NAIT takes the show on the road

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NAIT in Motion mobile education units are coming to a community near you.

To provide access to technical education to those living in the more remote parts of the province, NAIT built-at a cost of $1.4 million-two tractor-trailer units to function as classrooms on wheels. They are outfitted for programs ranging from business to trade-related programs, such as electrical, pipe trades and welding.

"Aboriginal communities make up the fastest growing segment of Canada's population. By 2015, the Aboriginal population will account for one in five young Albertans," said NAIT president Dr. Sam Shaw. "The NAIT in Motion units will bring training and employment opportunities to communities where the possibility had never existed before. We have already had interest in the units from as far north as Tuktoyuktuk and Inuvik, and I'm sure they will be a huge success for us."