Nunavut Arctic College

Pond Inlet honours 10 new college graduates!

Early Childhood Education students in Igloolik created web-based children’s stories as part of a literacy initiative in the North Baffin called The Muskox Project.

Inuit Heritage Trust will be awarding ‘The Alain Maktar Heritage Scholarship’ valued at $5000 to a beneficiary taking post secondary courses focused in Heritage. This scholarship is to honor former IHTI board member, Alain Maktar, who was an active member with a passion for archeology in and around Pond Inlet. The deadline to apply is June 29th, 2012. Guideline and application forms are available on the website: http://ihti.ca/eng/iht-proj-schl.html

Participants with this year's Environmental Technology Program (ETP) Winter Field Camp included 24 students, 4 instructors, 17 snowmobiles, and 12 qammotiqs. The annual expedition to Crazy Lake is a key component of the highly-successful program and a rite of passage for the program's students. The group left on March 28, 2012 and returned on April 4.

On Friday, March 23 the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Federal Minister of Health, visited the Pond Inlet Community Learning Centre to meet students from the Nunavut Teacher Education; Environmental Technology and Office Administration programs. In this photo, (left to right) are: Ainsley Hunt (NTEP: Faculty Member); Reoma Pewatualuk; Natasha Mablick; Hon. Leona Aglukkaq; and Eleanore Arreak. We thank Minister Aglukkaq very much for visiting our students!

Pond Inlet, Nunavut, March 23, 2012 – Residents of Pond Inlet now have more opportunities to get active thanks to the recent completion of a new community sports arena.

Nunavut Arctic College Environmental Technology Program (ETP) instructors Michelle McEwan and Jason Carpenter will join 150 polar educators from around the world at the IPY 2012 From Knowledge to Action Conference and PolarEDUCATORS Workshop being held this April in Montreal.

POND INLET, Nunavut (December 19, 2011) – Nunavut Arctic College students in Pond Inlet have the opportunity to earn a Diploma in Environmental Technology thanks to a generous contribution from Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation.

Gyu Oh, Fine Arts faculty member with the Nunavut Teacher Education Program, has had a very successful semester. Earlier in the term her Year 3 students staged an ambitious and innovative Art Exhibit at Nunatta campus, Iqaluit. Having seen the response from the College community, our Year 1 students indicated an interest in doing the same.

I have attached pictures of some of our Year 1 students and samples of the work they produced. It included such items as: soap stone carvings; prints; print making; timelines and block carving.

We thank the students for their first steps into the Fine Arts arena and Gyu Oh for her efforts on their behalf.

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