Tag: cmchome
-
-
‘Miracle Worker’ Sopris Theatre’s season opener
The Sopris Theatre Company, formerly known as Colorado Mountain College Theatre, opens its 2015-16 season Oct. 23 with “The Miracle Worker,” William Gibson’s beloved story based on Hellen Keller’s autobiography, “The Story of My Life.” Blind, deaf and mute since her formative years, young Keller, unable to communicate, is frustrated and violent. In desperation, her…
-
STEM teachers learn through hands-on workshops
Chevron Summer Science Institute at CMC boost teachers’ learning By helping teachers improve their ability to teach science, the Rifle, Colo., campus of Colorado Mountain College (CMC) is motivating area students to become more excited about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. Faced with a pressing need based on area students’ low scores in…
-
CMC disabilities service coordinator finalist for book award
Silverthorne author Karin Mitchell, the disabilities services coordinator at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge and Dillon, recently was named a finalist in an international award competition, for her first novel. On Sept. 1, Mitchell learned “Between Families” was a finalist in the Readers’ Favorite Book Reviews and Award Contest in the Young Adult – Social…
-
Fall enrollment increases at CMC
More students, taking more classes collegewide Kimberly Vega’s first good experience with Colorado Mountain College was through the faculty who taught her concurrent enrollment classes when she was a student at Roaring Fork High School in Carbondale. “The teachers had a big impact on me,” said Vega, who is now a second-year student focused on…
-
-
Jimmy Westlake: The Equinox and the Harvest Moon
Jimmy Westlake’s Celestial News column appears Tuesdays in the Steamboat Today and is reprinted below. The season of autumn officially arrives for the northern hemisphere this year at 1:20 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23, Colorado time. Our season of autumn begins the instant that the sun crosses the equator on its way south. Thanks to the…
-
Isaacson School director featured presenter at New Media Expo
Rob Martin, director of the Isaacson School for New Media at Colorado Mountain College, participated in the New Media Expo 2015, or NMX, held in Las Vegas in spring. As one of the largest new media events in the world, the expo featured more than 250 speakers, thousands of exhibitors and more than 100,000 participants…
-
Solar workshops planned for governments
CMC Rifle to host workshop on controlling costs with solar Libraries, schools, water plants and town halls in western Colorado are cutting their electrical energy costs by installing solar arrays. Two free workshops will explain how more governments and special districts can get started using solar to cut energy costs. The “Control Your Energy Costs…
-
