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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.
Upcoming dates and deadlines
- Feb. 16 | Family Day – SAIT Closed
- Feb. 16 - 20 | Mid-semester break for applicable programs
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📖 Your guide to SAIT study spaces
Midterms are around the corner ... where do you go to meet your study needs? Check out some of our favourite study spaces on SAIT’s main campus — plus, some other essential stops: the Student Zen Den and the Testing Centre.
Check out our favourite study spots
💯 Our complete guide to tests and exams
Try these tips from Learning Skills Services and Student Development and Counselling to feel ready to ace each test and ease exam anxiety.
We've got pro tips for:
- online exams
- open book exams
- multiple choice questions
- true/false questions
- essay tests.
Learn our exam tips and tricks
Check Lamb Learner Success Centre events
🧠 Develop strategies to work with your brain and thinking style
On Thursday, Feb. 26 from 1:30 – 2:30 pm, join us for an interactive workshop designed to demystify executive functioning and empower you with practical tools to enhance focus, organization and self-regulation. Learn how your brain processes tasks, discover strategies tailored to your unique thinking style, and build habits that support productivity and well-being.
Register for an interactive workshop
💸 Share your opinion for a chance to win up to $1,500 worth of gift cards
Calling all second, third or fourth-semester students! Complete a seven-minute survey to share your SAIT experience on campus and in the classroom, and you'll be entered to win one of five $300 Amazon gift cards.
You'll receive a unique link in your SAIT inbox on Wednesday, Feb. 11 to complete the survey. Respond before Friday, Feb. 27 for your chance to win.
😃 Create a dopamine menu with SAIT's neurodiversity peer support groups
SAIT's neurodiversity peer support groups meet once a month. February's meet up will be "Creating a Dopamine Menu."
- The Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Peer Support Group will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 24 from 3 – 4 pm. Register now.
- The Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Peer Support Group will meet on Thursday, Feb. 26 from 3 – 4 pm. Register now.
🏆 Nominate your favourite instructors for a Teaching Excellence Award
The Teaching Excellence Award celebrates the impact your favourite instructor had on your learning and experience.
If your instructor had an impact on your learning, sign into your Brightspace account and vote to recognize them.
Voting closes on Monday, March 30 at 11:59 pm.
📅 Register for Mentorship Momentum: Women Advancing the Trades
Join us on Monday, March 16 from 4:30 – 8 pm in CA121 (East Aldred Event Space) for Mentorship Momentum.
Mentorship Momentum brings together apprentices, industry leaders, mentors, alumni, faculty and support staff to advance women in skilled trades through connection, conversation and shared experience.
You can expect:
- A keynote speech, reading, book signing and Q&A with Hilary Peach, author of Thick Skin and a respected voice in the skilled trades community
- LAST CHANCE Women apprentices can enter to win lunch with Hilary on Monday, March 16. Submit a two-minute video before Friday, Feb. 20 about how mentorship has impacted your journey for a chance to win.
- Mentor-mentee speed networking to spark lasting connections
- Light refreshments
📅 Attend the Black History Month Student Fest
Join the Office of Community and Belonging, Black Empowerment and Excellence at SAIT (BEES) and the Afro-Caribbean Student Club (ACSC) as we celebrate Black History Month this February.
💰 Financial Literacy Workshop: How to Protect Yourself from Becoming a Fraud Victim
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 11:30 am – 1 pm
AA128, Heritage Hall
Join School of Business Instructor, Festus Adebisi to learn practical strategies to recognize scams, spot red flags and protect your personal information.
Space is limited — Register now
🍿 Documentary Review: CBC Gem Untold Stories, Episode 6 — “More Than Just a Game”
Thursday, Feb. 26, 11:30 am – 1 pm
AA128, Heritage Hall
Watch the documentary and join a guided discussion on the role of sports in Black history, identity and resistance.
Space is limited — Register now
Upcoming events you may be interested in
What else you should know
- LAST CHANCE: Nominate a peer graduating in Spring 2026 for the President's Medal, President's Student Leadership Award or valedictorian before Friday, Feb. 13.
- Enter the World Technology University Network competition to win up to $550 by forming an interdisciplinary team to address one or more of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. Teams will need to present their innovative solution via video by Thursday, April 9.
- The sidewalk in front of the Eugene Coste building is closed for several months to accommodate boiler installation. Detour signage is in place.
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.
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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.