Tag: Steamboat Springs
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Faculty Stories: Tim Widmer
Faculty are the heart of Colorado Mountain College. We’re featuring them all week in eNews via articles on CMC’s faculty and adjuncts of the year. We’ve also started a video series profiling a handful of additional faculty stories. Our first video shares ski and snowboard business faculty Tim Widmer’s passion for teaching and for Steamboat…
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SnowSports Industries America and Colorado Mountain College Honor First Graduates of Joint Certification Program
Washington, DC (February 19, 2014) — The inaugural graduating class of the Colorado Mountain College (CMC) SIA Certification program, created in partnership with SnowSports Industries America (SIA), is the first to complete curriculum and assessments that qualify them to work in snow sports sales, marketing and retail. “The greatest part about this program is that…
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CMC Sky Club’s Crystal Observatory through the lens
The Crystal Observatory, built by the Colorado Mountain College Sky Club, will be open four more days. If you can’t catch the sculpture in person today, Feb.6 through Sunday, Feb. 9, you can now check out this unique ice-and-snow sculpture on video, thanks to CMC student Ben Saheb. The unique ice and snow sculpture recreates…
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CMC Sky Club opens Crystal Observatory Jan. 31
Same group that operates popular Screamboat to showcase celestial wonders Members of the public and students and are invited to gaze at winter’s stars while strolling through an outdoor structure that’s part ice-and-snow sculpture and part outdoor mandala. The Crystal Observatory, built by the Colorado Mountain College Sky Club, will be up and running by…
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Mountain Film Festival screens at CMC Steamboat tonight
The Reel Awards showcases four homegrown Colorado films Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat will host The Reel Awards tonight at the Allbright Family Auditorium, from 6:30-10 p.m. The event showcases films from Yampa Valley and national filmmakers and includes screenings of Way of Life from Bent and Broken, A Dreamy Place from Martin Clay, The…
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Green Building Tour showcases extreme energy efficient homes
Colorado Mountain College’s sustainability-minded communities offer our sustainability students incredible access to explore sustainability in many forms. On Saturday, Nov. 9, CMC students took part in the Yampa Valley Sustainability Council’s Green Building Tour. Article first published in the Steamboat Today. Ron Davies shows off the insert in his living room wall that shows spectators…
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Happy Halloween!
Screamboat 2013 A frightening cast of characters takes over the bus during Screamboat 2013. The haunted house event is created annually by CMC Steamboat Springs students & staff as a fundraiser for CMC’s Sky Club. Photo by John F. Russell, Steamboat Today. Click for a full gallery of Russell’s wonderful photos from the event. Happy…
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Business Plan Competition evaluates plans from 8 competitors
CMC in Steamboat Springs and Yampa Valley Score host business challenge This article was printed in the Steamboat Today. By Michael Schrantz. Steamboat Springs — By Tuesday afternoon, eight individuals or groups had gone before the judges in the 2013 Business Plan Competition hosted by Colorado Mountain College and Yampa Valley SCORE. The competition is…
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Yampa Valley Roots
CMC sustainability studies student Ben Saheb has been focusing his lenses on inspiring stories of sustainable food and community in Steamboat Springs and the Yampa Valley. Catch episode 2 of his ‘Yampa Valley Roots’ series, first published in Ben’s blog Life in Ski Town U.S.A., below. What do you get when you combine the CMC…
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CMC Sky Club heads to Alaska
CMC professor Jimmy Westlake and 22 CMC students, faculty, and staff — all members of the CMC SKY Club — are embarking on a five-day Alaska Northern Lights Expedition. The trip commences Thursday and includes stops in Anchorage, Denali National Park, Delta Junction, and Fairbanks. Westlake hopes the group of CMC astronomy buffs will be…