Eleven years ago, Alfred Thompson sat at a crowded desk, calculating volts and amps, wondering if the motor on his circuit design would spin. This spring, he walked back into the very same style of classroom, only now the students looked to him for the answers he once sweated over.

Thompson, who took the Electrical program at RRC Polytech’s Fisher River Cree Nation campus in 2014, returned this year not as a student, but as an instructor. Now based in Peguis First Nation, he is teaching 14 students in the same five-month program that introduced him to the electrical trade more than a decade ago. The course, running from April to November 2025, also includes Elder guidance and Indigenous Teachings.

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