Hi there everyone. My name is Sally Vinden and I am here today to welcome you to Vancouver Island University
trades programs. I'm standing outside of the Windsor Plywood Trades Discovery Centre
and this is where we're going to begin a virtual tour so follow me we're going to walk this way.
Hi there. Welcome to VIU carpentry. My name is Cam Fernette. I'm the chair of the carpentry program.
Hi everybody and welcome to VIU hairdressing. My name is Joanne Slocum. I am an instructor and chair within the VIU hairdressing program.
Hello. David Babich here from VIU power engineering welcoming you to the program here for 2020 and 2021.
Hello future baking students of the fall 2020-21 intake. I'm chef Gower. I'm going to be one of your instructors and I'm
the chair of the program here i'm here to welcome you.
Welcome to VIU horticulture. I'm Jessica Gemella and I'm the chair and instructor here in our one year foundation program
Hi there. I'm Jason Lloyd - I'm the chair here of our culinary programs at the Nanaimo campus. I also
take care of our Cowichan campus and Powell River.
Hi there and welcome to the Office Administration program. My name is Terry Barber and I'm the chair of the program.
Hi everyone. My name is Graham White and I'm the chair of the Information Technology and Applied Systems program here at Vancouver Island University.
Hello everyone - my name is Shane Dallagher. I'm an electrical instructor as well as the chair of the electrical program here at VIU.
Hello everybody - my name is Dale Baumel. I'm
one of the instructors here at VIU and want to welcome you guys to the VIU automotive service technician program.
Hi - I'm Glynnis Steen. I'm the Dean of Trades and Applied Technology.
I wanted to take this opportunity to meet you and so you could also put a face with a name.
I know our education is going to look a little bit different for the fall semester. We are going to be
doing what we call a hybrid approach - you're going to be doing some online, you're going
to be working over zoom but you're also going to have an opportunity to do face-to-face practical experience.
As you can see from our shop we're all set up for social distancing with different
policies and procedures in place. We'll be bringing in students in shifts for our apprenticeship. You'll
either be in the monday/tuesday group or the wednesday/thursday group to allow you to get
lots of time on the tools. If you're part of our foundation program we have two houses on our site
this year so we'll be separating the class into half the class on one house, half the class on
the other house so there will still be lots of time on tools so we can get all of our practical
components done for this training.
Things will look a little bit different. We will be working online, as well as face-to-face within the program - smaller class sizes. We have all the safety measures in
place to ensure your safety while attending class here in the fall.
With Covid 19 we're now going to be doing a lot of stuff online through via zoom we're going to be bringing you guys in as much as
possible to get as much practical type of work in this shop as possible.
The program this year will be a hybrid delivery due to Covid concerns. First of all, there will be a 10-week in-class delivery
via zoom followed by a 12-week practicum. Most of the practicums will be here on Vancouver Island
and we have some available on the mainland as well for those of you who that's a better choice for .
Following the completion of your practicum there will be a 10 week delivery by zoom
again of the b part material and following that you will be able to sit your final csbc exam for
certification as a fourth class power engineer.
We're planning on doing a hybrid delivery which means that you will be in the bakery for one week at a time for 35 hours - that's five seven hour days
where you'll be doing all kinds of hands-on baking. The following week you would then be at home doing
assignments and theory online and some zoom sessions with myself or our other instructor
chef Harper and then you come back to the bakery for the third week and so on back and forth until
the end of december. We will also have a satellite bakery in the cafeteria which is over there
and that means that we'll be able to have lots of room for social distancing so you'll spend some
time in the satellite bakery and some time in the actual bakery but you will get all the training
that you normally would in a regular year.
I'm standing in one of our outdoor classrooms where we learn about plant identification and landscape maintenance and construction. We also have some
classes that are in the greenhouse where we learn how to grow all kinds of different crops
like bedding plants and hanging baskets and in the winter time our fall semester we work on
growing poinsettias. Part of our program currently includes a lot of experiential project learning
that students do at home where they do a lot of their own observations at home in the garden and
do some growing at home. This year we're going to have grow tents and we'll do some comparisons of
using a grow tent to grow poinsettias at home and also what's happening in the greenhouse and we can
get a sense of the different kinds of controls and and how you can create optimal growing conditions.
Other courses - we have our landscape design, soil science, we have a full range of starting from
botany to all kinds of more creative endeavors. Our students range from being interested in
food production to ornamental to greenhouse crops. Some students work in nurseries, some students
work in a greenhouse, some students end up working on farms, landscape construction.
Horticulture industry is booming right now and there's lots of opportunities to grow
We're very excited to be working with you this year. The office administration program is a
phenomenal program for creating a career path for you in the administrative field
and you are going to be very happy that you chose it. Faculty have been working very hard this summer
to get everything ready so that we can provide you with an interactive, immersive experience.
You will be doing group work and team challenges as well as working
daily with your instructors through zoom and VIU Learn.
We're looking forward to having you here. We're busy getting set up right now. We
have all of our kitchens getting ready to go. We're gonna be teaching you in a hybrid
delivery but it's gonna be 75% face to face so what we've been able to do is have real life
situations - you're going to get your experiential learning cooking for a dining room, our
discovery room will be up and operational. We'll be cooking for real customers in the cafeteria.
We are really excited to see you in the weeks to come as we deliver
our hybrid online and practical experience model of learning for this upcoming semester.
You're still going to gain practical experience and seat time with servers, networking equipment ,
doing web coding and all these great things that make up successful IT employees. We're very
excited about this program and your prospects. Our students are receiving work even here in
the mid island or remotely around the world as IT systems administrators and web developers and
coders. There's a lot of demand in this growing field and we're really excited for your future.
As we move forward into this fall we'd like you to know that we are going to be keeping both
you and the instructor safe by applying covid restrictions while doing your online labs. We're
going to be doing a combination of online labs with practical labs. O ur foundation students will
be coming in and actually getting the hands-on experience that they need in a foundations course.
I want to let you know that your learning experience and your safety are number one to us.
Our instructors have been working really hard to ensure a great learning experience for you.
We've also put health and safety protocols in place so when you do come here and you do your
face-to-face and practical experience you'll be following those health and safety protocols.
When you're here face-to-face and if you happen to see me on campus please introduce yourself to me
of course maintaining our social distance. We are happy that you're going to become
part of the VIU family thank you for choosing trades and applied technology programs at VIU.
We're really excited to have you come and take the program with us and we think actually this is
going to be one of the best years ever and for sure it will be the most interesting year ever.
We look forward to seeing you.
We look forward to seeing you in the fall.
We really look forward to seeing you.
We will see you this semester coming up and we look forward to meeting all of you.
Looking forward to having you aboard. Thank you for choosing VIU.
We really look forward to seeing you.
So be prepared, get ready to do some homework and we cannot wait to welcome you to the class. See you then.
Looking forward to seeing you guys in September. Thank you very much.
Well that wraps up a virtual tour of the trades programs today.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to
reach out to us. We're here for you and we really look forward to seeing you in the fall. Bye!