Melissa Barr

VERMILION - From the classroom to the farm to the sales ring, students with Lakeland College’s Student-Managed Farm – Powered by New Holland (SMF) are making connections that matter. During their second year of the animal science technology program, students are given the option to complete an industry practicum or take the reins of one of the SMF’s units, which include dairy, commercial beef, equine, extensive grazing and purebred beef.

When word spread among the fire fighting community that a wildfire was threatening the town of Jasper, it felt personal to Shawn McKerry. The dean of Lakeland College’s Emergency Training Centre and Class of 2006 alum of the emergency services technology (EST) program has personal experience with the sort of devastation a fire like this can leave on a community. McKerry fought the fires that destroyed Slave Lake in 2011 and Fort McMurray in 2016. Jasper, though, felt different.

Catch up on hot topics and ideas from the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live 2023 in Las Vegas Estimated read time: 8 minutes The DevNet Zone at Cisco Live 2023 in Las Vegas was the place to gain hands-on experience with Cisco tools, code, and other developer resources. As industries fast-track their shift toward the cloud, the demand to understand system observability and strengthen cloud native application security is continuing to increase.