Tag: Summit Campus
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Leadership Summit graduates 16 community leaders
By Carrie Click. Leadership Summit, Summit County’s community leadership program, has graduated 16 community leaders from its 10th year. Sessions were held one day per month, from Sept. 25, 2014, through May 14, 2015. Leadership Summit is a nine-month, highly interactive leadership enrichment program that seeks to develop and enhance the individual leadership abilities of…
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CMC awards Alpine Bank scholarship to local student
Hard work, leadership result in success, gratitude When Cinthia Valderrama saw a hungry man come into La Perla, the restaurant where she worked while attending Summit High School, she didn’t turn him away. Seeing that the man had only enough money to buy one taco, she reached into her own pocket and paid for his…
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CMC culinary program featured in Sizzle magazine
Sizzle magazine’s Winter 2013 issue sports a feature highlighting the benefits of working as a chef in resort towns. Colorado Mountain College’s Culinary Institute/Apprenticeship program and graduate chef Steve Nguyen are included. Click for full article at Sizzle’s site, or read below! Resorts Appeal to Outdoor Lovers If you like outdoor activities and don’t mind…
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Interns help grow Summit County community garden program
This article first appeared in the Summit Daily News. Colorado Mountain College interns are helping the High Country Conservation Center provide freshly grown goods in Summit County. Local gardeners said it can be daunting to attempt to grow vegetables in the High Country, but it’s far from impossible. A wide variety of seeds are currently…
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‘The Tempest’ captures a perfect storm live in HD
Meteropolitan Opera simulcast series continues Nov. 10 at CMC-Breckenridge A simulcast HD transmission of the New York Metropolitan Opera’s production of “The Tempest,” staged by visionary director Robert Lepage, will begin at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, in the Eileen & Paul Finkel Auditorium at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge. Scored by Britain’s preeminent contemporary…
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Metropolitan Opera broadcasts return to CMC Breckenridge
The first show is Donizetti’s ‘The Elixir of Love’ This article first appeared in the Summit Daily News. By Elmer W. Koneman Opera season has arrived in Summit County, as the National Repertory Orchestra and Colorado Mountain College join to bring the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcasts to the High Country starting Saturday, Oct.…
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College students gain leadership skills through new work program
This article was first published in the Summit County Business Journal. By Kim Marquis. Students in a new Colorado Mountain College internship program not only gained work experience this summer but also learned how to get things done independently on the job. Sustainability major Ashlee Andrews, a junior, earned three credits and a $500 scholarship…
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Learning through experience
New CMC program is more than an internship This story first appeared in the Summit Daily News. By Kathryn Turner. A new program at Colorado Mountain College in Summit County doesn’t just benefit the students, but the local community. Through CMC’s new Service Learning course, students work with a local nonprofit in what amounts to…
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Summit County students find angels to support learning
CMC scholarship campaign celebrates halfway mark [BRECKENRIDGE] More local students than ever are finding a college education within reach, thanks to the generosity of Summit County donors. A $1 million scholarship campaign at Colorado Mountain College has just passed the halfway mark, thanks to new commitments from High Country Healthcare, Genia and Gary Gallagher, and…