Grade 7 students from Columneetza Secondary School in Williams Lake took some tools for test drives at the annual Youth Discovers Trades event held at…
TRU Dean of Trades and Technology Baldev Pooni talked to Radio NL about the almost $2 million received for Indigenous student training in trades. Read…
News about funding to boost Indigenous trades programs was highlighted by Academica. Read more
New funding announced this week means Thompson Rivers University (TRU) will be offering trades training to Indigenous students closer to their homes and with needed…
News that TRU is starting a new Trades Assistant Program in February was picked up by several media outlets, including Academica Top Ten. The program…
TRU's recently opened Industrial Training and Technology Centre is featured on the cover and inside BC Focus magazine. It highlights what the university has…
Peter Poeschek started his career at what was then Cariboo College in 1989 as an electrical instructor. He’s been an integral component in the institution’s…
TRU trades put a group of girls, ages 12 to 15, to work building a daycare playhouse, teaching them how to use tools, read blueprints…
Youth from the Kamloops area and throughout British Columbia graduated from a week-long welding camp at TRU today, designed to provide introductory skills and plant…
Trades workers are in short supply and contractors are feeling the impact in Kamloops and across Canada. TRU Dean of Trades and Technology Baldev Pooni…
This summer, two camps of girls are at Thompson Rivers University learning carpentry skills and building playhouses for the on-campus daycare. Hear their story
This story first appeared in the spring 2019 edition of Bridges Magazine: The Sustainability Issue. Bridges is the official publication of TRU alumni and…
TRU School of Trades and Technology (STT) students have won Skills Canada Provincial Competition medals in nearly every category they entered back in April, with…
TRU’s School of Trades and Technology (STT) is enacting the university’s cross-campus Coyote Project in conjunction with local First Nations and government bodies, to provide…
BC Business magazine’s annual 30 Under 30 list celebrates young entrepreneurs at the top of their game from throughout the province, and TRU School of…
2019 30 Under 30 Winners Taylor Ross, 29 FOUNDER AND CEO TDR ELECTRIC Helmed by TRU alumnus Taylor Ross, Vancouver-based TDR Electric has grown to…
Helmed by TRU alumnus Taylor Ross, Vancouver-based TDR Electric has grown to 19 employees and five service vans that roam the Lower Mainland. The company…
Overseen by professionals and instructors, TRU trades students built about half of this year's Y Dream Home at Tobiano through the unique Training House program…
Overseen by professionals and instructors, TRU trades students built about half of this year's Y Dream Home at Tobiano through the unique Training House program…
The Eagle Valley News covered how student from Sicamous rocked this year's Skills Competition at TRU. Read more
