News, information and events from Thomas Nelson Community College

The SGA wants to support our TNCC families in need during the holiday season. We will decorate holiday trees with our children’s printed names on stars at the Hampton and Historic Triangle campuses.

The trees will be displayed in Gators Café, Griffin Hall – Hampton and Student Commons – Historic Triangle Campus. Offer is limited to the first 100 TNCC children signed up to participate (up to 16 years old), so please respond quickly.

Gifts will be distributed during:

• SGA Holiday Party for Hampton Students on December 11, 2009 from 5:00 – 7:00 pm in Gators Café, Griffin Hall – Hampton Campus
• SGA Holiday Party for Historic Triangle Students on December 17, 2009 from 4:00 – 6:00 pm in Room 229 – Historic Triangle Campus

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According to reports, more people have been killed in motorcycle accidents this year in Hampton Roads than in 2008. As the fall season rolls in with its beautiful mild weather, many motorcycle owners are planning scenic rides to enjoy wonderful autumn views. Now is the perfect time for new and advanced riders to consider taking a Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) motorcycle safety course to reduce their risks on the road.

Motorcycle riders face many more dangers on the road than automobile drivers. TNCC offers year-round Virginia Rider Training Program motorcycle classes to provide riders with the opportunity to continually enhance their knowledge and driving ability while operating a motorcycle.

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Patricia Taylor, TNCC’s Dean of Mathematics Engineering and Technologies, has announced an exciting offer from the University of Virginia (UVa) that TNCC Engineering students can explore. UVa is giving students an opportunity to complete a bachelor’s degree in engineering without traveling to Charlottesville.

Taylor asks all TNCC faculty and staff to share this great news.

UVa is now offering one of its undergraduate degree programs fully at a distance. Graduates of an Associate of Science in Engineering degree program (or equivalent) are potentially eligible for the program. For more information, visit the following web site: http://www.seas.virginia.edu/producedinva.

Those interested may contact Dr. James Groves at jgroves@virginia.edu or (434) 924-6261. Groves is an associate professor, Assistant Dean for Research and Outreach and Director of the Engineers PRODUCED in Virginia program at UVa.

HAMPTON, Va. – Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) students have the opportunity to learn outside of the classroom thanks to a new Engineering Club founded by Jason Colley, a student at TNCC. The organization invites students in Engineering, Mathematics and other Technology-related areas of study to share ideas, collaborate on various projects, and learn the newest technology and more.

Ji Hyon Mun, Associate Professor and Engineering Department Head, serves as the faculty advisor for the club. “They wanted to form a club so that they can do engineering applications outside [of] the classroom because you can know in the classroom they are pretty much confined to what I tell them and what I expect them to do; but out of the classroom they can apply whatever they’re learning from their other classes and have fun with it,” she said.

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HAMPTON, Va. — Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) Geology students supplemented their in-class lessons with a hands-on look at geology during the Virginia Geological Field Conference October 2 – 3 at Shenandoah National Park. The conference is held in a different region of Virginia each year and gives students a first-hand look at the geology the Commonwealth has to offer. TNCC students first attended the conference in 2007 when it was held in Williamsburg. Last year, the conference was held in Marion, Va.

Geology Instructor and Department Head Peter Berquist accompanies the students each year and says it’s an invaluable experience. “Students who have participated in these trips in the past always refer back to these field trips throughout the semester, recalling when they saw a certain rock or fossil or discussing an important geologic process or event. These experiences clearly stick with the students and provide them with their own frame of reference to which they can incorporate course content,” Berquist said.

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HAMPTON, Va. – Thomas Nelson Community College’s (TNCC) Phi Sigma chapter of Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) International Honor Society will host its fall 2009 induction on Thursday, November 5th. Free and open to the public, the ceremony takes place at 7 p.m. in the Dr. Mary T. Christian Auditorium, Templin Hall, located on the Hampton campus.

Virginia Keithley, director of the TRiO Program at TNCC, is the keynote speaker. Mrs. Keithley has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Christopher Newport University, and a Master’s degree in Student Personnel Services as well as an Educational Specialist degree in Counseling from the College of William and Mary. She joined TNCC in November 2005.

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Thomas Nelson Community College invites the public to a presentation about H1N1 on Wednesday, October 28 from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. in the Dr. Mary T. Christian Auditorium, Templin Hall, Hampton campus.

TNCC’s own health and safety experts, along with representatives from the Virginia Department of Health and Sentara, will discuss facts as well as prevention and treatment to raise public awareness about H1N1.

Update: A recorded version of the presentation will be made available of this presentation in the near future.  Please watch News @ TNCC for more information.

The Peninsula Workforce Development Center in Hampton will be the site of the Future Business Leaders of America’s (FBLA) Regional Conference Monday, October 26 at 3 p.m. The semi-annual event is a gathering for high school students who are members of the organization at schools in the TNCC service area.

TNCC Historic Triangle Provost William Travis, who serves as regional director of FBLA’s Thomas Nelson region, says he expects more than 120 students at this year’s event.

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