NMC students launch food drive to support fellow students in need

Oct 15, 2018 | Intercom, Student News

TRAVERSE CITY — Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) Business students are partnering with the Northwest Food Coalition (NWFC) for the sixth annual Food for Thought food drive to help reduce food insecurity in the Grand Traverse region.

New this year, the class will aim to fill four pantries, in time for the holiday season, focused on helping students and their families. A 2016 NWFC survey revealed more than 2,000 children in the region are food insecure, which can be a barrier to learning.

The food pantries include:

• TLD Prayer Fyre
• Step Up Northern Michigan
• TBAISD Spirit Pantry
• NMC’s Food Pantry

Community members can donate non-perishable food and personal hygiene items from October 19 to November 19 at red collection bins in the following NMC buildings:

• Tanis
• Osterlin Library
• University Center
• Hagerty Conference Center
• Parsons-Stulen

Tom’s Food Markets will accept donations from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., October 28 at the East Bay, West Bay and Fourteenth Street locations. The public is also invited to bring donations to the S. T. E. M. Exploration Day at NMC’s Parsons-Stulen Building from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. November 10. Participants will be able experience LEGO robotics, drones, virtual reality and more family-friendly activities.

The community can make a financial donation to help support the pantries at any of the events or with the NMC Foundation.

This food drive is supported by generous donations from local businesses. One example of this is Max’s Appliance’s donation of a refrigerator to the NMC Food Pantry so that the students can receive fresh foods. Other local businesses are donating items for raffle prizes as well as hosting their own food drives. If you would like to partner with this project please use the contact information below.

The Food For Thought Food drive is a semester-long experiential learning project for professional communications students. For updates go to the NMC Food for Thought facebook page.

Release date: October 15, 2018

For more information:

Blake Bandrowski
Marketing Director
bandro3@mail.nmc.edu
(231) 633-8813

Kristy McDonald
NMC Instructor
kmcdonald@nmc.edu
(231) 995-1059

Scholarship Success Workshop November 13

Oct 13, 2018 | Intercom, Student News

Scholarship Success Workshop November 13 in the University Center Room 204 at 5:30 p.m.

Grand Valley State University in Traverse City has partnered with the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation to bring you a one-hour workshop on local scholarships available to you. This workshop is appropriate for all students attending or soon to be attending college. Learn Tips and Tricks on how to write a winning essay and what the committees are looking for. Open to the public.

This event is free to attend. Please RSVP at gvsu.edu/traverse/events. Space is limited.

Success Story: Emily Challender, continuous learner

Oct 10, 2018 | Intercom, Student News

October 10 2018

Working in her family-owned business, Hayes Manufacturing, Emily Challender’s job security is fairly assured.

Yet the 24-year-old purchasing manager enrolled at NMC this semester. She plans to attend part-time until she earns her associate’s degree, and then transfer to a four-year school for her bachelor’s. In addition, she led the organization of northern Michigan’s fifth annual Manufacturing Day, held Friday to a nearly doubled audience of 1,000 high school students.

Why bother? In a word, Lean. Through NMC Training Services, Fife Lake-based Hayes has offered the continuous quality improvement training since 2010. As a member of Hayes’ continuous improvement team, Challender found the principles and processes resonated with her.

“I found a thing I was passionate about (Lean) through working, and it made me more excited to go back to school,” said Challender. “Now I’m realizing the value of having a degree.”

She says Lean is especially suited to her as a woman working in the non-traditional field of manufacturing.

“Women in a lot of ways tend to be more empathetic,” Challender said. That, she said, makes them more sensitive to how the changes of continuous improvement impact employees, who may be long used to doing something another way.

“Women just seem to have kind of a knack for it, and that is exciting to me,” she said.

So watching hundreds of area high school girls participate in Manufacturing Day Friday, touring Hayes and more than 40 other regional manufacturers, was gratifying for Challender, who volunteered her time to organize the event. Eventually, she’d like her status as a woman in manufacturing not to raise eyebrows.

“It’s exciting, and it’s really cool. People are always surprised by it,” she said. “I would like to reach a point in manufacturing where it’s not surprising. It shouldn’t be.”

“Manufacturing needs girls to come in with a new perspective, and be smart and great at this job.”

Success Story: Emily Challender, continuous learner

Oct 10, 2018 | Intercom, Student News

October 10 2018

Working in her family-owned business, Hayes Manufacturing, Emily Challender’s job security is fairly assured.

Yet the 24-year-old purchasing manager enrolled at NMC this semester. She plans to attend part-time until she earns her associate’s degree, and then transfer to a four-year school for her bachelor’s. In addition, she led the organization of northern Michigan’s fifth annual Manufacturing Day, held Friday to a nearly doubled audience of 1,000 high school students.

Why bother? In a word, Lean. Through NMC Training Services, Fife Lake-based Hayes has offered the continuous quality improvement training since 2010. As a member of Hayes’ continuous improvement team, Challender found the principles and processes resonated with her.

“I found a thing I was passionate about (Lean) through working, and it made me more excited to go back to school,” said Challender. “Now I’m realizing the value of having a degree.”

She says Lean is especially suited to her as a woman working in the non-traditional field of manufacturing.

“Women in a lot of ways tend to be more empathetic,” Challender said. That, she said, makes them more sensitive to how the changes of continuous improvement impact employees, who may be long used to doing something another way.

“Women just seem to have kind of a knack for it, and that is exciting to me,” she said.

So watching hundreds of area high school girls participate in Manufacturing Day Friday, touring Hayes and more than 40 other regional manufacturers, was gratifying for Challender, who volunteered her time to organize the event. Eventually, she’d like her status as a woman in manufacturing not to raise eyebrows.

“It’s exciting, and it’s really cool. People are always surprised by it,” she said. “I would like to reach a point in manufacturing where it’s not surprising. It shouldn’t be.”

“Manufacturing needs girls to come in with a new perspective, and be smart and great at this job.”

October Flu Vaccine notice

Oct 4, 2018 | Intercom, Student News

FLU!!!

Did we scare you?
Have no fear…
Health Services is here!

FLU SHOTS are available in Health Services.
No appointment is needed.

• $15 for Students
• $20 for Faculty and Staff
• No cost for NMC Insured

Please feel free to stop by our office in Biederman Bldg. Rm 106.