NAITSA’s 2019-20 Executive Council: Karen Velasco (President), Emi Oke (VP Academic), Alexis Flinkert (VP Student Services) and - (not pictured) AJ Jaruga (VP External). Photo Courtesy of NAITSA By: Joe Lipovski NAITSA is in the process of building new offices. The...
Photo Courtesy of NAIT By: Joe Lipovski NAIT’s Protective Services runs 24 hours, however there are certain times of the day that they need to operate with minimal staff. As a result, Protective Services needs to prioritize what calls they respond to first. Especially...
Photo by Amaya Daley By: Alexa Prins On March 8 and 9, MacEwan University was taken over by marketing and communication professionals for the 8th annual iMEDIA Social Media Conference. Each year, the conference offers an opportunity for industry professionals and...
Photo Courtesy of Facebook By: Althea Alabat Kihmary Somcio is a third year business administration student majoring in Marketing. Somcio is the current president of the International Student Club (ISC) as of January 2019. She was introduced to the club early last...
By: Althea Alabat Starting April 28th, the Metro Line will end at the Kingsway/Royal Alex station and will not continue to NAIT for four months. NAITSA’s Advocacy Director, Jason Roth, has asked the City of Edmonton to provide more frequent buses from the Kingsway...
By: Larissa Nothof The Mosaic Festival, formerly known as Global Village, is an event partnership between NAIT International, NAITSA, and the Nîsôhkamâtotân Centre at NAIT with the goal to promote inclusion and diversity. “It is important to endorse, diversity and...
By: Eryn Pinksen Two long distance friends, Zoë Andison and Eli O’Donnell, a NAIT student, used their creativity and their support for each other to find a way to help others. Together they created the Midnight Crisis Club with the slogan “Progress is Possible”. With...
By: Eryn Pinksen NAIT culinary student Mercedes McKinlay owns and operates a lollipop business with her mom and they are having overwhelming success after having their gold leaf, rose and champagne lollies in the 61st Grammy presenter gift bags. The business did not...
By: Eryn Pinksen The Student Services Centre is training artificial technology (AI) to give students another option to get their questions answered. Given the name Lumi, short for IllumiNAIT, the AI chatbot finished collecting student questions at the beginning of...
By: Emma Morrison NAIT students struggling to afford food in their student budget have access to a discreet and easily accessible food centre. The NAITSA Food Centre is essentially a food bank for the students of NAIT. Students receive three to five days worth of food...
