Student discovers love of film from app design
Hope Stokes started her senior year of high school ready to leave and “be done with school.”
She expected paperwork and classes to sit through and one worksheet after the other.
Culture
Clubs reach out in community
The 21st Century After-School Program has been helping Amarillo College club members mentor students at San Jacinto and Whittier elementary schools since fall 2011. The grant program was started to support the “No Excuses” philosophy.
Hilary Cordero, program coordinator, schedules the activities between clubs and schools. The goal of the program is to help motivate children to seek post-secondary education.
Ready. Set. Record.
Amarillo College offers many options for degree programs: almost everything to choose from. But Scott Beckett, a music instructor, is pioneering a new degree that would bring recording arts to the foreground as the premier program at AC.
“We are in the process of creating a degree program,” Beckett said. “In order for us to officially launch this program, we have to have five years of tracking. In another two years, it will be a full program.”
West develops photo outreach
When asked, many students said they’d be hard-pressed to find an instructor as passionate as Rene West.
An Amarillo College photography instructor since 2008, West has shared that enthusiasm with the many students who have passed through her classes.
PBS educates, entertains: Science, technology, math main focuses
When Amarillo got its a public television station in 1988, it was known as KACV-TV.
The station underwent a rebranding recently, dropping the old title and emerging under the name Panhandle PBS.
‘Big’ bird idea promotes station
Panhandle Public Broadcasting Service started the Big Idea Challenge April 2. It’s a five-week puzzle full of scattered clues all around Amarillo.
The Challenge, in its first year, is a way to raise funds for Panhandle PBS.
EDITORIAL: It’s not just ‘Big Bird’: Watch Panhandle PBS
There is a little TV station that lives down on the lower-numbered channels. It is a little station that few of us settle on when we’re just searching for something to zone out on. It’s a station that has been there for us since childhood but now that we’re older gets neglected like an old friend we don’t call often enough.
Visiting photographer inspires students to test the waters
Brianna Burnett spoke to AC faculty and students April 3 on photography, tintypes and more.
STC works out kinks
Nine weeks into the semester, it appears Amarillo College’s latest endeavor, the Science Testing Center, finally has worked out all the kinks.
Students who have managed to avoid Warren Hall and all things science may be unaware of what the Science Testing Center is and how dysfunctional it was when it opened.