By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
The two top winners of the 2022 McGraw Hill Poster Contest at the Whatley Foyer in May received a free trip, ticket and lunch, 28 July, to the Texas Shakespeare Festival in Kilgore, Texas. Together with Honors Director Dr. Andrew Yox, Skylar Fondren, and Victor Diaz saw Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew in an afternoon production.
The NTCC Bookstore is excited to announce that is has a new and improved website!
The site, ntccbookstore.com, is a one-stop shop for students to purchase books, supplies, apparel and more. Don't wait until the semester starts...skip the line and order your books online today!
If you are using financial aid, you will be able to begin charging and placing orders with your Fall 2022 financial aid beginning August 8th.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
On Sunday, 7 August at 3 p.m., Samuel Anderson Pollan will feature works of Johann Sebastian Bach, and other classics of the literature for pipe organ at the First United Methodist Church of Pittsburg. The church is located at 109 College Street. The public is invited, and admission is free. Refreshments will be served after the recital.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Honors Northeast, the honors program of Northeast Texas Community College announces a call for poems and images that can accent or enliven our sense of the surroundings, people, the culture, and/or the history of Northeast Texas.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Since 2008, the honors program of NTCC has published a biannual newsletter. The recently released 2022 summer edition can be accessed by clicking here. The current newsletter provides a summary of student successes in the spring of 2022, including Aaliyah Avellaneda’s winning of one of the 100 Jack Kent Cooke scholarships in the nation.
Jordan Chapin and Raul Leija recently won scholarships at the Phi Theta Kappa Texas Honors Institute, which ended July 17. Students receiving the STAR scholarships from Phi Theta Kappa must have demonstrated academic and leadership promise. Phi Theta Kappa members from any community college in the state of Texas are eligible for the award.
Members of Alpha Mu Chi, Northeast Texas Community College’s five-star, award-winning chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, attended and participated in the Texas Honors Institute held at Texas Lutheran University July 15-17. The conference theme was “Level Up: Choose Your Own Adventure.”
Jordan Chapin recently won the Dr. Mary Hood STAR Scholarship. The $1,000 scholarship recognizes the student with the highest scoring application among those who applied for the summer 2022 Texas STAR scholarships. The scholarship is available to Phi Theta Kappa members throughout the state of Texas and is awarded on the last day of the Texas Honors Institute, which concluded on July 17.
The NTCC Ag Department announced Thursday that it has cancelled its upcoming farmers markets due to extreme heat and drought. Instead, they will continue to focus on keeping the animals healthy and cared for.
For more information about the Ag Department at NTCC, visit www.ntcc.edu/ag.
Pictured: Participants of this week's EagleGanza event meet with members of NTCC's Phi Theta Kappa chapter, Alpha Mu Chi.
