Academic News

A very successful spring and summer project semester (May through August) just wrapped up with our last two Brazilian students heading back home this week. Now a new group of eight BIT students is getting up to speed in the Massey Building (standing, left to right: Skye Valde, Jie Chen, Samara Hoffman, Cole Denslow, Parminder Singh, Aaron Bao; crouched: Chris Xuan; not in photo: Fiona Grant).

Their assignment: three separate fall projects (PanoPlā, Student LIFE App, Food & Farm Discovery Centre). Read More →

Red River College Business and Technology Teacher Education students, Jessica Lister and Robert Porczek, hosted an event for Global Collaboration Day 2015 to connect pre-service teachers globally. The purpose of the event was to connect students and to create opportunities for global collaboration. Students created Google Slides that were shared via social media and on the Global Education Conference website so that other teacher education students could connect and participate. The image below is linked to the slides.

As we know, we live, work and learn in a very global society and to truly be successful today, students need to develop and/or enhance their intercultural competencies. Our current and future students need to be able to interact effectively and appropriately with people from diverse cultural backgrounds and have the ability to recognize, acknowledge, respect and incorporate an understanding of world views and their impact on relationships.

Aligned with these principles, Diversity and Intercultural Services offers two programs I would like to highlight:

1. The Intercultural Mentorship Program (IMP)

A one-on-one partnership between a Canadian-raised student (local mentor) and an immigrant/international student (global mentor).

Benefits:

• You give, gain and grow so much in a short time, commitment is only 10 hours of time over the course of a term
• Broaden your intercultural skills by learning about another culture while sharing your knowledge, skills and perspective of your own
• Develop your communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
• Create an opportunity for friendship while fostering the personal and professional growth of someone else
• Add to your resume (stand out from the rest) and obtain a reference
• Have FUN while making a difference in another student’s life
• Two Awards X $500 are available for partnerships that demonstrate the “spirit” of mentorship

To obtain additional information or to sign up for the IMP please visit: www.rrc.ca/imp – please note the sign up deadline for this term is September 17, 2015!

2. Step Out Of Your Box Program (SOYB)

A great opportunity to promote diversity, challenge stereotypes and help build a socially involved and responsible campus, workplace and society!

Benefits:

• Build your own adventure while exploring a new dimension of diversity
• Enhance your understanding of the multiple layers of diversity
• Develop respectful and effective interpersonal communication skills
• Connect with others in a meaningful way that builds skills and develops an awareness and an understanding of the diverse world we live in
• Become a leader and advocate for a “diversity” cause
• Add to your resume (stand out from the rest) and obtain a reference
• Four Awards X $500 are available for students who demonstrate active involvement and who step out of their comfort zone to make a difference!

To obtain additional information or to sign up please visit: www.rrc.ca/soyb

GIVE. GAIN. GROW. BE A MENTOR

Red River College Baccalaureate Nursing (BN) Grads were presented with their Nursing Pins at the Grant Memorial Church on Sept.10th, 2015. The pins mark transition from education and preparation into the profession of Nursing.

Congratulations to the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba Gold Medal Winner Candace Plett, Aboriginal Nursing Student Award Winner Jennifer Russel, and The Community Service Award winner Meagan McRae

The Faculty of Nursing would like to wish all the graduates all the best in their new beginnings in their journey of the nursing profession!

Four TOTT skilled trade examples

Apprenticeship Manitoba (AM), a long-time client of Red River College’s Teaching and Learning Technologies Centre (TLTC), dreamed mid-2014 of a game that could engage middle-school kids and introduce them to the world of the skilled trades. The vision was an immersive 3-D virtual world where custom avatars used all kinds of tools and materials to build cool stuff. But with a small budget and only a few months to deliver, it was a tall order. Read More →

Reuel Ramos Ribeiro is a computer science student from Brazil who, like his five other Brazillian BIT Project teammates, is getting extra experience in Canada thanks to the Brazilian government’s Ciência sem Fronteiras (Science Without Borders) program. Though Winnipeg and the BIT Program were selected for him, Reuel said that Canada appealed to him “because of its good quality of life, the respectfulness of its population (which is easy to find), and the low level of corruption”. A puzzle games enthusiast and problem-solving driven programmer, Reuel’s technology preferences are Web-related, and his skills in that area are quickly growing these days. Easily the most quiet of the team, Reuel shines in back-end development and his database and coding skills have underpinned everything the rest of the team has built. Read More →

This is Miguel, one of the three nerds working on the ACE Technology Corner Project. My responsibility in this project so far has been to obtain all the information that is being received while the solar cells are in operation.
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The project ACE Technology Corner is an amazing idea that our Chair, Haider Al-Saidi had. He asked these three nerds (Sylvia, Miguel & Pawan) to work on it and make it a reality.

Once upon a time (2015 AD) during the summer, Haider found out that RRC has had these Solar Panels installed 10 years ago, and he found a new application for them. Guess what?? The Solar Panels have been merely energizing our department’s staff by powering their coffee machine! No wonder our staff has been so greenly energized all the time. Haider thought of utilizing this massive power source. He decided to go to the nerdiest bunch in the department. This project will provide students an opportunity to work on a side-project in learning about Raspberry Pi and micro-controller technology, while providing a place for students to re-charge their phones, iPad and laptops etc.  That’s it, and the rest is history. #WIP

DMD graduates find work building websites and mobiles interfaces, shooting and editing video, creating and animating 3D graphics for video games, designing motion graphics, creating visual effects for film, and illustrating and designing graphics for other platforms. In general, our graduates work in one of four areas: 3D computer graphics, video and motion graphics, web/mobile design and development, and graphic design.
Some examples of places that have hired DMD graduates are Tactica, Think Shift, Direct Focus, Complex Games, ZenFri, Opus VFX, Tangent Animation, Handcraft Creative, Tripwire Media, Coelement, CBC, CTV, Global, Shaw, Relish Branding, Vantage Studios, Modern Earth, and McKim Communications.