Chris Izquierdo is the CEO of DevFacto Technologies, a company: “dedicated to creating software humans love to use.” Specifically, they build enterprise software for companies and hire many of NAIT’s top software graduates. With many recent accolades in the software...
Electrical Engineering Technology students are raising their concerns about what they call inconvenient and potentially dangerous scheduling from NAIT. The students heard rumours last semester that a change from their 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. schedule to a 7 a.m. to 5 p.m....
NAIT is paving the way for Alberta’s competitiveness on several hot-button issues. On Nov. 2, NAIT held its second annual Research Symposium at the Shaw Theatre, focusing on a wide variety of issues, including future energy, digital economy and natural resources. The...
The Edmonton Police Service have issued a warning to NAIT students about a virtual kidnapping scheme impacting the Chinese community in British Columbia. In July of this year, RCMP in lower mainland British Columbia became aware of a fraud trend involving Chinese...
A $1 million donation has been made by Ashif Mawji towards establishing the new Mawji Centre, which will be home to the New Venture and Student Entrepreneurship resources. The centre will be dedicated to helping NAIT students in all fields of academia learn, explore...
Three of NAIT’s own have returned from representing Canada in the 2017 WorldSkills competition in Abu Dhabi with modest results. Canada sent 31 competitors who participated in over 25 different skilled trades and service industry tasks in Asia from Oct. 15-18, placing...
The NAIT Students’ Association Senate still has two vacant seats. On Monday Oct. 30, a special appointment meeting was held and two of the four open positions were filled. Scott Bowen was appointed to represent Skilled Trades and Apprenticeships and the last position...
NAIT has a full month of Movember activities planned to raise awareness and funds for three important men’s health issues: testicular cancer, prostate cancer, plus mental health and suicide prevention. There will be four weeks of Movember events, with each week...
On Friday, Oct. 20, Ernest’s played host to a feast of unique proportions. The “Leftovers for Dinner” event, spearheaded by Global Shapers Edmonton in partnership with Ernest’s, was a fundraising and awareness dinner for the charity Leftovers YEG. The evening’s setup...
Thanksgiving dinner is the time of year families gather for a meal and all the joys that come with it. Now imagine you only met your family a month ago, and it consisted of 180 people from different countries, whom you’d never met. Would you feel a little...
