Academic News

Anderson Pires Pereira, BIT Space Developer

“N&SAmerica-pol” by CIA, original political map from Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection; University of Texas Library Online. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Whereas Andre Felipe, the subject of our last BIT Project student profile, hailed from the massive metropolis of São Paulo, the largest city in the southern hemisphere at over 20 million inhabitants, Anderson Pires Pereira comes from Santa Vitória do Palmar (“Saint Victoria of the Palms”), a municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul whose population is smaller than Brandon Manitoba’s. Santa Vitória do Palmar is the most southerly corner of Brazil, lying a whopping 10,000 km from Winnipeg. It also includes the larger part of Cassino Beach, the world’s longest uninterrupted stretch of sandy ocean shore, over 240 km! Read More →

Nursing Week was celebrated at Red River College on May 15th with a successful hallway display and pizza lunch fundraiser.

RRC’s Health Centre, speaks to group of students

Nursing instructors, students and other departments collaborated to display information related to the field of nursing.

Relational Inquiry in Family Nursing

A big thank you to all who participated to make this annual event a success!

RRC Bookstore had a sale of Nursing merchandise

End of Sprint # 3 and our Brazilian BIT students continue to impress. BIT Space Development’s overarching goal is the delivery of gamified 360-degree panoramas, but its framework’s success hinges on the open-ended set of integrated games and activities that it will house and launch. To reach the broadest possible audience, that impressive collection of learning components (or activity types) is being called PanoPlā (pronounced pano play) and will deploy over the Web to any browser or mobile device. Read More →

Andre Felipe Costa Silva, BIT Developer

So how does a 20 year-old from  São Bernardo do Campo (a municipality of São Paulo, Brazil) end up in Winnipeg? Andre Felipe, a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) gamer who likes coding and reading poems, would tell you that it’s a mix of hard work and luck. His success in a System Analysis and Development program in Brazil won him a seat in the Business Information Technology (BIT) program. Now having completed two BIT academic semesters, Andre Felipe is part of a team of eight developers in the Massey Building who are building a platform for the delivery of interactive 360-degree panoramas. Read More →

We are having an information session for the Introduction to Business Information Technology, Business Information Technology, and the brand new Business Technology Management program.  Learn about our programs on Tuesday, May 26 at 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm at the Roblin Campus in room P107; or on Tuesday, June 2 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at Roblin Campus in room A104.

Red River College Nursing Department represented its programs at this year’s Rotary Career Symposium, located at the RBC Convention Centre.

The booth was visited by many high school students from all over the province, and the general public, seeking information that the Red River College programs have to offer.

For more Information about the various RRC Nursing/Health Sciences programs visit:
RRC Nursing Programs

Session 1 – Vinyl Cutting with Ron Budowski

Session 2 –  Plasma cutting with Gord Price

Watching the machine do the work.

Sprint 0 had been short, having only moved into our Massey space on Tuesday, May 5. First priorities were a quick Scrum immersion, settling on some core team tools (like Trello, our virtual Kanban board), and drafting team norms (such as donut preferences – these Brazilians LOVE chocolate glaze). Because our project will only run for four months, the team committed to one-week sprints and the delivery of something usable every Friday. Sprint planning is 10 am every Monday, we hold daily 10 am fifteen-minute scrums, and each Friday ends with a sprint review and retrospective. It was also important during this first week to lay out our broad development objectives and a general technology framework. Essentially, we intend to build a server-based delivery system for gamified 360-degree panoramas. It will support delivery to a desktop via a custom WordPress theme and accompanying plugins, or to mobile devices in the form of apps.   Read More →

Come Celebrate Nursing Week

with RRC’s Nursing Faculty

and Students!

May 15th in the Library Hallway

Pizza Lunch Fundraiser

From 1145 to 1300

Please join 3rd year Nursing students for a Health Fair as they share information on various health topics. Their posters will be on display on Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 from 12:30 to 2:30pm in the Library Hallway at Notre Dame Campus. Please come out and support the students’ practical learning!