Since the age of three, Jessica Novakovich ’17 wanted to be a ballerina. At her insistence, her mother took her to a “mommy-and-me” ballet class as a preschooler. She was hooked. “It was always my one-track mind of wanting to…
Using Apple iPads and digital playgrounds, sixth to eighth grade students will soon be upping their digital game this summer. Montgomery College, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) and Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation (MCEDC) are working together to bring coding…
“Barrier” is a word that nobody wants to hear, but it’s a harsh reality to many students at Montgomery College. This is why “Identity,” the nonprofit that serves all of Montgomery County’s Latino youth, approached MC with the idea of…
The National Archives Museum is among the most visited sites in the nation’s capital. On one spring evening, however, a group of Montgomery College students did their best to keep attendees from leaving one of the rooms in the Boeing…
The recent terrorist attacks targeting religious groups—from Pittsburgh to New Zealand to Sri Lanka—made international headlines spurring people all over the world to come together to unite against hate. That’s precisely what happened at the third annual Interfaith Conversation held…
Wendy Mejia Aguilar is chasing down a dream her mom was forced to leave behind six years ago in El Salvador. The violence in the family’s native country was inching closer each day, the life she had worked so hard…
Move over Monty, there’s a new raptor in town--and it hasn’t eaten in about 65 million years. Stan the T. rex, a life-size replica of an actual Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found in South Dakota in 1987, has taken up residence…
Fostering educational innovation and cultural exchange across 6,000 miles, MC representatives participated in a Montgomery County Sister Cities delegation visit to Ethiopia earlier this year. Led by Councilmember Craig Rice, the delegation visited Gondar, Ethiopia, and the University of Gondar.…
With an infectious smile and bundles of energy, Reyhan James is nailing the part: people person, student employee, aspiring actor. A theatre arts major in his second semester at Montgomery College, James is one of 49 exceptional student employees of…
Here are some alarming statistics, according to Forbes: one-third of Americans do not pay their bills on time. Thirty-three percent do not have any money saved for retirement. Thirty eight percent of American households have severe credit card debt. And…