Phoenix Business Journal reports on the 11th Avnet Tech Games, with MCC students participating and winning Networking Challenge.
The April 13 issue of the Mesa Independent covered several MCC stories, including Kennedy Theatre and Film Awards, Legally Blonde and Art Student Show.
After receiving an associate's degree in graphic design from Mesa Community College and a degree in marketing from ASU, McDaniel put her talents into KAYRAE, a non-profit company that opened in August of 2014 to allow local artists in the community to display their talent. State Press article
The Mesa Community College softball team swept both games of a doubleheader over Chandler-Gilbert at home Tuesday, 5-1 and 7-6, with the team rallying down two in the bottom of the seventh in the second game. The Thunderbirds improved to 20-27 and 16-24 in the ACCAC (ninth place of 13), while the last-place Coyotes fell to 4-32 and 4-35.
MCC Jazz Band makes an appearance on Mesa Morning Live and plays a "Slow Jam" with Mesa Mayor John Giles. Slow Jam with Mayor John Giles
Marcy Snitzer, coordinator of alumni relations and communications at MCC, provides insight into training programs for alumni volunteers in this article by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
In 2012, more than 18,000 students failed to finish high school. That will cost Arizona $7.6 billion over their lifetimes, according to a report by the Arizona Mayor’s Education Roundtable.But if Arizonans could cut that dropout rate in half, it would generate more than $3.8 billion in economic benefits to the state, the report said.
Despite a one-two punch of declining enrollment and budget cuts, Mesa Community College has opted not to shutter its Red Mountain campus — for now.
Craig Nolan, a member of the Exercise Science faculty at Mesa Community College, writes about weight loss for InMaricopa publication.
Mesa's Economic Reports announces that Mesa Community College (MCC) launched a new website, The Arts at MCC (www.mesacc.edu/arts), to make it easy for members of the community learn about and attend events ranging from live music, dance, instrumental and theatrical performances to fine art shows featuring student, faculty and visiting artists, sculpture, digital, and painting works.
Article lists a few examples of what Arizona cities and towns are doing to help students in their community. Mesa Counts on College, a partnership between the City of Mesa, Mesa Community College and Mesa Public Schools that seeks to double the number of low-income youth completing postsecondary programs in Mesa over the next 10 years, is mentioned.Also mentioned a growing…
Avnet, Inc., a leading global technology distributor, announced today the winners of the 2016 Avnet Tech Games. In its 11th year, this STEM-based collegiate competition awarded 27 students with $1,000 scholarships each. Additionally, nine faculty advisors received $2,700 in honorariums for leading the winning teams to victory. Winners have been invited to attend a special tour of Avnet’…
MPS's Westwood High School newsletter contained information on MCC's Hoop of Learning Program:Attention Native American students! Would you like to earn college credit for free? Then apply to the Hoop of Learning Program at Mesa Community College and Scottsdale Community College for the summer. The deadline to apply to take summer classes at MCC is April 15, 2016.
Details of MCC production of 'Picnic' in Tempe Wrangler News. Page 19.
The Groves Report and The Breeze (Nearby News) features an article on the Cienega at MCC's Red Mountain Campus, with statements by Emily Dimson and Andy Holycross. Front cover and page 16
Service to Community and Country:Mexican-American Residents of Yavapai County in the 1930s and 1940s
Historians, in chronicling Arizona’s eventful past, have tended to overlook the significant contributions of Mexican-heritage citizens of Prescott in the early 20th century. One was pilot Lt. Gilbert Duran Orrantia, who grew up in Clarkdale. His story was retold in Francisco Villareal’s book, Arizona’s Hispanic Flyboys. He served in combat in North Africa. Later, when was sent stateside, he…
MCC Business Faculty, Kristine Ouzts, has partnered with the City of Mesa ThinkSpot to recruit students for the MCC Entrepreneur Certificate Program.
Kelley Stewart, MCC and ASU alumna, is the newest military advocate at the Pat Tillman Veterans Center.
Kent Burnham, adjunct professor at Mesa Community College and associate artistic director and director of education and outreach at Southwest Shakespeare Company, tells how the appeal of Shakespeare lies in its timelessness.
Video coverage of the Immersive Total Patient Management Exercise from Wednesday and Thursday at MCC's Downtown Center. MCC students created life-like scenarios to aid in the training of tomorrow's first responders and medical professionals. Channel 3 AZ Family coverage of "Real Life Emergency Scenarios for First Responder Trainees." and Channel 3 AZ Family coverage of "First Responders…
As part of a series celebrating National Poetry Month, poet Josh Rathkamp hosted a community writing workshop at the Art Intersection Gallery in downtown Gilbert, AZ on Thursday, April 7. During the workshop, participants learned how to “overcome writers block and use art and rituals as a form of creative inspiration.”
The Arizona Diamondbacks have hired their first female athletic trainer. She works at MCC.The team announced Tuesday Kelly Boyce has been hired as the minor league athletic trainer for the team's Rookie League Team.12 Newsandhttp://www.wrex.com/story/31604357/2016/03/30/north-boone-grad-becomes-diamondbacks-first-female-head-athletic-trainerandhttp://www.abc15.com/sports/sports-blogs-local/…
Mesa Community College Theatre and Film Arts Department will present the play “Picnic” at 7:30 p.m. April 22-23 and 28-29 and at 2 p.m. April 23 and 30 at the MCC Theatre on the south side of MCC’s campus, 1833 W. Southern Ave. in Mesa. Tickets, ranging from $9 to $12, are available by calling the MCC Box Office at 480-461-7172, online at mesacc.edu/arts or at the door.
In artist Beatriz Cortez's installations, cracks and crevices are a consistent clue to the fractured existence she has experienced in her life. As an immigrant artist, Cortez says that living in Arizona taught her about how difficult it is for immigrants to negotiate daily life in an environment often hostile to outsiders. “The community of students [at Mesa Community College in…
Bryce Bond, Mesa Community College, automotive performance faculty member, and Robert Bronstein, president of the Jaguar Club of Central Arizona (member of the Jaguar Clubs of North America), announced their collaboration in extending several internships to MCC automotive performance students beginning in April, according to a press release.