Playwright Steve Yockey Heads to Mesa with DGF's Traveling Master's Program
Published Monday, February 13, 2017Broadway World reports that Steve Yockey (Very Still & Hard to See, Blackberry Winter) joins the Dramatists Guild Fund's Traveling Masters Program to work with student writers and offer feedback on their plays at Mesa Community College on February 16 & 17, during the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Playwright Steve...
Aquaponics
Published Thursday, February 9, 2017Cronkite News reports on the process of Aquaponics and interviews Dr. George Brooks, Jr., who teaches the subject at MCC. Video Hortidaily.com
Former T-Bird, Adam Sonabend, Hosts Baseball Camp for Foster Children
Published Wednesday, February 8, 2017My News Mesa reports that former Mesa Thunderbird and current San Francisco Giant minor league baseball player, Adam Sonabend, with help from about 15 other major leaguers, made that dream a reality for 50 children who live in foster care around the Valley. Former T-Bird Hosts Baseball Camp.pdf
MCC Announces Spring 2017 Arts Season
Published Wednesday, February 8, 2017My News Mesa and the Tempe Wrangler News report that Mesa Community College announced its spring 2017 arts season. Performances and exhibitions feature work by up-and-coming student artists as well as renowned master artists. MyNewsMesa.pdf Tempe Wrangler: MCC Arts Season.pdf and page 19 of http://www.wranglernews.com/pdf/wn020417.pdf
The Desert Reimagined with Artist Frank Gonzales
Published Wednesday, February 8, 2017The New Times features Arizona native Frank Gonzales, a skilled artist who creates imaginative acrylic paintings that capture the essence of the Sonoran desert. He studied painting at MCC. Frank Gonzales.pdf
Talent Search: Finding Potential to Fill the Need for Future Engineers
Published Monday, February 6, 2017ASU Full Circle reports on a grant that will provide $5 million over the next five years for ASU's Fulton Schools to partner with nine Arizona community colleges with aim of putting more students into the community college-to-ASU pipeline toward careers in engineering and related science and technology fields. The partner schools are Central Arizona College, Eastern Arizona...
FC Arizona Soccer to be Played in Mesa
Published Friday, February 3, 2017Mesa Independent reports that the long, excruciating wait for die-hard soccer fans in Mesa is finally over. FC Arizona is bringing the world’s most popular sport to town starting in March and maybe even a championship. FC Arizona opens its inaugural season March 4 at John D. Riggs stadium at Mesa Community College. The website is fcarizona.com. FC Arizona soccer at MCC.pdf
Open Mic Featuring Josh Rathkamp
Published Friday, February 3, 2017GCC website announces MCC Creative Writing Professor Josh Rathkamp to speak at Glendale Community College on Wednesday, February 15th from 7-9 p.m. Open Mic Featuring Josh Rathkamp.pdf
Maricopa Now February 2017 Edition: MCC Manufacturing and Automation Program
Published Wednesday, February 1, 2017The February edition of Maricopa Now features MCC's manufacturing and automation technology programs, with interviews from MCC instructors Harvey Johnson and Carl Whitesel and MCC student Thomas Sosa, TRW intern. Minute 3:25 https://youtu.be/XlV5xWJxy50?t=196
Not Fade Away (AzAMI)
Published Wednesday, February 1, 2017The Community College Journal reports: The Arizona Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AzAMI) is still a year away from the end of the U.S. Department of Labor grant that expanded the program. But already, AzAMI Executive Director Leah Palmer at Mesa Community College (MCC) in Mesa, Arizona, is fielding calls from companies that have hired her students through the...