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Middle schoolers learn technology at CMC
Students aged 11 to 14 participated in Colorado Mountain College’s Summer Technology Institute in Breckenridge from June 22 to June 26. The kids learned about digital photography, video, graphic design and building websites, and they also spent time outside using what they learned. The middle schoolers learned about the creative and business sides of…
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CMC, CSU form partnership to support TRIO students
Student Support Services provide pathway to success A partnership between Colorado Mountain College and Colorado State University is now allowing smoother-than-ever transitions for some of the CMC students transferring to CSU. Recently representatives from Colorado Mountain College and a number of Colorado community colleges signed a memorandum of understanding with Colorado State that creates a…
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Jimmy Westlake: Yampa River Star Party this Saturday
This coming Saturday evening, I will be conducting a summer stargazing event out at the Yampa River State Park campground, three miles west of Hayden on U.S. Highway 40, beginning at 9 p.m. This will be my second “Yampa River Star Party” event. and I am very excited about it! Last summer, we had a…
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High school students monitor stream health for the Forest Service
Local internship offers local high school students opportunities to learn about natural resource management careers and earn CMC credit This article was printed in the Vail Daily. AVON — Thanks to ongoing support from the National Forest Foundation and Vail Resorts’ Ski Conservation Fund, 12 high school students will participate in the fourth summer of…
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CMC Board of Trustees meets at Spring Valley, approves budget
The Colorado Mountain College Board of Trustees met at the college’s campus in Spring Valley near Glenwood Springs Thursday, June 18, where it approved a $61 million operating budget for the 2015-16 academic year. This operating budget makes a few strategic adjustments to the 2014-15 budget, specifically it retires the overhead expenses originally set aside…
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Author Walter Isaacson visits CMC in Edwards on Monday
EDWARDS — Walter Isaacson, best-selling author and former managing editor of Time magazine, will provide an engaging conversation on the “Lessons of Innovators” at Colorado Mountain College in Edwards on Monday. Isaacson joins CMC as part of The Browning Event signature speakers, which is part of the Women in Philanthropy Distinguished Lecture Series. An expert…
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Inside the Mountain: An Interview with Outdoor Education professor Bruce Kime
Radio CMCs “Inside the Mountain” explores life at Colorado Mountain College through the eyes of its students, faculty, and staff. Host Lucas Turner interviewed recently retired Outdoor Education faculty Bruce Kime about his travels as head of Outdoor Education at CMC Spring Valley. If you want to read more about Bruce in addition to listening…
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Jimmy Westlake: Venus and Jupiter meet for spectacular conjunction
CMC astronomy and physics professor Jimmy Westlake’s “Celestial News” column appears weekly in the Steamboat Today newspaper. Anytime the night sky’s two brightest planets pass close to each other, it is a spectacular event worth watching. Venus, our dazzling “Evening Star,” has been flirting with Jupiter, the king of the planets, for several weeks now.…
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CMC student elected to national Amnesty International board
This article appeared in the Pilot and Today. By Teresa Ristow. Steamboat Springs — A Colorado Mountain College student is now the youngest member of Amnesty International USA’s Board of Directors. Molly Goldberg, 27, earned a place on the worldwide organization’s board election ballot via a campaign in which she collected 100 signatures of dues-paying…