News at Assiniboine

Ever since the grade school days of getting a gold star for an assignment or a job well done, students have aspired to achieve and excel in the work they do. Receiving accolades in one’s class is admirable. Winning a school or city-wide honour is tremendously exciting. Being named the best in the province is beyond thrilling.

Assiniboine Community College, Brandon University and the Sexual Education Resource Centre (SERC) are partnering next week to recognize the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.

Assiniboine will be presenting former Grand Chief Phil Fontaine with an honorary diploma in Community Development at the college’s upcoming graduation ceremony in Brandon on June 1, 2017.

Hydro transmission lines and suspension towers are a common sight across the Prairie landscape, carrying electricity to homes and communities across our province. However, few of us would say we give much thought to how this complex system is built and maintained.

The community of Ebb & Flow First Nation joined for a ceremony and feast to celebrate the achievements of twenty-two new Assiniboine alumni.

Fourteen students from Assiniboine Community College took home medals last Thursday.

Cougars volleyball will host a skills camp for boys and girls incoming 6th-8th grade July 10th-14th

Second-year Business Administration student Cale Lewis took home a bronze award in the Logo Pitch Competition at this year’s Manitoba New Venture Championships held earlier in the month.

Assiniboine partnered with Peguis Employment & Training, Fisher River Human Resource Program, Peguis Surrender Trust, and Manitoba Education & Training to offer Piping Trades Level 1 in Peguis First Nation.

Assiniboine Community College unveiled a set of priorities for its Parkland Campus in Dauphin today with the aim of developing the campus into a Regional Partnership Centre.