Award details
The award provides the recipient with the following:
- $2,500 for items such as tools, equipment and personal computers
- up to $17,500 to fund professional development activities,
- promote the trades, mentor other instructors and complete project work that will enhance program quality
- an off-load of up to four months to work on their project.
2026/27 Cadmus Award applications
Applications for the 2026/27 Cadmus Trades Teaching Chair Award open in December.
2025/26 Cadmus Trades Teaching Chair recipient
🏁Erik Sartison, School of Transportation
A heavy equipment technology instructor, Erik’s Cadmus proposal focuses on engaging Alberta secondary students in an electric go-kart competition hosted by Edison Motors in British Columbia.
This project will engage students in both the design and hands-on construction process, exposing them to various opportunities available in trades as well as other programming at SAIT.
With an additional focus on new and future technologies, he hopes to inspire the next generation of top students and technicians.
Recent winners
🔧2024/25: Fred Bretzke, School of Construction
Fred’s project supplements the 2020 National Plumbing Code Appendix with interactive, three-dimensional models to interpret four major sections of the existing code. These 3D models, in conjunction with video tutorials, have the potential to revolutionize the current approach to the explanatory materials used by the National Research Council for multiple code books including building and electrical codes.
⚙️2023/24: Tim Wong, School of Manufacturing and Automation
Tim Wong, a machinist and instructor with SAIT’s School of Manufacturing and Automation, created a Machinist Outreach Program to increase awareness of the machining trade. Wong developed an Open Educational Resource, Machine Shop Fundamentals, allowing high school teachers to learn online with a hands-on training component offered at SAIT. With support from industry, he also provided tools and supplies used in SAIT’s Machinist program for participating schools. The program connected with more than 500 students from 20 high schools.
Cadmus Chair recipient stories
Taking the machining trade to high school shop classes across southern Alberta
Cadmus Trades Teaching Chair recipient focuses on the importance of creating early awareness for the skilled trades.
Cadmus Chair looks to create world peace through food
2019/20 Cadmus Chair aims to create a specialized course in culinary diplomacy and food culture within SAIT’s School of Hospitality and Tourism.
Complete list of Cadmus Trades Teaching Chairs
- 2025/26: Erik Sartison, School of Transportation
- 2024/25: Fred Bretzke, School of Construction
- 2023/24: Tim Wong, School of Manufacturing and Automation
- 2022/23: Simon Dunn, School of Hospitality and Tourism
- 2020/21: David Kaytor, MacPhail School of Energy
- 2019/20: Rosalyn Ediger, School of Hospitality and Tourism
- 2018/19: Andrew Samek, School of Manufacturing and Automation
- 2018/19: Jordan Persson, School of Manufacturing and Automation
- 2017/18: Robin Greig, School of Manufacturing and Automation
- 2016/17: Darcy Wallace, School of Transportation
- 2015/16: Mick McGowan, School of Construction
- 2014/15: Adam Medrek, School of Manufacturing and Automation
- 2013/14: Todd Green, School of Transportation
- 2012/13: Dan Weinert, School of Construction
- 2011/12: Derrick MacAskill, School of Manufacturing and Automation
- 2010/11: Andrew Hewson, School of Hospitality and Tourism
- 2009/10: Randy Croft, School of Construction
- 2008/09: Darwin Schatz, School of Transportation
- 2007/08: Georg Windisch, School of Hospitality and Tourism
- 2006/07: Tom Bachelor, School of Transportation
- 2005/06: Jack Firth, School of Manufacturing and Automation
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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.