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Reach Your Peak summer camps provide low-cost learning fun
Middle, high schoolers invited to dream big GLENWOOD SPRINGS – Colorado Mountain College, in partnership with several other western Colorado higher education institutions, will offer low-cost summer camps to middle school students this July at the college’s Glenwood Center. Reach Your Peak Colorado, an organization supported by El Pomar Foundation’s Northwest Regional Council, creates opportunities…
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Jimmy Westlake: Scorpius livens up the summer sky
We love having a literate astronomer on staff at CMC. Professor Jimmy Westlake teaches astronomy and physics at Colorado Mountain College, Steamboat Springs. His “Celestial News” column appears weekly in the Steamboat Today newspaper. There aren’t many constellations that resemble the objects or creatures for which they are named. Scorpius, the Scorpion, is a delightful…
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College announces campus interim leadership
Rachel Pokrandt, currently the campus dean for Colorado Mountain College in Rifle, will provide interim campus leadership in Leadville and Chaffee County, effective Aug. 1, 2016. This summer she is transitioning into that interim position following the departure of the previous campus vice president, James Y. Taylor, who has accepted a position with Utah State…
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“Sip Happens” with RadioCMC
This article on Radio CMC’s podcast partnership with Cooper Wine and Spirits was first published in the Aspen Times. When Radio CMC approached Sharon and Kevin Brady about hosting a wine-and-spirits-themed podcast, the couple was excited by the opportunity. But first they had to ask: What’s a podcast? “I had no idea what a podcast…
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Yampatika Garden to Table Dinner
CMC Steamboat Restaurant Management program students’ final practical exam was a fun and engaging community event that raised funds for Yampatika, a Steamboat Springs non-profit that works to inspire environmental stewardship through education. The event offers students the opportunity to design a menu, source it with local food products, create the meal and serve it…
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Artist, Teacher, Muse
This article on former CMC art faculty Joan Norris was printed in the Vail Daily News. By Beth Potter Teacher and artist, artist and teacher …. Throughout her artistic career, Vail-based painter Joan Norris has hopscotched back and forth between roles — creating vibrant plein air paintings of aspen trees and mountains around her home,…
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