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Good day, my name is Nicole Morris and I have been working for Keewaytinook Okimakanak, in the Research Department as a summer student. One of my projects is to compile a list of Successful Students from the KIHS, to be displayed in the First Nations School web site.

If you have enrolled in KIHS and it was a success for you, we welcome you to share your experiences in participating in this project.  We are searching for information about students and their successes they experienced and are experiencing from their time at KIHS.

We will also be inviting other students from other schools to share their stories for this project as well. Questions will be asked of the students and we will work with your answers to produce a story about your experiences. These interviews and sharing will help others to get to know the student and their work.

There may be a lot of questions but most are easy to answer. The more detailed obtained during the interviews will help others learn about how KIHS has benefited the students and your communities. We hope to post the student profiles on the First Nations SchoolNet web site at http://firstnationschools.ca. This will give students an opportunity to share their experiences with the ICT equipment and encourage other students that are still living in their community to attend school.

Contact me for a copy of the questions for this project. This will be an on-going project for the Student Stories and Profiles.

We would like to have your information as soon as possible and would greatly appreciate being able to work with everyone willing to share their stories with us.

nicolemorris@knet.ca

toll free 1 877 737 5638 extension 51263
local  Thunder Bay # at 622 2812
(fax)  # 622 2861

Alternatively you may also contact Wesley McKay at

wesleymckay@knet.ca

Jim Sapay, Carleton Blackhawk and Tom Kuzemchuk from the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council worked with the K-Net team to develop a strategy for rolling out the NNEC video conferencing network across the Sioux Lookout district in each of the Wahsa Distance Education Learning Centres. Video conferencing equipment is presently installed in the Sioux Lookout NNEC sites (at the main admin building, Pelican Falls First Nations High School and at the Wahsa DE building) and in Thunder Bay at the Dennis Cromarty High School.

With the support of Industry Canada's First Nations SchoolNet program, each of the community learning centres delivering Wahsa high schools are now being outfitted with the same video conferencing systems. This equipment is intended to support NNEC and Wahsa to further develop and deliver their services for the Sioux Lookout District First Nations.

Former KO Director of Health Orpah McKenzie is in charge of Aboriginal Affairs at the Northern Ontario Medical School. She is encouraging more NAN students to prepare for careers in medicine and other health care careers.

She is looking for First Nations to host medical students for four-week placements during their first year starting in the winter semester of 2006. The purpose of these visits is to familarize medical students with the health realities of day-to-day life for community members on reserve.  "Fort Severn, Deer Lake, North Spirit Lake, Keewaywin and Poplar Hill would be ideal sites for these placements," said Orpah... For more information, call her at 1-807-766-7311...

Check out the photos of her visit...