Media Coverage

New local business providing princesses for parties

Published Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Excerpt: Giving children the experience of meeting their favorite fairy-tale characters no longer has to be a vacation. Spoonful of Sugar Events makes it possible to have princesses right at your doorstep. Spoonful of Sugar Events was created by 21-year-old Danielle Jake, a lifelong Ahwatukee resident, and 19-year-old Ryann Franklin. The two young entrepreneurs decided to start the business this year after meeting at another princess party. As for [Ryann] Franklin, she says costuming is...

Storm chaser to speak at Mesa Community College

Published Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Storm chaser Reed Timmer will speak about his experiences at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, at MCC. Mr. Timmer is one of a few to document an F5 tornado as well as Hurricane Katrina, according to a press release. 

MCC dental hygiene program seeks patients

Published Wednesday, September 10, 2014

The dental hygiene program at MCC is seeking patients who have not received entail care in three or more years to participate in its clinical education program.  Mesa Community College dental hygiene program seeks patients.pdf

Mesa Community College Successfully Trains Next Generation in Advanced Manufacturing with Aid of Tooling U-SME

Published Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Case Study Excerpt: "The Arizona Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AzAMI) of Mesa Community College (MCC) is helping meet the need for qualified, employable workers in the advanced manufacturing sectors, industries vital to Arizona, by building on workers’ prior experience, aligning training to industry needs and using innovative approaches to learning including Tooling U-SME online courses. "With the award of a 4-year, $2.5 million U.S. Department of Labor Trade  Adjustment Assistance...

Sept. 11 observances in Mesa focus on service, remembrance, honoring U.S. troops

Published Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Veteran Services at Mesa Community College is honoring U.S. troops with a moment of silence and flag-raising ceremony 8:30-9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, at Veterans’ Rose Garden at the college, 1833 W. Southern Ave. The garden entrance is the driveway closest to Dobson Road on Southern.

College athletics deliver many off-field benefits

Published Sunday, September 7, 2014

Excerpt of letter to the editor by Wayne Block, MCC SID: "My school, Mesa Community College, and, I am sure, Phoenix College and all junior colleges in Arizona have dozens of athletes who were in the top 10 percent of their high-school class, National Honor Society members and honor-roll members. In fact, one recent football player is now at Cornell, a school not likely to accept the academic failures that the letter writer believes enroll at junior colleges." 

College athletics deliver many off-field benefits

Published Sunday, September 7, 2014

Excerpt from Letter to the Editor: "The benefits of college athletics, as well as high-school sports, are far too numerous to outline here and have been expressed many times over the years. My outrage at his letter has primarily to do with his closing comment "Eliminate (PC) sports and maybe those athletes mentioned will get with the program and up those grades and pull themselves up out of the mire." -- By Wayne Block, MCC Sports Information Director. 

Community college book club to discuss 'Eating Animals'

Published Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Community college book club to discuss 'Eating Animals'

Community college district tries full slate of innovations, all at once

Published Thursday, August 28, 2014

The Hechinger Report, a publication devoted to reporting about education, has published a major article on Maricopa's innovative ideas and activities. 

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