LAKELAND COLLEGE spring 2010
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design attracts international attention When Teresa Simon learned that she had placed third in a North American student design competition she was not only proud of herself, but also of Lakeland College’s interior design technology program. “My accomplishment is also our program’s accomplishment,” says Simon of her third place finish in the bathroom segment of the 2009-2010 National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA) student design competition. Originally from Regina, Simon chose to attend Lakeland College because of all the award-winning students its two-year diploma program has produced. Now she’s one of those students. This marks the eighth consecutive year an interior design student has received recognition in a competition.
Teresa Simon
Participants in this year’s NKBA competition were challenged to create a bathroom design that maintained the historic ambiance of a 1910 home while adding modern conveniences. “I was happy with the design I created but I didn’t expect to do well in the competition,” says Simon. Fortunately she was wrong. Simon’s entry placed third out of 119 entries submitted from colleges and universities throughout North America. She received a $1,000 prize from the NKBA and two tickets to the Kitchen/Bath Industry Show 2010. The 34-year-old Simon says she wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Lakeland’s interior design program to others. “Our instructors are great and the students are really supportive of each other. It’s challenging and there are a lot of nights when we’re all working in the lab until midnight, but that’s what makes it such a strong program,” says Simon.
Wow factor of science labs entices pre-med student to switch to Lakeland Pre-med student Taylor Wolters was big city bound but all that changed after he toured the new science labs and attended a university transfer pre-registration session at Lakeland College’s Lloydminster campus. The decision to start his post-secondary education at Lakeland is one Wolters says he and his family are very happy about. “The labs are pretty cool,” says Wolters, a Grade 12 student at Vermilion’s J.R. Robson High School. “I’ve always loved science so all the new equipment is pretty awesome.”
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Lakeland’s new science labs were equipped last year with almost $1 million of technology that includes a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer, a DNA analysis digital imaging system, fluorescence microscope, high performance liquid chromatography and an ultracentrifuge which can spin samples to almost 150,000 rpm. Wolters adds that potentially receiving an academic excellence scholarship based on his Grade 11 marks also helped sway his decision. In terms of his pre-medicine studies, Wolters knows he’ll have to work hard to earn high marks during his two years at the Lloydminster campus so he can transfer to university, but he is confident he will succeed. LAKELAND COLLEGE << 1 >>