We are proud of our BCIT students, faculty, and staff for all their success in the 2024-2025 academic year. This is a snapshot of some of the high-profile recognition earned in BC and around the world. Congratulations!
Student awards
First Place / Gold
Assistive Straw Team (Kibum Park, Michael Lam, and Mitch Linley)
- Principal Award, Simon Cox Student Design Competition 2025
Ernest Barron, Yiming Zhu, and Nickolay Makarenko
- Best UX Award, AI Startup Hub
BCIT Bridge Building Club (Ethan Aliwalas, John Bogusz, Ravi Gill, Izack Ginter, Marina Heisel, Joshua Johnson, Trevor Lau, Luke Loewen, Patrick Ngo, Ronin Sakamoto, Avi Uppal)
- Highest Ultimate Load Carrying Capacity category, 41st Troitsky Bridge Competition
- Highest Structural Efficiency category, 41st Troitsky Bridge Competition
- Design Lab Marketing Competition, International Collegiate Conference 2025, American Marketing Association
- CNC Machining, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
- Merit Award, Student National Design Awards, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA)
Shiori Ito
- Cabinetmaking, 2025 AWMAC BC Apprenticeship Contest, AWMAC BC
- Motorcycle and Power Equipment, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
- Cabinetmaking (Joinery), Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
- Precision Machining, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
- IT Network Systems Administration, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
Kyle Vu, Noah Shigabaki-Ong, and Pierre Koelich
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Esri Canada App Challenge, Esri Canada
- Aerospace Technology, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
- Automation and Control (Electrical), Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
- Automation and Control (Electrical), Skills Canada National Competition 2025
- Sheet Metal, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
- Precision Machining, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
- IT Network Systems Administration, Skills Canada National Competition 2025
Second Place / Silver
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CNC Machining, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
Sarah Chen, Si Yeon Kim, and Crystal Wang
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Esri Canada App Challenge, Esri Canada
Emma Currie, Wasawat Joongjai, Minh Tam Le, and Daniel Yang
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ASCM Western Canada Student Challenge 2025
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Electronics, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
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Cabinetmaking (Joinery), Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
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Aerospace Technology, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
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Motorcycle and Power Equipment, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
Felix Omondi, Noelia Guzman, Mark Juric, Rabia Thind
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NextGen Risk: Insurance Case Competition 2025, Insurance Institute of Canada
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Sheet Metal, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
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Precision Machining, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
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IT Network Systems Administration, Skills Canada National Competition 2025
Third Place / Bronze
- Case Competition, International Collegiate Conference 2025, American Marketing Association
- Aerospace Technology, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
- Motorcycle and Power Equipment, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
- Heavy Vehicle, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
- Precision Machining, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
Trevor Haramincic, IT Network Systems Administration, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
- Cabinetmaking (Joinery), Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
- Automation and Control (Electrical), Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
- CNC Machining, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
Reel EZ Team (Mathew Mansfield, Luis Chavez, and Odin Lithgow)
- Innovation Award, Simon Cox Student Design Competition 2025
- Peer's Choice Award, Simon Cox Student Design Competition 2025
- Electronics, Skills Canada BC Competition 2025
Institute and faculty/staff awards
BCIT
- BC's Top Employers 2025, Canada's Top 100 Employers
- Canada's Best Employers 2025, Forbes
- Canada's Greenest Employers for 2025, Canada's Top 100 Employers
- Clean Energy Champion 2024, BC Hydro
- Silver Rating, Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS), Association for Advancement in Higher Education (AASHE)
- Top Performer, 2024 Sustainable Campus Index, Association for Advancement in Higher Education (AASHE)
- BCIT Better Future Campaign - Fall 2024 - Gold, Best Advertisement or Poster category, Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE) Prix d'Excellence 2025
- BCIT Better Future Campaign - Fall 2024 - Silver, Best Photography category, Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE) Prix d'Excellence 2025
- BCIT Don't Get Hooked campaign - Silver, Employee Engagement/Internal Communications Campaign of the Year category, 2025 Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) Awards of Excellence
BCIT Guichon Creek Restoration project
- Envision Platinum, Sustainable Infrastructure, Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure
- Green Choices category, 2025 Environmental Stars, City of Burnaby
- Gold, Wheelchair Race category, CYBATHLON 2024
BCIT Tall Timber Student Housing
- Award of Merit, Awards for Engineering Excellence, ACEC BC Awards
- Outstanding Structure, SEE Awards, National Council of Structural Engineers Association
Megan Bennett, Interior Design Faculty
- 2025 IDIBC Fellows Honorees, Interior Designers Institute of British Columbia (IDIBC)
Michael Bonshor (Gixkan'dzi), Managing Director, First Nations Business Development Association; Chair, BCIT Board of Governors
- BIV BC500 2025, Business in Vancouver
Joe Cosh, Director, BCIT Facilities Improvements
- Planning and Development category, 2025 Environmental Awards, City of Burnaby
Sharon Hollingsworth, Interior Design Faculty
- Robert Ledingham Award, Interior Designer of the Year, Award of Excellence and Award of Merit, Climate Action and Innovation for The Drive Duplex, Shine Awards 2025, Professional Interior Designers Advocacy Association
Tiia Manson, Program Head, Bachelor of Interior Design
- 2025 IDIBC Fellows Honorees, Interior Designers Institute of British Columbia (IDIBC)
- BIV BC500 2025, Business in Vancouver
- BIV BC500 2025, Business in Vancouver
BCIT Distinguished Awards
- BCIT Honorary Doctorate of Technology 2025, British Columbia Institute of Technology
- BCIT Distinguished Alumni Award 2024, British Columbia Institute of Technology
- BCIT Faculty and Staff Association Distinguished Alumni Award 2024, British Columbia Institute of Technology
- BCIT Outstanding Student Leadership Award 2024, British Columbia Institute of Technology
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