SAIT Update
Keep up to date with important announcements and news and get connected to the support and resources you need to make the most of your time here at SAIT.
Upcoming dates and deadlines
- Canada Day (Institute closed) | Monday, July 1
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Be sure to check your email at the beginning of each week for important reminders, events and need-to-know information.
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🚩 Capture the flag meets cybersecurity
Last week, the SADT Information Systems Security program event hosted SAIT students, faculty and alumni for a capture the flag event to solve digital puzzles and search the campus for clues and checkpoints. Teams competed against each other to find vulnerabilities, solve problems, and defend their own systems while attacking others.
The simulation of real-world cyber security scenarios provided participants with the opportunity to learn and improve defensive and offensive strategies in a safe, controlled environment.
🛠 Q&A with women kickstarting their journey to the trades at SAIT
Read the stories of three women starting career journeys in the trades with a 17-week training program with Women Building Futures.
🌎 Building a global community through food
Culinary diplomacy, at its core, is about connection. It is about learning and sharing experiences as a way to foster relationships and understanding between countries, cultures and individuals.
Recently, SAIT hosted two notable chefs from Monterrey, Mexico to Calgary on our second culinary diplomacy exchange — learn more about this amazing opportunity.
💻 Reminder: 4 Seasons of Reconciliation Indigenous education course
On June 21 - National Indigenous Peoples Day - we launched the 4 Seasons of Reconciliation course to all SAIT students.
Developed in partnership with First Nations University of Canada, this is a completely free course available to you, no matter what program you're in. By completing this three-hour, fully online training, you'll gain foundational knowledge on Truth and Reconciliation and earn a certificate.
The course promotes a renewed relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canadians through anti-racism education. This learning is in direct response to the 94 Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
To access the course:
- Log into mySAIT
- Click myStudent from the menu
- In the Academic Records & Schedules section, select "Search and Register for Courses"
- In the new window, click "Register for Courses."
- Select "Non-Credit 2023-2024" as the term
- Search for "INDG001 Indigenous Topics," and add the course
- Enter the date to gain access to the course, then click "Submit"
- Register
- Get started!
📴 Decommissioning the Ellucian GO app
Ellucian is decommissioning the Ellucian GO app as of Sunday, June 30. It will no longer be available through the App Store or Google Play.
While you can no longer use the app, you can access mySAIT.ca on your mobile device to find class schedules, grades, campus information and announcements. There will be no interruption to mySAIT.ca.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the ITS Service Desk.
We’re glad you’re #HereAtSAIT contest!
📚 To kick off the Summer 2024 term, we’re giving away a SAIT swag bag!
How to enter:
- be a current SAIT student for Summer or Fall 2024
- follow @HereAtSAIT on Instagram
- tag a friend in this post (each tag is a new entry)
Contest ends Sunday, July 14 at midnight. Click here for the contest rules and regulations.
More upcoming events you may be interested in
What else you should know
ICYMI
- Did you know SAIT's Lamb Learner Success Centre has free writing support available? Book a meeting with a writing specialist or submit your writing to writing.help@sait.ca for feedback via email.
- Elevator modernization in Senator Burns is underway! Elevator improvements and testing will take place from Friday, July 12 through to early August. Learn about the Elevator and Escalator Modernization project and check the status of outages on campus.
In and around campus
Further testing following the City of Calgary’s intensive water testing protocols has revealed elevated inorganic substances in 10 point-of-use locations out of the 106 locations tested.
Eight of these points of use locations are in the Senator Burns building, one in the Thomas Riley building and one at the Mayland Heights campus. Testing was completed on all drinking fountains, water bottle filling stations, office kitchen sinks and commercial kitchens in legacy buildings on campus.
Learn about the impacted areas as well as protective and corrective actions being taken.
Student news
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.