Silver Pen Award 2018

This year, LINK  honours Eda Aktas and Emily Vance with the 2017/18 Silver Pen Award. Both of these BCIT students showed tremendous dedication, growth, and community influence in the work that they contributed to LINK magazine this past year. Individually, they produced pieces on a variety of important issues, but perhaps their most important work came as a collaboration together alongside…

CAMPUS CHILDCARE EXPANSION GRAND OPENING

On Friday March 9, the BCIT Student Association (BCITSA) welcomed Burnaby North MLA Janet Routledge and BCIT President Kathy Kinloch into the SA’s newly renovated Child Care Centre on the Burnaby Campus (SE41). In 2016, the previous provincial government announced an investment in child care, with a substantial portion going to upgrading BCIT’s current services and facilities. This…

January Photo Walk

Check out a selection of photos from LINK’s January 2018 Photo Walk! Photos by Ryan Bevelander and Madeline Adams. [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Slider_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Maddy AdamsMaddy Adams is the Publications Assistant for LINK Magazine- and as well a wedding, portrait and candid photographer based in Vancouver. She enjoys experimenting with different cameras, lenses and mediums. Whether she has…

AFFORDABLE STUDENT HOUSING IN 2018 BC BUDGET

Today’s provincial budget announcement saw historic investment in affordable housing for students. With just over 300 units, BCIT is one of the least-served postsecondary institutions with respect to student housing. Today’s announcement of $450 million in low-cost financing for affordable student housing is an important step towards enhancing student life. “Metro Vancouver has some of…

RECAP: BCIT HOSTS WEC

Last month, BCIT became the first polytechnic institute to host the Western Engineering Competition — an annual student-organized competition that tests young engineers in the fields of design, innovation and discourse. We sent writer Austin Czerwinski over to the Delta Hotel to drop-in on the competition and meet some of the teams visiting from across…

Photo Feature: International Students at BCIT

International. My identity, not my label. For our November issue, we paired student photographer Braeden Frew with writer Tanushree Pillai for a personal look at the international student experience at BCIT. Braeden and Tanu gathered together a few of the talented and hardworking international students that help contribute to LINK magazine each month for a photo shoot on the Burnaby campus. These are just some…