Author: Grant Hamilton

Article by Graeme Bruce, Brandon Sun
In a small computer lab on the bottom floor of Brandon University’s Brodie Building,three computer science students spent Saturday afternoon with their eyes glued to monitors,scanning through lines of programming code.
The third-year students — Roque Lacroix, Alex Trush and Bailey Kacsmar — are making a run at a worldwide programming contest, which almost guarantees winners a golden ticket to Google or Microsoft.

Students entering the first year of the two year after degree program in the Faculty of Education were kept busy the first week in September with orientation. Students were introduced to faculty and rotated through various learning stations.

ITEP students with Professor Carolyn Creed and Brandon University Dean of Education, Dr. Heather Duncan
Starting in July 2009, a group of people started a journey in the basement classroom of the Ashern Elks Hall. Today, they are headed into the final leg of that journey with the finish line in their sights.

Photography by Colin Comeau, Brandon Sun
Article by Graeme Bruce, Brandon Sun

For the slew of workers who keep the Maple Leaf plant humming, or those students who chose Brandon University as their stomping grounds, the Chinese New Year celebrations remind Brandon’s growing Chinese community of home.
But three-year-old Tahlia Burton won’t have any memories of her birthplace in southern China.