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📱 Get campus updates on SAITALERT
A test of SAITALERT, SAIT’s safety application, will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 14 through push notifications to subscriber devices and SAIT-owned computers connected to the SAIT network.
If you haven't already, download the SAITALERT app and enable notifications. If you have the app, ensure it remains active on your device. If the app has been offloaded or hibernated, you may miss important alerts.
💡 Did you know? You can view elevator and escalator outages by hitting the “Building updates/outages” button in SAITALERT.
👷♀️ Learn about support for women apprentices
Are you a woman-identifying pre-employment student or apprentice pursuing a career in the skilled trades? You may be eligible for funding to help cover:
- tuition and training costs
- childcare expenses
- tools and personal protective equipment (PPE).
Visit the Women in Skilled Trades Retention Program information booth to learn about financial support and other initiatives designed to help you succeed.
📅 Find us Oct. 19, Oct. 20 and Oct. 27 — click a date for location details.
🌈 Celebrate Pride Week #HereAtSAIT
Pride Week #HereAtSAIT starts today and runs until Friday, Oct. 16.
- See the Pride flag in front of Heritage Hall. 🏳️🌈
- Attend a documentary screening. 🎥
- Enjoy drag bingo. 💛
- Show off your trivia skills. 💡
- Discover Rainbow Reads in the glass display cases at the front of the Reg Erhardt Library. 📖
- Participate in an all-gender clothing swap*. 💬
See the full list of events on the Pride at SAIT page. Complete your Pride passport to be entered to win a SAIT Pride tee shirt.
*You can donate your clean, gently used clothes to the front desk of the Lamb Learner Success Centre from now until Thursday, Oct. 15 from 8 am to 3:30 pm. You do not need to donate to participate in the clothing swap.
💌 Build a sensory regulation kit
Ever wish you had the right tools and resources to handle a tough sensory moment? Drop in to Macdonald Hall from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm on Tuesday, Oct. 27 to explore sensory strategies and build your own custom regulation kit to take with you! Select from a variety of sensory tools and resources designed to help with concentration, stress management, emotional regulation, and self-care at school, work and beyond.
📚 Help build scholarly culture #HereAtSAIT
Join a small team of faculty, staff and students to explore practical teaching‑and‑learning questions and to build a stronger scholarly culture at SAIT. Be part of a research group that contributes to a work-in-progress submission for the Reimagining Learning Conference in May 2027.
No research experience needed — just curiosity and a willingness to collaborate. Express your interest in volunteering with the Scholarly Voices Project before Friday, Oct. 16.
🏫 SAIT Open House
Open House is on Oct. 23 and 24. Tell a friend to bring their big dreams, bold plans and questions, no matter how big or small, and find out about our programs.
💚 Build your network with speed mentoring
Are you interested in sustainability? Unsure of what opportunities are available in this career field? Attend SAIT’s Green Careers Speed Mentoring event on Wednesday, Oct. 28 from 11:45 am to 1:30 pm in Macdonald Hall. Meet sustainability experts from a variety of backgrounds and industries and learn how they got started and where their career has taken them. A light lunch will be provided. Spots are limited, so register now and claim your seat.
Save the date for other Campus Sustainability Month events this October:
- Coca-Cola Caught Green-Handed Campaign
October 5 – 31 – Get rewarded for positive recycling behaviours! - Office of Sustainability @ The Peer Support Centre
Tuesday, Oct. 20, noon – 2 pm - Bees and Biomes Tour
Wednesday, Oct. 21, noon to 1 pm | Register - Sustainability Symposium
Wednesday, Oct. 28, 11 am to 2 pm
🗝️ Caught in the Phish escape room
There's a phishing attack underway, and only your team can crack the code before it's too late!
Form a team with your pals and sign up for this fun, interactive 50-minute escape room experience on Thursday, Oct. 29. Your team could win SAIT gift cards and a trophy! 🏆
Join SAIT's insights research community
Have your voice heard, and you win prizes all year long!
You are invited to join the SAIT Insights Research Community. Students who join have a chance to win prizes by simply providing opinions on various topics related to SAIT through short monthly surveys. Community members may also be invited to participate in photo shoots, focus groups, and more.
Last year, members of the panel won over $3,500 in gift cards.
Join by Dec. 31, 2026, and you will be entered to win one of two $200 Amazon gift cards or one of six $100 Amazon gift cards.
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What else you should know
- Resources are available for survivors of all genders, identities and backgrounds to assist them in their recovery from incidents of sexual and gender-based violence. Our newest tool, REES, is a secure online reporting platform for incidents of sexual and gender-based violence.
- Have an idea to improve learner support services, enhance programs or benefit the SAIT community? Bring your innovative idea to life with funding from the '88 Legacy Fund. Applications are open now through Friday, Oct. 16.
- Open House is on Oct. 23 and 24. Tell a friend to bring their big dreams, bold plans and questions, no matter how big or small, and find out about our programs.
- The elevator in P6 is out of order and awaiting new parts. Reach out to Parking Services if you require accessible parking.
SAIT’s campus is home to legacy buildings and, like other post-secondary institutions in the city, performs water sampling to monitor its suitability for drinking. Recent testing results indicate a handful of labs and bottle refill stations in the Senator Burns, Heritage Hall and E.H. Crandell buildings have levels of some inorganic substances above recommended guidelines.
Corrective action has been taken, including signage in affected spaces with directions for users, where appropriate. Please follow any directions provided, and remember that bathroom sinks are intended for hand hygiene purposes only.
Learn about the impacted areas as well as protective and corrective actions being taken.
Student news
SAIT student builds and pitches software to help predict environmental risk
Sophia Perez finishes top three in national competition with ForeSite.
Beyond the spotlight: How students made FutureTech happen
What better way to learn how to plan and produce a professional event than actually doing it? Earlier this year, SAIT hosted FutureTech — a business pitch-style showcase. While one group of students took the stage with their ideas, another worked behind the scenes to make the event happen.
Photo gallery: WorldSkills 2026
Five SAIT competitors are representing Canada at the WorldSkills 2026 global skilled trades competition in Shanghai. The competition runs Sept. 22-27.
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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.