CLC's Corey Hins receives Outstanding Achievement Award

Central Lakes College Systems Administrator Corey Hins
 won second place for outstanding achievement at the All MnSCU IT conference April 27-29 at Cragun’s Resort.

Projects by IT personnel were first submitted by CIOs and supervisors, then voted on by the same group to choose three winners, individuals or groups.

Hins participated in a group that is planning and architecting an Office 365 Tenant deployment to service all of MnSCU students, staff and faculty. This would allow students to maintain one account for email and OneDrive storage, no matter what MNSCU college or colleges they are attending. This project was chosen as the second place winner.

This marks the second time Hins received an Outstanding Achievement Award. The first was in 2013, where he received second place for a Virtual Desktop project in collaboration with the Brainerd School District.

Have any unwanted books or textbooks?

Those big, empty green and orange boxes sitting around campus could use some filling.

Bring in your unwanted and used books and textbooks and pile them inside. It's an effort of CLC's Phi Theta Kappa Club, which is hosting a Better World Book drive this spring.

The Better World Book Drive is an event where we as a campus donate books in support of non-profit literacy programs (Books for Africa, Room To Read, Worldfund, and the National Center for Families Learning). 

So the Phi Theta Kappa Club is asking students, faculty and staff to consider donating their unwanted books and textbooks. Just drop them in the big, colorful boxes. It's that easy!

In the week after finals, the club will then ship them off to the Better World Book organization for redistribution. 

Learn more about the effort here: www.betterworldbooks.com

Music Department holding Spring concert

The Central Lakes College Music Department will present it's Spring concert “Broadway, Brooklyn and Bayou, An American Ethnic Landscape” at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12 in the Chalberg Theater, on the CLC Brainerd campus. 

The Jazz Band will perform music from Dizzy Gillespie to Chuck Mangione to local musical icon, Russ Carlyle. 

The Community Concert Band has a varied program with music from Broadway, 20th Century Art, a Jewish celebration, a Mexican march and a new tune from a former band member, Jeff Liebsch. 

Admission is $5 at the door, but CLC students and children 12 and under get in free.

There are no reserved seats and no advanced ticket sales. 

For more information, call Steve Anderson at 218-831-3652.

CLC puts robots, welders in hands of high schoolers

Area high schoolers got their hands on robots for the first time, thanks to Central Lakes College.

The CLC Manufacturing Programs participated in a college fair and career exploration event at Technical High School in St. Cloud this week. 

Students in grades 8-11th from both high schools, Apollo and Tech, learned about careers in manufacturing while visiting the CLC booth. 

Robbie Lange, Robotics instructor, helped students operate a robot, while explaining how robots are used in industry. He also detailed how they themselves could get training to work in robotics and automation. 

Student Award Day pulls in plenty of winners

Students and staff at both the Staples and Brainerd campuses were honored this week at our Student Awards Day.

Staples

Student employee of the year: Brent Sterriker

Senate member of the year: Alex Began

Male student of the year: Josh Guyse

Female student of the year: Natalie Berens

Club of the year: Diesel Club

Outstanding advisor: Michael Sams

Outstanding faculty of the year: Sandy Porter

Outstanding Staff of the year: Gayle Wonders

CLC Department of the year: Photography Department

Administrator of the year: Kari Christiansen

CLC's DelRay Lecy inducted into Minnesota FFA Hall of Fame

Central Lakes College agricultural educator DelRay Lecy was recently inducted into the Minnesota FFA Hall of Fame. 

He was given the honor at the 86th Minnesota FFA Convention Monday, April 27.

Lecy has been involved in agricultural education for more than 35 years. He started at CLC in 1974 teaching farm business management and farm operations and management. He also served as director of the Ag Center for three years and was associate dean of management education programs. After he retired from CLC in 2009, Lecy continued part-time as dean of technical programs at the Staples campus until 2013. He currently works on special projects in farm business management with CLC.

The former Staples resident said being inducted into the Minnesota FFA Hall of Fame is “rather humbling.”

Learn about Costa Rica during at Cultural Thursday event

Come learn about Costa Rica, as experienced by Central Lakes College students and community members, during a Cultural Thursday event at noon Thursday, May 7 in the Chalberg Theatre, Brainerd campus. 

Three CLC student participants, Chelsea Kraemer, Linda Nichols and Cole Bobzien, will talk about the environment, the animal species, typical foods, musical instruments and the production of chocolate. 

At the presentation, view some exciting pictures shared among the whole group, and get a little taste of the interdisciplinary adventure organized by the CLC Global Studies Department and the International Education Committee.

The audience can ask the participants anything about the country after the presentation.