2025 News
60 years and counting for Emergency Training Centre
For more than six decades, Lakeland's Emergency Training Centre (ETC) has trained leaders for the frontline of emergency services. When ETC—then known as the Fire Officers Training School—opened in 1959 under the jurisdiction of the Alberta Fire Commissioner's Office, approximately 100 aspiring...
Alumna combines passion for horses and trades
j'Amey Bevan's journey from a downtown Vancouver city girl to the chair of the Government of Alberta's Apprenticeship & Industry Training Board is a complex one. She charted her own course, blending her love for the trades with her love of horses. Her first step on that journey was Lakeland College. A...
Designing for a sustainable future
Second-year interior design technology students grew their skills in sustainable design thanks to a locally sourced project. They were assigned to design a sustainable home for a fictitious client based on the Trout Pond in Vermilion Provincial Park. The project combined what the students have...
Math Fair mixes math and play
As when solving any math equation, students in Lakeland College's university transfer program's higher arithmetic course carefully examined all variables when designing their games for Math Fair. First, they had to propose three different games to their instructors and have them evaluated to ensure...
HOPE students hired to Energy Centre operation
Lakeland College offers a tremendous opportunity studies for second-year heavy oil power engineering students to take their first career steps during their studies. Students are hired as student operators and tasked to operate the Lloydminster campus and Energy Centre boilers on weekends. “Working...