Grads, staff and friends of NAIT continue to amass awards and accolades in everything from industry to innovation to athletics. here are a few recent winners.

Purdy Wiebe

Purdy Wiebe (pictured above), NAIT scholarship and bursaries administrator, won the 2010 novaNAIT Technology Commercialization Challenge for her idea to simplify the process of updating your contacts when you move. Wiebe won $10,000 in novaNAIT business development services.

Dr. Margaret-Ann Armour, Clifford Giese and Yasmin Jivraj

NAIT's 2011 Honorary Bachelor of Technology in Technology Management recipients are Yasmin Jivraj, president and co-owner of Acrodex, and Dr. Margaret-Ann Armour, University of Alberta associate dean (diversity) of Science.

An entrepreneur and IT professional, Jivraj co-founded Leap Toward the Future, an annual event to encourage young women to enter the IT industry.

Armour, an Edmontonian of the Century and a member of the Order of Canada, is a leader in environmentally responsible chemistry.

The Honorary Bachelor of Business Administration went to Clifford Giese (Marketing '68), who founded Mr. Lube and BioMS Medical (now Medwell Capital Corp.) as he worked to find a treatment for his wife, Robin (Secretarial and Office Administration '68), who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

Dean Vitisin, Katrina Lee and Igor Teterski

This trio won the second YTP-HATCH competition with their business plan for Triple-i Tracking Technologies, the inventory tracking and asset management company they launched after graduating from NAIT's Bachelor of Technology program in 2010. They won $20,000 in seed money and one year of office space in novaNAIT's business incubator.

Dean Turgeon

After being named 2010 Technologist of the Year by the Association of Science and Engineering Technology Professionals of Alberta, Dean Turgeon (Engineering Design and Drafting Technology '90) received the National Achievement Award from the Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists. Turgeon is recognized for helping to develop NAIT's Alternative Energy Technology program, as well as for achievements as president and founder of Vital Engineering Corporation, which specializes in geothermal technology.

Jack Bond

This Business Administration - Accounting grad ('10) took silver in the 66-kilogram division of Greco-Roman wrestling at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.