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🤝 Join SAIT's Peer Mentorship Program
The Peer Mentorship Program is a great way to connect with peers, build essential skills and grow your confidence. Applications for mentees and mentors for Fall 2024 are open until Friday, Sept. 6. DYK? Peer mentorship is a co-curricular record activity.
🤔 Six degrees of SAIT-paration
The six degrees of separation (and its equally relevant counterpart, the six degrees of Kevin Bacon) is the idea that we are all within six or fewer social connections from everyone else in the world. SAIT, as it turns out, is no exception.
See 10 famous figures who connect back to SAIT
🚧 Reminder: Detour ahead! Construction around campus
If you drive, walk or bike to campus through Hillhurst or Kensington, make sure your route won't be disrupted this summer, as some roads will be closed for construction.
Ongoing - anticipated completion on Saturday, July 27
- 11 St NW between Gladstone Rd NW and Kensington Gate NW closed.
- Intersection of 3 Ave NW and 11 St NW closed.
- Gladstone Road NW between 11 St NW and 12 St NW closed.
🎮 Reminder: Esports tournaments: Get your head in the game!
Test your gaming skills against other students in the Summer Esports Tournaments #HereAtSAIT!
- FIFA (1v1) - Tuesday, July 30
- League of Legends (2v2) - Wednesday, July 31
- Valorant (5v5) - Thursday, Aug. 1
Tournament games will be held on campus at the Esports Studio on the first floor of the Senator Burns building at 5:30 pm. Registration is open now until Friday, July 26.
🗨️ Reminder: Volunteer for Fall: English Conversation Partners Program
Are you a fluent English speaker? Register as an English-speaking volunteer in our English Conversation Partners program, starting in September and running through Fall 2024. Volunteers can be students in any program, alumni or SAIT employees.
For an hour a week, English-speaking volunteers and English-learning students will connect (online or in-person) to practice language, share cultural knowledge and learn new skills.
Volunteer for the Fall semester
🗨️ Are you an English as an additional language (EAL) student looking to improve your spoken English? Stay tuned - your registration opens Monday, Aug. 5!
🌈 Reminder: Join SAIT in the Calgary Pride Parade
Pride at SAIT is thrilled to participate in the 2024 Calgary Pride Parade!
The annual parade will take place on Sunday, Sept. 1, starting at 11 am. We have 150 spots for students, staff and SAIT community members to join us in the parade!
All attendees will need to register on Eventbrite. Please limit your party to groups of no more than six people.
The parade will start in downtown Calgary, but we'll share the exact location once it is announced by Calgary Pride. Hope to see you there!
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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.