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Home / 2018 / October / 09 / UBC Okanagan welcomes alumni and community home

UBC Okanagan welcomes alumni and community home

October 9, 2018

Two-day event celebrates the growth and diversity of the campus

What: UBC Okanagan Homecoming
Who: UBC Okanagan graduates, students, faculty, staff and the local community
When: Numerous events on Friday, October 19 and Saturday, October 20
Where: Various locations on the university campus and across Kelowna

With UBC Okanagan reaching several key milestones in recent years—marking 10 years of academic excellence and having a student population of 10,000—it’s time to celebrate.

UBC Okanagan is hosting Homecoming, inviting alumni and the community to campus to see what’s changed, meet up with friends and share stories of the early days. It’s a weekend full of signature events including a kick-off breakfast, chemistry demonstrations, engineering extravaganza, a soccer game between rivals the UBC Thunderbirds and the UBC Okanagan Heat, a scavenger hunt and many more events.

Friday wraps up with Streetfest—including music by award-winning country artist Ben Klick, carnival games, food trucks and a beer garden.

Homecoming concludes Saturday evening with Nourish, a harvest reception featuring more than 20 tasting stations from Okanagan restauranteurs, winemakers, craft brewers and cider producers. Nourish begins with a talk by Canadian Olympic champion Jon Montgomery, famous for his ‘beer walk’ in Whistler after his gold-medal win.

Montgomery is host of The Amazing Race Canada. He will share the story of his Olympic journey and discuss the lessons he learned about teamwork, leadership and dreaming big.

Tickets for Nourish are $50 and available at: events.eply.com/UBCOHomecoming20182497401

More information about Homecoming can be found at: ok.ubc.ca/homecoming

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The University of British Columbia
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Tel: 250 317 0293
E-mail: patty.wellborn@ubc.ca

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About UBC Okanagan

UBC’s Okanagan campus is an innovative hub for research and learning founded in partnership with local Indigenous peoples, the Syilx Okanagan Nation, in whose traditional, ancestral and unceded territory the campus resides. The most established and influential global rankings all consistently place UBC in the top five per cent of universities in the world, and among the top three Canadian universities.

The Okanagan campus combines a globally recognized UBC education with a tight-knit and entrepreneurial community that welcomes students and faculty from around the world in British Columbia’s stunning Okanagan Valley. For more visit ok.ubc.ca.

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We respectfully acknowledge the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples, in whose traditional, ancestral, unceded territory UBC Okanagan is situated.

 

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