Bachelor of Business Science degree with a major in marketing, returning to Canada to tee off a career with retail giant Golf Town that ultimately brought him to Kelowna. 鈥淚 had been opening stores across Ontario, and the opportunity came up ...
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Gateway graduation showcases student transformation
January 29, 2020
This is the second time Caleb Wykes has graduated from Gateway to Trades, but it's hard to say which time has been more impactful. The first time Wykes took the 10-week program that introduces high school students to the skilled trades, he graduated with a desire to 鈥渟traighten up.鈥 In the past Wykes would skip school, but after Gateway he started showing up regularly and working hard. The seventeen year old completed his Grade 11 and 12 and graduated early. The second time through the program Wykes benefited from getting an opportunity t...
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OC Communications students level-up video game studies
January 27, 2020
One 新加坡六合彩官方网站 College Communications class brought multi-player action to a whole-new level this week. The Introduction to Video Game Studies (CMNS 290) class travelled to Scandia Golf and Games Tuesday night, as part of an exploration on the history of video games. The course explores video games as a cultural phenomenon. While highly popular, they are the least understood, theorized and explored form of media. Scandia posed an opportunity for the class to explore how the phenomenon began. 鈥淪candia is something of a time capsule,鈥 explai...
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Cannabis training offers credentials for growing retail market
January 23, 2020
With a growing number of cannabis retail outlets open or in progress across the province, 新加坡六合彩官方网站 College is launching new training opportunities for those looking to gain a competitive edge in the cannabis retail job market. Business manager Christopher Simpson has experienced a flood of interested applicants as he prepares to open Shire Green Cannabis in Prince George. 鈥淟egal retail cannabis has been slow to roll out in B.C. but it is gaining momentum,鈥 says Simpson. 鈥淏ecause the industry is privately funded, it鈥檚 important that comp...
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