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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
- Dec. 12 – 17 | Final exam week Friday to Wednesday, excluding Sunday (15-week courses)
- Dec. 17 | End of Fall 2025 semester
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📖 Your guide to SAIT study spaces
Exams 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.
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💯 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
🧠 Look after your mental well-being
“Keep calm and carry on” is a great mantra — assuming you’re calm in the first place! But what if you’re not? The best way to relieve exam-related stress is to become confident in your abilities and know that you have what it takes.
Learn how you can:
- listen to your needs
- lean into free resources
- talk it out with SAIT services.
🤩 Introducing the SAIT Student Honour Society
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.
Members will enjoy:
- recognition for outstanding academic achievement with an official membership pin
- the opportunity to drive meaningful change at SAIT through unique volunteering experiences
- a platform to apply and share your academic journey with your peers
- eligibility for financial awards of up to $1,500.
Who can join?
Students enrolled in a full-time, daytime credit program with a cumulative GPA of 3.8 or higher will receive an invitation from the Office of Student Engagement in January 2026.
Whether you’re just starting at SAIT or preparing to graduate, the SAIT Student Honour Society offers exciting ways to celebrate your success and to make an impact.
Learn more about the SAIT Student Honour Society
🎮 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 US 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.
❄️ Cozy up with the winter Library Digest
Check out your library’s December 2025 – January 2026 Library Digest for a little winter inspiration. Inside you’ll find a bundle of goodies just for you:
- Baking books packed with ideas on how to wow your friends and family with tasty treats this holiday
- Highlights from the fall semester and our library hours over the winter break
- A peek at our Self-Care Collection for ideas on how to recharge and reset after a busy semester
- Free movies — popular, festive, classic and more — via the library’s video streaming databases
Upcoming events you may be interested in
What else you should know
- The Lamb Learner Success Centre (MC209, Stan Grad Centre) is here to support you with your end-of-semester presentations and papers. Join a drop-in session on learning strategies for individuals on Tuesday, Dec. 9 or for groups on Wednesday, Dec. 10.
- Study abroad and semester exchange opportunities for 2026 are now open.
- Applications for our Winter 2026 Industry Mentorship Program are now open.
- Develop your leadership skills, engage in meaningful campus activities and make a positive impact by working within SAIT departments and offices through LEADS.
- If you're on your second year or above, become a mentor with the Peer Mentorship program. Share your experience, offer campus tips and connect new students to valuable resources.
- Participate in the English Conversation Partners program. It gives students who speak English as an additional language an opportunity to meet with a fluent English-speaking volunteer for one hour weekly — either online or in person.
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.
Student news
Cadmus Chair uses 3D to bring plumbing code to life
Instructor Fred Bretzke has created a 3D enhanced supplement to the 2020 National Plumbing Code appendix.
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.
How SAIT students plan to save the environment and reduce industry costs with the Innovative Student Project Fund
In Fall 2025, five groups of SAIT students received up to $1,500 from the Innovative Student Project Fund to find innovative solutions to real-world problems.
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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.