Author: coloradomountaincollege
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CMC student driving force behind Summit County’s Earth Hour
Global lights-out initiative set locally for 8:30-9:30 p.m. This article appeared in today’s Summit Daily News. By Janice Kurbjan. The world’s largest voluntary action for the environment happens Saturday, when the lights go out around the world for one hour. In Summit County, it’s set for 8:30-9:30 p.m. The initiative began in Sydney, Australia, when…
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Art and Resistance in Guatemala
Chichicastenango, Guatemala This article is one of a series of travel entries from CMC Steamboat student Bailey Peth’s blog, and recounts one day of her recent trip to Guatemala. Bailey traveled to the Central American country as part of CMC’s study abroad program Art and Resistance in Guatemala. The program filled up in 2012; find…
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CMC Leadville’s Rail Jam featured in The Denver Post
Last weekend’s Rail Jam event at CMC in Leadville was featured yesterday in Denver Post writer Jason Blevin’s regular column “Outdoor Extremes.” The entire event is put on by Colorado Mountain College’s ski area operations program students, 95 percent of whom land jobs at ski areas after graduation. Colorado Mountain College’s ski area operations program…
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Multimedia teaser to be offered at CMC Edwards
Want to learn how to create your own music and movies? Learn to edit and organize your photos like a pro? CMC graphic design student Jordan Callier doubles as a CMC Edwards instructor early in April in order to share the secrets and shortcuts to iLife’11, the latest version of Apple’s powerful, user-friendly multimedia software…
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My Life…
This past semester, Colorado Mountain College hired student Maria Salinas Gaytan to write about life at CMC from a Latino student’s perspective. One of Maria’s first posts describes the financial and cultural barriers many Latino students face in their attempts to earn a college degree. You can read more of Maria’s words on her blog,…
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Mammoths, mastodons and sloths — in Breckenridge tonight
Two CMC faculty share their experiences from the Snowmass Mastodon Discovery Site tonight This article was first published in the Summit Daily News. By Kathryn Corazzelli. It sounds a little odd, but it served as a rite of passage, and celebration, for the folks working on the Snowmass Mastodon Discovery Site last summer, where the…
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Art and Resistance in Guatemala
Guatemala, Chontala This article is one of a series of travel entries from CMC Steamboat student Bailey Peth’s blog, and recounts one day of her recent trip to Guatemala. Bailey traveled to the Central American country as part of CMC’s study abroad program Art and Resistance in Guatemala. The program filled up in 2012; find out…
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Jackson Hole with the CMC Backcountry Club
This article was first published in Steamboat Livin’, the blog of CMC student Dustin Eldridge. As a member of CMC Alpine’s Backcountry Club, I get first dibs on the annual Club trip to Jackson Hole. Each year the itinerary is a little different, but this year the trip cost only $300 dollars and included a…
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Helping Hands: Event to highlight poverty around the world, in Summit
Poverty looks different in Summit than the rest of the country This article was first published in the Summit Daily News. By Kathryn Corazzelli. What poverty around the world look like? Attendees at a free event later this month will find out. At the Hunger Banquet, folks will draw a ticket assigned with a level…
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CMC’s Alton Scales on the drums at fundraiser tonight
This article was first published in the Summit Daily News. By Aaron Bible. As part of tonight’s Casino Royale fundraiser for the Breckenridge Music Festival, attendees will be treated to the soothing sounds of local jazz ensemble the Trading Fours Jazz Band, led by Breckenridge’s Alton Scales. “What we play is traditional jazz with a…