A trip to California in late August for the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Annual Conference proved to be inspiring and educational for a pair of Humber Polytechnic students. 

The Humber Polytechnic community is encouraged to participate in a self-guided experience at the Humber Arboretum that celebrates land-based play and co-learning, Indigenous ways of knowing and of the deep connections between children, land and community.   

The special outdoor StoryWalk features the children’s picture book Walking Together that was co-authored by Mi’kmaw Elder Albert Marshall and Humber Early Childhood Education Professor Louise Zimanyi. 

Humber Polytechnic students participated for the first time ever at the RoboBoat 2025 competition and returned home with an award.

Humber was one of 27 teams at the international competition that had students designing autonomous, robotic boats to navigate through a course. These boats are also designed to tackle tasks that mimic real-world challenges facing the marine industry including coastal surveillance, environmental monitoring and other types of oceanographic operations.

Ever since she was a child, Nicole Maurer had a keen interest in architecture.

Maurer, a 2015 graduate of Humber Polytechnic’s Architectural Technology program, remembers going for walks with her parents as a child and, when she saw a home that interested her, wanting to go up and knock on the front door and ask the homeowners if she could go for a tour of it.

It’s back-to-back gold medal wins at the Skills Canada National Competition for Humber Polytechnic students Grant Maddock and Cole Hunter.

It sounded a bit like a Nike ad when the panelists at the International Women’s Day discussion at Humber Polytechnic were asked for advice they would give to high school students interested in pursuing a career in engineering and technology.

As a child, Samara Ocansey loved playing with LEGOs.

She would spend countless hours playing with the little blocks as she built houses and structures. Even at that young age, Ocansey knew she wanted to be working in the design and construction of buildings.

Fast forward to today and Ocansey is a third-year student in Humber Polytechnic’s Bachelor of Engineering - Sustainable Building Engineering program.  

If there’s a word of advice Carson Arthur has for Humber Polytechnic students, is to seize the opportunities provided to help you gain an edge while at Humber.

He did - and look where it’s taken him.

When Civil Engineering Technology program graduate Shanell Roye arrived in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, she found herself without a network of friends and family like back home.

Adrian Presot started working with wood in his garage during the COVID-19 pandemic when he was stuck at home.
 
He had no plans or aspirations to find a career in the field – it was just something he enjoyed doing that helped fill the time.
 
Fast-forward to today and Presot, who graduated from Humber Polytechnic’s Industrial Woodworking Technician program, is employed as a Cabinetmaker Apprentice with the House of Commons Canada in Ottawa.