Get Scholarship Reminders and More from our Facebook Page 

Garth will post links and reminders to events like Open Houses and Career Fairs and you will also find reminders of upcoming scholarship deadlines.  Just click the Icon below and then follow the page. 

The News Page 

The News Page attempts to keep you up to date on opportunities like a job posting or an internship opportunity.  You will also find open house dates for colleges and universities and dates of anything else we find exciting.  

Fall & Winter Opportunities 

September
30 - U of C Open House 
30 - U of L Open House 
 
​October 
14 - Kings University in Edmonton Open House
​18 - Loran Award deadline for sponsored students 
20/21 - Lakeland College Open House
20 - Olds College Open House 
21 - University of Alberta Open House 
25 - Horation Alger Award - last day to apply  
25 - Loran Award deadline for direct pool students 
27/28 - DreamCatcher Aboriginal Youth Conference at MacEwan University

​November 
2 - Lethbridge College Open House - register online for tuition credit draw
​4 - Red Deer College Open House 
16 - King's Encounter Weekend - Kings University in Edmonton 

December
1 King's View Friday  at Kings University in Edmonton 

How to Use This Site 

The HOME PAGE has some key announcements and even a motivating thought at the bottom. 

CAREER START page has information on the five common directions students choose at the end of high school, including: 
1) Post Secondary 
2) Trades and Technology 
3) GAP years 
4) Armed Forces
5) Work World Options 

About Us has information about the career practitioner

Useful Links has,not surprisingly, links to great career and job sites.  Often specific industries make efforts to recruit when they recognize they will be facing a shortage of skilled workers.  

Graduation and Transition has links to sites that students and parents might use when planning specific transitions.  A check list for High School graduation, links to the NCAA for athletes and links to the SAT and ACT sites. 

News and Opportunities is an attempt to pass on information to students and their parents.  Find:
  • specialty programs
  • summer camps
  • student internship opportunities
  • volunteer and work "help wanted' postings
  • open houses and more. 

Click on the button below to see a video produced by the Government of Canada regarding the new world of work. 

Learning Clicks 

Learning Clicks is a Government of Alberta program that helps students understand the benefits of Post Secondary Education and also the options available and how students participate in the various programs. 

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Just Thinking - These Two Thoughts May Be Related 

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer, (1875 - 1965) Theologian (Doctorate Degree), Musician, Medical Doctor, Prisoner of War, Writer, Nobel Prize Winner.  

Stay hungry, stay foolish and do what you love." - Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011