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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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🌍 Update your demographic data through mySAIT
Understanding who studies and works at SAIT ensures we are best equipped to support our community. Accurate demographic data from students and employees will help us identify opportunities to make SAIT more inclusive.
Updating your demographic data is optional, easy and makes a difference:
- Log in to your mySAIT account.
- Complete the demographic information section in your myStudent profile. You'll be able to update fields such as preferred name, pronouns, ethnicity, sexual orientation and more.
- Submit your responses — you’re finished!
🎯 Ways you can get involved with SAIT Giving Day
SAIT Giving Day runs from Oct. 28 to 29. This is a 24-hour fundraising event where students, staff and alumni come together to support real students, real places and real possibilities.
Here's how you can get involved.
- Visit the Gratitude Booth in Johnson-Cobbe Energy Centre on Tuesday, Oct. 28 from 10 am to 2 pm for activities and prize draws.
- Share your story. From receiving a student scholarship, using the Sensory Calming Room, receiving emergency funding or accessing the Saitsa Food and Wellness Bank, it's all because of donors. Tell us how donor support has impacted your life using the hashtag #SAITGIVES.
- Spread the word. Repost @SAITAlumni content and inspire others to give.
🎨 New mural tells the story of Natoysopoyiis
If you haven't seen SAIT's newest art installation on the main floor of the Senator Burns building, swing by and take in the magic.
The mural is a welcoming symbol, honouring and reflecting the name of SAIT's Indigenous student support centre — Natoysopoyiis, which means "holy wind lodge" in the language of the Blackfoot people.
Main artist Kristy North Peigan, a member of the Piikani First Nation, worked with Knowledge Keeper Darren Weaslechild and art collaborator Elder Grant Little Mustache to mesh traditional knowledge with contemporary technologies, creating the immersive mural.
🧑💻 Using AI and recognizing threats
Microsoft Copilot Chat is now available to all SAIT students. Because Copilot is part of SAIT’s secure Microsoft environment, your data stays private and protected. Unlike public AI tools, your chats and files remain within SAIT’s Microsoft 365 tenant and are not used to train external AI models.
Check with your instructor before using AI for coursework, and familiarize yourself with AD.2.15.3 Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies at SAIT and AD.2.15.3 Schedule A - Use of Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning.
Safeguard your data
Malicious AI refers to systems intentionally designed or repurposed for cybercrime. There are a number of tools that have been released that make it easy for bad intentioned individuals to use:
- A generative AI tool capable of writing phishing emails, creating malware code, and even generating exploit scripts — with no ethical safeguards or content filters
- Automated AI-driven programs that can flood inboxes with spam, spread misinformation or impersonate real users
Use caution and protect yourself.
- Even professional-looking messages can be fakes.
- Always confirm unusual instructions through a trusted channel.
- Hover over links to check the true destination.
- Only open attached files from verified sources.
- Report anything suspicious to ITS Service Desk at its.support@sait.ca
Cybersecurity pop-up booths
Look for SAIT’s Cybersecurity team across campus to get more tips and snag some swag.
- Tuesday, Oct. 21 – Johnson-Cobbe Energy Centre
- Tuesday, Oct. 28 – Stan Grad Centre
🍂 Learn, rest, repeat: October at the library
Learning and well-being go best together, so this month’s Library Digest is here to help you find balance during a busy time.
- Explore a curated list of mental health and wellness reads.
- Get the scoop on study spaces in the library so you can plan your group work and individual study.
- Find quick links to research tutorials, citation guides and librarian support to keep assignments stress free.
Visiting the library in person? Check out the "Quick Picks for Success" bookcase around the corner from the information desk.
🌎 Apply to study abroad in 2025/26
Applications open on Wednesday, Oct. 15 for study abroad opportunities in the 2025/26 academic year — including semester exchanges and short-term programs.
This year, SAIT students are exploring the world in Costa Rica, Cuba, Peru, South Africa, Singapore, Australia, the United States, Switzerland, Belgium, Ireland and India — and you could be next!
Travel, learn and build global connections through unforgettable international experiences. Don’t miss your chance — spaces fill fast.
More upcoming events you may be interested in
What else you should know
- Join Body Doubling Drop-In to focus on projects and make progress alongside others on Tuesday, Oct. 21 (1 – 2 pm) or Monday, Oct. 27 (10:30 – 11:30 am) in MC209, Stan Grad Centre.
- Apply now to study abroad in the 2025/26 academic year.
- We're opening the doors of the Digital Youth Studio (Johnson-Cobbe Energy Centre, KA306) on Wednesday Oct. 22 and 29 from 11 am to 2 pm. Take part in self-paced, hands-on activities like 3D printing and modelling and extended reality.
- Learn about student loans and grants and receive support with your application in one of our hands-on workshops, held on Tuesday, Oct. 28 from 5 – 6:30 pm and on Thursday, Oct. 30 from 2 – 4 pm.
- On Thursday, Oct. 23, test your skills in SAIT's own escape room. Registration is required, so assemble a team of two to four of your best escape artists and sign up today.
- Over the next few months, you’ll notice some changes in mySAIT. If you need help or are curious about a change you see, check the Knowledge Base.
- SAIT Insights is our research community, where feedback is collected from students like you to improve the SAIT experience. Sign up before the end of this year and be entered to win one of three $100 Amazon gift cards.
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.
If you experience measles symptoms, please help limit the spread — stay home and call 811 to report symptoms. Vaccines are available for free at SAIT’s Health Clinic.
Please call 403.284.8666 to book a vaccination appointment with the clinic — no walk-ins are accepted.
Important notice
Starting Monday, June 23, changes are coming to your digital identity and access to Microsoft applications.
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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.