Tag: Students
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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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Mother and daughter walk together at graduation
By Carrie Click. Rosa Meraz, Daniela Santana earn side-by-side associate degrees at Spring Valley When Rosa Meraz arrived in Colorado from Mexico 20 years ago, she couldn’t speak English. Not a word. “I couldn’t even say ‘hi’ or ‘bye,’” she said, laughing, with just the slightest accent. “I remember wanting to cry. I couldn’t understand…
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Community Agriculture Alliance: Why we need to talk about food waste
CMC Steamboat Spring’s student Mackenzie Dormer’s column on the ecological, economic and social impacts of food waste ran in the April 22, 2016 Community Agriculture Column of the Steamboat Pilot. Dormer organizes the Steamboat Spring’s campus’ Food Recovery Network chapter and organizes student volunteers and food recoveries. We all eat. Unfortunately, we all throw away…
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Outdoor Women Excel in Leadville
This article was first published the CMC Leadville’s blog, Education at Elevation. By Lauren Swanson, Social Media Coordinator. Each semester, outdoor students at Colorado Mountain College in Leadville look forward to their experiential based outdoor orientation classes. It is in these courses that classrooms are transformed into wilderness experiences, and hand-on learning is amplified. Those…
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1000 Words: Brighter Futures
On Tuesday, April 5, 2016, the Summit School District held its 26th annual High School Scholarship Night. Nearly $370,000 in scholarships were awarded to 93 different students over the course of the evening. CMC Summit Campus Vice President Dave Askeland, CMC Regional Development Officer Candy Elkind and CMC Foundation Grant & Scholarship Coordinator Kathy Desportes…
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Heading up and out to college with Upward Bound
Colorado Mountain College reaches out to west Garfield County high school students. By Carrie Click “I have friends who have no clue about college,” said Coal Ridge High School senior Sierra Jackson. “They have no idea about what to expect or where to go for information. They don’t know about money for college or scholarships.…
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CMC student Karina Rivas earns scholarship
Karina Rivas, a Basalt High School graduate and current CMC student in Advanced ESL classes, recently was awarded a full-tuition scholarship at the University of Phoenix. The following story was originally published in the March 31 edition of the Aspen Times. After escaping El Salvador violence, recent immigrant to Basalt earns scholarship. By Scott Condon…
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Grooming around the world
Ski area operations alum Karen Gilliot runs snowcats in both hemispheres. By Carrie Click. While Karen Bruce Gilliot was growing up in Belle Vernon, a little borough outside Pittsburgh, she skied at Seven Springs. It’s a Pennsylvania ski area that tops out at just less than 3,000 feet, and is about an hour drive from…
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Trained to save local lives, property
Firefighters, EMTs hired after completing CMC programs The first responder to the next fire or medical emergency in Lake or Chaffee counties will likely be a graduate of Colorado Mountain College. Since 2012, many area firefighters and emergency medical technicians have taken classes or graduated locally from either the college’s fire science technology or emergency…
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Paying it forward, thanks to education
Jennifer Penn endured hardships, now learning to help others overcome theirs By Carrie Click LEADVILLE – Jennifer Penn is a Denver native, but a couple of years ago she wanted to be anywhere but her hometown. “I needed to reinvent myself,” said the 42-year-old, who was ending an unsuccessful 17-year marriage and living in a…