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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
- Jan. 16 | Tuition payment deadline
- Jan. 16 | Final day to apply for transfer credit or prior learning recognition
- Jan. 16 | Add/drop period ends for most full-time programs
- Jan. 16 | Final day to opt out or add family to Saitsa health and dental plans
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❄️ Welcome to Winter 2026
Welcome or welcome back! As long as you're a student #HereAtSAIT, you'll receive this email weekly — featuring need-to-know updates, volunteer opportunities, events and other information to enhance your student experience.
Remember to bookmark this webpage, where you can refer back to the week's newsletter with a click.
📚 Enter to win $500 #HereAtSAIT
To kick off the Winter 2026 term, we’re giving away $500 in eCard funds. Enter for a chance to win one of five $100 prizes uploaded to your eCard!
How to enter:
- Be a current SAIT student for Winter 2026
- Follow @HereAtSAIT on Instagram
- Tag a friend in this post (each tag is a new entry)
Contest runs until Tuesday, Jan. 20 at 11:59 pm. Check out the rules and regulations.
💡 Join the 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 Winter 2026 are open until Jan. 11.
Mentoring: If you're on your second year or above, this is a chance to give back by supporting a fellow student’s journey. Share your experience, offer campus tips and connect them to valuable resources. Pay it forward — be the mentor you wish you had. (Tip: employers love mentors!)
New to SAIT? Sign up as a mentee to meet a fellow SAIT student who can help you navigate campus life, answer questions, share tips and connect you with the tools and resources you need to succeed.
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💬 Join the English Conversation Partners Program
SAIT's English Conversation Partners Program gives English as an additional language (EAL) speakers an opportunity to meet with a fluent English-speaking volunteer for one hour weekly — either online or in person. It's a great way to make new friends, share cultural experiences and improve language abilities.
The deadline to sign up for the winter program is Jan. 11.
Are you an English as an additional language student? 🗣️ Spots fill up fast, so register early to reserve your place!
Are you a fluent English speaker looking to meet new people and help them practise their conversational English?
Register as an English-fluent volunteer
🌎 See the world through SAIT Study Abroad
Study abroad and semester exchange opportunities for 2026 are open. We have some groups heading to destinations like Australia, Cuba and Portugal.
Semester exchanges to Belgium and Switzerland in Fall 2026 are now open.
Choose your adventure and apply today!
See all study abroad opportunities
🧘 Get fit for free with Trojans Athletics and Recreation
Trojans Athletics and Recreation offers exciting, free recreation opportunities and classes for students.
- Create a team to compete in basketball or volleyball, with new weekend leagues available.
- Join our Pickleball League to accumulate points, boost your ranking and try to become the top player on the court.
- Take Flow Yoga and Zumba classes, led by accredited instructors.
Spaces are limited and registration is open now!
See all Athletics and Rec opportunities
🎮 Play eSports as a Trojan Student Athlete
Calling all gamers! If Overwatch, League of Legends, Valorant, Super Smash, Chess or Rocket league are something you’re passionate about, we’re recruiting for the Trojans eSports team for Winter 2026.
As a Trojan Student Athlete, you will:
- compete against hundreds of schools across the U.S. and Canada
- build comradery with other players on your team
- receive a Trojans Welcome Kit
- play the games you love for your school.
Apply before Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026.
Questions? Trojans.Esports@sait.ca.
Upcoming events you may be interested in
What else you should know
- We are excited to introduce the SAIT Student Honour Society (SSHS) a SAIT-led honour society that celebrates academic excellence and creates opportunities for leadership, connection and impact on campus. It’s a community of high-achieving students who want to make a difference.
- Calling all gamers! If Overwatch, League of Legends, Valorant, Super Smash, Chess or Rocket league are something you’re passionate about, we’re recruiting for the Trojans eSports team for Winter 2026. Apply to become an eSports athlete before Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026.
- Study abroad and semester exchange opportunities for 2026 are now open.
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 WorldSkills competitors go global to train for China
Skills competitions — aka, the Olympics of the trades — happen in 89 countries. Both Kokot and McGarry are slated to compete in the WorldSkills competition in September 2026 in Shanghai. They were invited to tackle national competitions in France and Germany as part of the global partnerships between the nations involved in Skills.
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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.