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- Introducing the Kinesiology and Sport Studies Diploma, offering local students a unique opportunity to gain expertise in fitness, health promotion, and sport sciences, with pathways to rewarding careers in wellness and healthcare.
- A long-serving endowment fund that provides financial awards to Métis students attending Portage College is getting a $75,000 boost.Provided by the Métis Education Foundation Endowment Fund, the awards represent a continuing partnership between Portage College, the Métis Education Fund, the Otipemisiwak Métis Government, and the Rupertsland Institute. The endowment fund has provided financial awards to Portage College students each year since 2009.
- The 20-year-old students from Cold Lake are identical twins and are both about to complete the 20-week Emergency Medical Responder program at Portage College.
- Lac La Biche's Ismail Abougouche is playing for the Tri-City Americans in the WHL.The 6'3" 200-pound defenceman has an on-ice presence, but the 19-year-old is also active off the ice, helping youth in the community. He remembers when the Portage College Voyageurs hockey players hosted community events to help him as a young skater - and now he's doing the same for the next generation of players.
- A sacred Pipe Ceremony was held at Portage College recently, combining Indigenous tradition with the process to select the next President and CEO.
- Staff and students at Portage College campus locations took part in a week of awareness around the January 22 Bell Let's Talk Day for mental health awareness.
- Portage College events at campus locations across northeastern Alberta can boost regional economies. A recent college-level sporting event in Lac La Biche drew players and team officials to the community from five post-secondary institutions.
- Driving instructors at Portage College help to get the mental wheels spinning in the classroom when the vehicle wheels are spinning on icy winter roads
- Portage College is hosting the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference Futsal Regional Qualifier over the January 17 weekend in Lac La Biche - and the action will be hot enough to thaw any winter weekend chills.
- Portage College is excited to launch its new Computer Programming and IT Diploma, enhancing its existing certificate program. The diploma offers advanced courses in Cloud Technology, Cybersecurity, AI, and more, along with valuable work experience to help students prepare for in-demand tech careers in rural Alberta.
We acknowledge that Portage College’s service region is on the traditional lands of First Nation Peoples, the owners of Treaty 6, 8 and 10, which are also homelands to the Métis people. We honour the history and culture of all people who first lived and gathered in these lands.