On April 10, 2024, the Mawji Center and JR Shaw School of Business will host a Business Innovation Showcase to allow students and recent alums to showcase their business concepts or existing ventures. The event aims to foster collaboration between students across NAIT...
Students want accountability after NAIT Pride: ‘They don’t care about actually protecting us when the cameras are gone’
After NAIT’s tenth Pride Week and second year raising the Pride Progress Flag on campus, some NAIT students were left feeling like the institution’s commitment to queer students fell short. Members of two NAITSA Campus Clubs are concerned that NAIT and its Office of...
NAIT Career Services to host hiring fair; immediate opportunities, expanded network
NAIT Career Services is hosting a hiring fair on March 19 to support students about to graduate and recent alumni in their career endeavours. The upcoming hiring fair will focus on companies that can offer immediate employment opportunities to NAIT alumni and graduate...
NAIT poets have chance to compete in annual contest for first time
On the contest’s 10-year anniversary, NAIT students are now welcome to submit the Centre for Literatures in Canada’s (CLC) annual poetry contest. Each year, CLC searches for the best poems in English or French from several local post-secondary schools and...
Edmonton HR students to compete at UBIZ tournament
The University of Alberta (U of A) is hosting a brand new type of tournament geared towards Human Resources students. On March 9, students from Edmonton, including NAIT and MacEwan University, will be travelling to the U of A for the UBIZ tournament–a competition to...
Computer Technology club to host first IT career fair since COVID
On February 15, students can gather in the HP building for IT Connections–a career fair specifically for NAIT IT students.
Mawji Centre hosts 2024 Innovation Challenge; prizes awarded
The NAIT Innovation Challenge, where creativity is paramount, is an annual event hosted by the Mawji Centre; this year’s sponsor was Raptor Mining. During the competition, students are given a specific problem to solve, and this year's theme was the pressures of...
A ‘labour of love’: Team NAIT wins silver at IKA Culinary Olympics
Days before the IKA Culinary Olympics in Germany, NAIT’s first all-woman Community Catering team of Culinary Arts professionals are ready for anything. The team of seven Culinary Arts students and recent graduates would go on to bring home a silver medal in their...
NAIT Academic Staff Association concerned about new type of Instructional Assistant
In 2023, NAIT began holding consultations to discuss a new type of Instructional Assistant that could deliver technical lessons—something that the NAIT Academic Staff Association (NASA) is “hugely concerned” about.
Entrepreneurship is “Mission Possible” at NAIT with $5 business challenge
A unique assignment in an Entrepreneurship 3260 (ENT3260) class challenged students to start and run a business with only five dollars, with all the proceeds going to charity. Drew Wolsey, Chair of the Business Administration- Entrepreneurship and Innovation program,...