91精品黑料吃瓜 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? 91精品黑料吃瓜 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 ...
Read more...
91精品黑料吃瓜 business students top podium at Enactus Regionals
March 11, 2020
What do you do with your leftover fruit waste? For a group of 91精品黑料吃瓜 business students, repurposing apples that otherwise would have gone to waste into healthy snacks for kids was the logical solution 鈥 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 ...
Read more...
Redmond family inspires future dental assistants
March 11, 2020
After spending more than 40 years working as a Certified Dental Assistant (CDA), Jean Redmond knows first-hand it is a rewarding career. Now, she and her husband Bill are choosing to inspire the next generation of CDAs by pledging $40,000 toward the construction of a new Health Sciences Centre at 91精品黑料吃瓜鈥檚 Kelowna campus. The new Centre will feature a modern dental clinic to train CDAs, which are in-demand locally and across the province. The clinic will mirror a modern dental office, with a reception room, state-of-the-a...
Read more...
RV Technician training proves to be a dream choice for 91精品黑料吃瓜 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 91精品黑料吃瓜. Three years ago, Choudhury knew he wanted to get into trades. A businessman living in Calgary at the time, a switch in care...
Read more...
Vanity Fair: An (Im-)Morality Play takes centre stage on 91精品黑料吃瓜鈥檚 Kelowna campus
March 9, 2020
Celebrating 10 years of dynamic performances, 91精品黑料吃瓜鈥檚 Red Dot Players are set to delight audiences again as they transport them to 19th-century England with their latest production. The curtain will go up on Vanity Fair: An (Im-)Morality Play from March 12-15 at the College鈥檚 Kelowna campus, bringing together students, employees and community members. Theatre-goers also have the opportunity to dine beforehand at Infusions, the College鈥檚 Culinary student-led restaurant, with dinner theatre tickets available for the March ...
Read more...
91精品黑料吃瓜 alumni honoured for community impact
March 9, 2020
Two female graduates of 91精品黑料吃瓜 have earned the highest honours from the 91精品黑料吃瓜 Alumni Association (91精品黑料吃瓜AA) for their outstanding contributions within their communities and industries. The 91精品黑料吃瓜AA has been conferring the Distinguished and Young Alumni Awards since 2002 to honour the extraordinary contributions and recognize the positive impact that 91精品黑料吃瓜鈥檚 graduates have in improving the lives of those around them. Christina Fast is the recipient of this year鈥檚 Young Alumni Award. 鈥淚 was a careless 19-year-old with no...
Read more...
Stronger together: collaboration a theme of 37th Annual Spaghetti Bridge Building Contest at 91精品黑料吃瓜
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 91精品黑料吃瓜 also learned another important lesson in the value of collaboration. More than 250 students from elementary through post-secondary flocked from all over the Okanagan to the College鈥檚 Kelowna campus on Friday to see whose spaghetti bridge woul...
Read more...
Making mentors: 91精品黑料吃瓜 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 91精品黑料吃瓜鈥檚 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 ...
Read more...
450-year old map highlights role of women as cartography trailblazers
March 6, 2020
A map from the world鈥檚 first atlas, produced in 1570, offers a window not only into the geography of the time, but a chance to learn about a pioneering female colourist and the many others who have made indelible contributions to cartography ever since. The map, which depicts the surrounding areas of Milan, Spain, some 450 years ago, will be on display at 91精品黑料吃瓜鈥檚 Kelowna Campus Library for International Women鈥檚 day until March 8. It鈥檚 on loan from the private collection of Geography Professor Terence Day, who posits tha...
Read more...
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 91精品黑料吃瓜 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. 鈥淓veryone knows that soc...
Read more...