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  • Colorado Mountain College RagNerds

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    CMC’ers help raise funds for Special Olympics Colorado Nearly two dozen Colorado Mountain College employees, family members and students came together from throughout the college’s numerous campuses to take part in the 194-mile, Copper Mountain to Snowmass, Ragnar Relay Colorado over the weekend to raise funds for Special Olympics Colorado.

  • A college program for workforce training

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    CMC in Rifle offers instruction for staying safe on the job College is not just a place where newly graduated high school seniors go to earn an academic degree. Sometimes, college can offer educational opportunities to working men and women who can immediately apply that knowledge at the job site. And perhaps nowhere is that…

  • TRIO programs celebrate five decades of student success

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    Edwards CMC students still benefit from War on Poverty education bill Earlier this spring, Enews ran a short series of articles profiling students who have benefited from TRIO’s Upward Bound and Student Support Services programs at different Colorado Mountain College locations. This final profile features twins Cindy and Gemma Mendoza and Nereyda Blanco, three students…

  • CMC partners with Glenwood Adventure Park to create info panels

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    The view from the deck at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park has always been spectacular. Now, guests can learn about the geology of the area while they admire its natural wonders. A series of geologic panels, commissioned by Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park owners Steve and Jeannie Beckley, were installed at the park’s Lookout Grille deck at…

  • Future of education debated at Ideas Festival

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    Community colleges key to respond to changing demographics, workforce demand [ASPEN] – Despite dire stories that a college degree is becoming too expensive, a panel of experts in higher education at the Aspen Ideas Festival on July 1 agreed that postsecondary degrees and certificates will be essential to prepare the workforce of the future, even…

  • Summer Technology Institute at Colorado Mountain College

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    Summer tech programs for middle-schoolers sold out; still space in new high school engineering class What does wading through the Blue River while hunched over holding a waterproof camera have to do with computer technology? Plenty, if you’re Payton Weinman. Weinman, 13, attended last year’s Summer Technology Institute at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge. The…

  • CMC awards Alpine Bank scholarship to west Garfield County students

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    This year’s Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholarship program is helping 11 students from Western Slope high schools attend Colorado Mountain College. Alpine Bank has been awarding scholarships to qualified students since the program began in 1996 and, to date, has financed more than 170 scholarships. ENews has been running a series of profiles on these hopeful,…

  • Learning English propels high school graduates to CMC

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    Aspen, Basalt grads on their way to college, thanks to Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholarships El Salvador and the Dominican Republic are thousands of miles away in distance and culture from the Roaring Fork Valley. For two young men, their journeys from being non-English-speaking immigrants to high school graduates, and their continuation to Colorado Mountain College…

  • CMC awards Alpine Bank scholarship to Carbondale and Glenwood Springs students

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    This year’s Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholarship program is helping 11 students from Western Slope high schools attend Colorado Mountain College. Alpine Bank has been awarding scholarships to qualified students since the program began in 1996 and, to date, has financed more than 170 scholarships. ENews has been running a series of profiles on these hopeful,…

  • College now possible for Steamboat High School graduate

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    Student Celeste Portillo will attend CMC on Alpine Bank Latino/Hispanic Scholarship Celeste Portillo doesn’t yet quite know what direction she wants to go academically when she attends Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs this coming fall. But she is determined about one thing. “I might not know exactly how to answer the question, ‘What do…