SPSCC Partners
with Thurston County Jail to provide GED classes
The Thurston County Jail program at South
Puget Sound Community College provides inmates at
the Thurston County Correctional Facility a free opportunity to
earn their General Education Development (GED) certificate through SPSCC
while incarcerated. The program began in 1996, and for the last ten years
has had 2,138 registered students with 292 graduates earning their GED.
Thurston Talk, August 14, 2014
Peninsula
College, CWU combo to offer dual admissions in fall
Starting this fall, a new collaboration between Peninsula College
and Central Washington University offers Olympic Peninsula residents
another opportunity to complete a baccalaureate degree.
Sequim Gazette, August 13, 2014
Peninsula
College helps Sequim veteran get a fresh start
Sequim resident Justin VanBuskirk, who graduated from Peninsula College
this June, has some words of advice for others: “Don’t give up because of
your position in life!” He didn’t and now he is well on his way to
finding the life and career he wants, which includes pursuing an
engineering degree at Western Washington University.
Sequim Gazette, August 12, 2014
Looking up and
looking ahead, Bates Technical College will offer classes on drones
Landon Johnson has seen the future, and there will be fewer cashiers in it,
but more unmanned aerial vehicles and block-long vending machines.
... That’s where Johnson comes in. He’s a teacher in the Bates Technical College industrial
electronics and robotics technician program.
The News Tribune, August 12, 2014
Big Bend brings
STEM learning to high school students
Big Bend Community
College is continuing efforts to get more kids interested
in STEM learning. The college has been using its STEM Summer Institute
to introduce Basin high school students to engineering and other related
subjects - part of their overall initiative to prepare students to
eventually enter STEM-related fields.
Columbia Basin Herald, August 12, 2014
P.C. starts
honors program this fall
A new Honors Program starts this fall at Peninsula College. Applications for
admission are now being accepted. The Honors Program is designed to
engage highly motivated students in a unique two-year cohort-based learning
process that encourages them to make connections between their classes,
develop critical thinking skills, identify intellectual interests and
develop those interests into a culminating “capstone” experience.
Sequim Gazette, August 12, 2014
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