At one station, a perfectly groomed and uniformed senior from the Air Force Academy in Colorado explained his theory of how drones could be used to detect the status of unexploded ordnance by an airfield. At another, a very fluent young woman from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio pointed to a boldly colored poster that defended the theories of Gloria Anzaldua...
Honors Northeast, the Northeast Texas Community College Honors Program, is pleased to announce its Honors Students for the 2024-2025 school year. This includes five Presidential Scholars and twenty-three Honors Scholars. The NTCC Board of Trustees established Honors Northeast in the spring of 2007...
The trailer of the film of Honors Northeast and the NTCC Webb Society on oil and politics is now in the public domain. It features several honors students in key roles, the musical artistry of Kenny Goodson of Hughes Springs, and the picture editing of a first-year honors student from Mount Pleasant, Yahir Garcia...
On 11 October, six scholars of Honors Northeast presented work at the annual fall meeting of the Walter Prescott Webb Society at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio. The “Webb” is the collegiate auxiliary of the Texas State Historical Association. Yahir Garcia, Andrew Perez, Ariana Tagg, Isabel Tresidder, Rebeca Martinez, and Stephanie Hernandez each presented either a synopsis of their current scholarly work, or comments on their role in this year’s honors film relating to oil and Texas politics...
For the 34th time, thanks to honors donors such as Drs. Jim and Paula Archer, NTCC honors students were able to take a free, day-trip to a big city. Fourteen students and two NTCC staff drivers left campus...
NTCC’s Agriculture Club and Program again proved this past 14 September that their expertise with food remains an important collegiate asset. They cannot only produce fresh foods in sustainable, scientific ways, but prepare them in the form of a delectable, regionally themed dinner. The NTCC honors program, in turn, enjoyed its eighteenth fall-semester get-together in as many years, bringing 73 parents...
Skylar Hodson, the recent winner of the most prestigious award of Phi Theta Kappa in Texas, the Dr. Mary Hood Award, has also become the fourth winner of the Russell-Mowery Perpetual Honors Scholarship. This annual $500 award goes to an honors student who has made significant contributions to Northeast Texas culture and life. Hodson has played a major role in the two of NTCC’s prize winning film efforts, and is the director of this year’s film on oil politics in Texas...
In her first year as an honors student at NTCC, Alison Majors was promoted to Presidential Scholar, and composed a major essay on minorities in Texas which she presented at the Mount Pleasant Public Library, the meeting of the Walter Webb Society in College Station, and the Great Plains Honors Council in Stillwater. She is a recent winner, nationally, of the Leaders of Promise award conferred by Phi Theta Kappa, and Coca Cola...
For the seventeenth-straight year in a row, Cypress Bank has presented a high-end laptop for the use of Northeast Texas Community College honors students. This year’s Cypress Bank Scholar is Yahir Garcia...
