May 31, 2017 | Intercom, Student News
TRAVERSE CITY — NMC’s choral ensemble, Canticum Novum, and the NMC Concert Band will get your summer off to a toe-tapping start with a series of three concerts each.
Canticum Novum presents choral music featuring masters old and new: Mozart, Brahms, Fauré, Lauridsen, Whitacre, Paulus, and Swingle. The varied cultural program includes the music of Germany, Latvia, India, Russia, France, and American spirituals and hymn tunes. Jeffrey Cobb directs. Suggested donations: $15 for adults, $10 for students and seniors taken at the door. Donations will offset the costs of the choir’s trip to Carnegie Hall in New York City.
- June 9: 7:30 p.m., First Congregational Church, Traverse City
- June 10: 7 p.m., St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Beulah
- June 30, 7:30 p.m., Immaculate Conception Church, Traverse City
NMC Summer Concert Band presents the following free concerts featuring marches and highlights from your favorite musicals. Pat Brumbaugh directs.
- June 21, 7:30 p.m., Traverse City Senior Center
- June 24, 7:30 p.m., Milliken Auditorium – with Northport Community Band
- July 4, 6 p.m., Northport Marina, Northport – with the Northport Community Band
Release date: June 1, 2017
For more information:
Jeffrey Cobb
NMC Director of Music Programs
jecobb@nmc.edu
(231) 995-1338
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May 30, 2017 | Intercom
Hit Your Stride Step Challenge –
Calling all NMC Employees!
1 – Who is Eligible?
All NMC Employees. Those who have access to Blue Cross Health & Wellness will participate through the Blue Cross website and all others will report manually through a shared Google document.
2 – Challenge Details
Your team will compete against others to accumulate the highest number of steps over the 5 weeks of the challenge.
3 – Team Size
Minimum of 1 person, and a Maximum of 3 people
4 – Incentive
- The team with the overall highest number of steps (averaged between number of team members) will each receive a $100 Visa Gift Card.
- Every individual that meets an average of 4,000 steps per day (148,000 steps over the 37 days) will have a chance to win a Fitbit Alta.
5 – How do I Register?
- If you elect NMC Blue Cross Coverage you will register through the Blue Cross Health & Wellness Site. You will also track your steps through this site and instructions are included on how to sync your personal device to the website for automatic tracking. Access the instructions here.
- If you do not have NMC Blue Cross Coverage you will register with Hollie DeWalt in HR and report your steps through a shared Google doc. Once registration opens on June 1, email Hollie at hdewalt@nmc.edu.
6 – How often do I need to report my steps?
If you are not using one of the automatic tracking methods, please report your total steps by the Friday of each week. The top teams and individuals will be posted in the Intercom each week.
7 – Challenge Dates/Deadlines
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Registration Opens
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June 1, 2017
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Registration Closes
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June 16, 2017
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Challenge Start Date
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June 8, 2017
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Challenge End Date
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July 14, 2017
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Last Date to Enter Data
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July 21, 2017
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8 – Visit the NMC Wellness Site for more information.
Do you need assistance with registration for Hit Your Stride?
Chris Barr will be available on June 5, 2017 to help you enroll or answer your questions — stop by and see him:
- University Center 106- 9–10:30 a.m.
- West Hall Conference Room- 12:30–2 p.m.
- Great Lakes Campus Room 102- 2:30–3:30 p.m.
How Do I Redeem My $50 Gift Card?
Simply log into bcbsm.com, choose the Health & Wellness Tab in the blue bar at the top of the page, and finally choose Rewards in the gray bar. If you have completed both the online health assessment and submitted the physician screening form you will click on Redeem Now. If it still says Start Earning, then both forms have not been registered as complete. If you believe this is an error- make sure your doctor sent the form and then follow up with Hollie DeWalt or Chris Barr for assistance.
May 30, 2017 | Intercom
Are you looking for career opportunities? Find them here! jobs.nmc.edu. Current openings include:
Position Vacancies
- Engineering Instructor
- Physics Adjunct Faculty
- Clinical Nursing Adjunct Faculty
- Manufacturing/Engineering Adjunct Faculty
Supplemental Employment
- Banquet Server – Hagerty Center
May 30, 2017 | Intercom
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
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May 24, 2017 | Intercom, Student News
May 24, 2017
Brandon Krohn of Bad Axe was one of eight students to take part in unmanned aerial systems in agriculture training at NMC’s facility in Yuba.Future farmers from around the state converged in Traverse City this month for the culmination of a first-of-its-kind training in unmanned aerial systems applications for agriculture.
Eight students co-enrolled in Michigan State University agriculture certificate programs and partner community colleges participated in a two-week training taught by NMC UAS instructors. Using four different drones, they conducted flights over a range of crops, collected aerial imagery and integrated sensor data, and then analyzed it for potential applications in the agriculture industry
It was the finale of an innovative, semester-long course that met in Muskegon, Traverse City and online and offered students elective MSU credit, remote pilot certification from the FAA, and a certificate in UAS in agriculture.
Currently, regulations limit most of the applications to imagery. Drones can’t yet be used to spray or treat crops. But the students, who came from farms that raised everything from dairy and beef cattle to row crops like corn and wheat to specialty crops like asparagus and Christmas trees, said they learned plenty to take home.
“It’ll be useful for counting trees, seeing which ones are ready for harvest,” said Micah Woller of Montague, who works on a Christmas tree farm in winter.
Nathan Beyerlein of Frankenmuth works for Star of the West Milling Co. in addition to his family’s corn, sugar beet and cucumber farm. He foresees using aerial imaging as a scouting tool, using imaging data to make traditional crop protection — on-the-ground spraying and fertilizing — more effective.
“For crop health, and getting a visual of the whole field, being able to pinpoint where a disease is, or water damage,” Beyerlein said.
Brian Matchett, coordinator of NMC’s plant science and viticulture programs, which partners with MSU’s Institute of Agriculture Technology, said he foresees huge demand for the training. This first course was only open to students enrolled in two-year MSU partner schools including NMC, Delta College, Muskegon Community College and Southwest Michigan Community College.
“We’re just scratching the surface,” Matchett said.
The course was taught in three parts: A five-day UAS build and flight training course in January at Muskegon Community College, a 12-week online training in remote piloting, and the two-week hands-on training in Traverse City earlier this month, at sites including apple and cherry orchards, vineyards, and hops, corn, soybeans and wheat fields.
Visit nmc.edu/uas for more information.
