Tag: Programs
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Kinetic type music video
CMC Graphic Design student Jordan Callier shares his final for CMC’s Motion Graphics class below. This post was was originally published in Jordan’s blog, The Art of Visual Communication, which shares great views of classes and assignments CMC’s Graphic Design program. I just completed my final for my Motion Graphics class. Our assignment was to…
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High Altitude Summer Gardening
Start that garden growing! Todd Rymer, Director of CMC’s Culinary Institute in Edwards, shared some great high-altitude gardening tips recently on TV8Vail. For those interested in learning more about sustainable food and agriculture, the college’s degree and certificate programs in sustainable cuisine are worth further exploration. An orientation session for the program takes place on…
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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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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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Isaacson School for New Media at CMC
A press conference to announce Colorado Mountain College’s new Isaacson School for New Media is being hosted at our Aspen campus today at 11:00 a.m. You can read the press release below. To learn more about the program, go to isaacsonschool.org. [ASPEN, Colo.] – Colorado Mountain College announced today the formation of the Isaacson School…
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Fish Eye Lens
CMC grad lands job with fly fishing magazine This article first appeared in the Glenwood Post Independent. By Collin Szewczyk. It’s said that if you can make a career out of doing what you truly love, you’ll never work a day in your life. That being said, local photographer and fisherman Copi Vojta hasn’t spent…
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Student combines CMC studies with pro snowboard career
Jake Black finds resonance with CMC’s Sustainability Studies degree Jake Black was born and raised in Summit County, making him that rarest of things: a true Local. And true to the culture of his ski town home, his parents had him and his two brothers on skis as soon as they were walking. It was…
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Retired fire truck stays in the valley
Colorado Mountain College receives gift of pumper truck EDWARDS, Colorado — Old fire trucks rarely retire — usually, they’re passed down from bigger, more affluent departments to smaller ones, eventually ending up as parts for other trucks. But an Eagle River Fire Protection District pumper truck has earned the mechanical equivalent of a long retirement…
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Local paramedic program gaining national attention
Specially trained paramedics visit patients at their homes This article first published in the Eagle Valley Enterprise. By Derek Franz. EAGLE, Colorado — Since it officially launched June 1, Western Eagle County Ambulance District’s Community Paramedics program has received national attention. The Eagle Valley Enterprise ran a story on the futuristic program in July 2010,…
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CMC hosts introductory Fireside Chat about personal care attendant training
Colorado Mountain College is offering a 13-week course to certify professional caregivers This article was first published in the Vail Daily. By Randy Wyrick. June Waters looked across a crowd of hundreds of professional caregivers and said something that hit them right between the eyes. “You’ll spend more time caring for you mother than your…