Tom & I would like to thank everyone from the chapter for another fantastic Student Night. There have been many positive comments coming back from both the UofA, and NAIT students. Please remember that the Student Activities Comittee will be in contact with these students, so if you are in need of an up-and-coming HVAC’er please feel free to contact us and we will be sure to pass this message along to the students.
Annually the local chapter hands out copies of the ASHRAE Pocket Guide to our student members. This pocket sized book has a ton of information within its pages. Every year these books are distributed courtesy of the Don Holte Endowment Fund. As a legacy of his service to our chapter and the ASHRAE Society at large, this fund was set up. Wita Holte has directed our chapter to provide direct benefit to HVAC students from it, as Don was a large supporter of students in our industry.
Congratulatons to Taylor Wight as this year’s ASHRAE NAC Scholarship recipient. Taylor is a currently a student at the U of A. Keep up the hard work Taylor, and we look forward to seeing you at more ASHRAE events.
Please make these students feel welcome at upcoming events. Your kind words and friendly faces have helped make these folks feel welcome, and hopefully, will become familiar faces for years to come.
With just over two weeks until the John Ross Spiel, things are looking great. This should be another great social event put on by your local ASHRAE chapter.
If you are interested in donating prizes to the hottest event on ice this year please send an email to curling@ashraenac.org
Are you interested in helping out young up and coming members that are looking to break into the HVAC profession?
NAIT has a strong history of supplying local companies with HVAC professionals. Over the past few years our chapter has been active in reaching out to these students as well as the mechanical engineering students at the U of A. The past couple of years the U of A has put together a program that specifically deals with the Building Sciences industry. This elective course is full of students who are hoping to enter the Building Sciences field upon graduation. NAIT currently supplies our industry form a few separate programs. We will once again be speaking to many of these students this year.
Here is where you come in. We would like to offer you the opportunity to help out these students and be recognized. For each student that is sponsored we will recognize this contribution with a sticker on the inside of the student fundamentals book that will be presented to them. As well each student sponsor will be recognized to the local membership.
After several discussions, we are asking the Northern Alberta Membership to sponsor these students. Many of these students understand what is out there but do not truly realise the benefit of membership. Having a student membership allows these students to access numerous technical resources, be part of technical committees helping to shape our technology, and be informed of the daily in and outs of our industry. As well these students and potential employees will be encouraged to walk among us at our monthly meetings and various social events.
Currently we are looking to have these students membership fees covered and a copy of the current ASHRAE Fundamentals provided to these students for use in their studies.
This sponsorship opportunity is just $75 but will mean so much more to an up and coming HVAC student as well as our chapter..
Members of the Student Activities Committee will be contacting people shortly.
If you are interested please contact:
studentactivities@ashraenac.org
Please join us at 5pm for cocktails, then 6pm for dinner.
The post-dinner program will include an address from Society President Lynn Bellenger, and chapter student scholarships will be awarded to recipients from NAIT and the University of Alberta.
Since this meeting is our YEA and Student Night, students are admitted free of charge* and YEA members (35 years or younger) are admitted for the regular student price of $10*.
{*Attendees must RSVP in advance to qualify for this offer.}
Watch for the official meeting notice in your inbox. Please contact admin@ashranac.org to be added to our mailing list.
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