NTCC is pleased to announce that theater classes will be offered again starting this fall! Courses offered include: Theater Appreciation (DRAM-1310), Stagecraft I (DRAM-1330) and Acting I (DRAM-1351). Five $500 scholarships are available for students enrolled in theater classes.
Want a great gift for Mother's Day? Consider giving your favorite Moms (or yourself) a spot in the upcoming Floral Design class presented by NTCC Agriculture and Continuing Education! The class will teach the art of floral design and will cover door wreaths, table pieces and outdoor arranging. Participants will take home their own hand-crafted floral project that is ready for display in their home or outdoor living space.
Northeast Texas Community College Baseball hit the road Sunday to take on TJC in Tyler and earned a 12-4 win in the first game of the day before falling to TJC 9-6 in game two.
Aaron Shelby and the Carroll Shelby Foundation recently presented the Northeast Texas Community College Foundation with checks totaling $80,000 to support NTCC’s Shelby Automotive Technology program. One gift for $50,000 will provide scholarships for students in the Shelby program and $30,000 will be used toward the Shelby Restoration Center being built at NTCC.
Farm based education is seeing a resurgence as a unique experience for families to learn more about where their food comes from. This is especially true for NTCC Sustainable Market Farm. McCracken first learned of the “farm based education” options at a farm conference in 2019 and became a member of the national organization: Farm Based Education Network https://www.farmbasededucation.org/ to share resources and learn how to incorporate experience based content into the college offerings.
Northeast Texas Community College Athletic Teams will host FREE camps for area youth in the upcoming weeks. During the camps you will get to meet the Eagle players and coaches and receive instruction in that sport. The camps will be after NTCC home games so you will get a chance to watch the athletes in action and then attend camp post game.
Northeast Texas Community College’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, Alpha Mu Chi, attended the Texas Regional Convention in Frisco on March 10-12 and returned with several awards. In addition, the chapter successfully campaigned for the Texas Region President position. The elected representative, Jordan Chapin, will take part in leadership training, public speaking opportunities, and travel throughout the state.
In the last century, screen compositions by John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, and others have become the most highly recognized forms of orchestral music. Williams’ compositions for Star Wars, E.T, Jaws and other films have reached an estimated billions of hearers. Moreover music can vitalize a film in such a way as to stir massive degrees of engagement. One thinks of the screeching violins in the shower-murder scene of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, or the terrifying two-note motive of the shark in Jaws.
