NCC Press Releases

Northwest Iowa Community College to Host Senior Citizen's Day
Northwest Iowa Community College will be hosting its 21st Annual Senior Citizen's Day on Tuesday, August 2 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., with registration beginning at 8:30 a.m...

Gina Penning Awarded Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation Scholarship
Gina Penning, Granville, Iowa, has been awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. Gina will be a student in the Associate Degree Nursing program...

Ron Plum to be Honored in Who's Who Among America's Teachers
Northwest Iowa Community College is proud to announce that Ron Plum, Instructor of Business, has been nominated for a second time to be honored in Who's Who Among America's Teachers..

2nd Annual Monster Shop Held at Northwest Iowa Community College
Two teams of six high school juniors and seniors from area high schools designed and built "monsters," motorized mini-chopper/trykes, in five days during the second annual Monster Shop Build-Off...

Northwest Iowa Community College Foundation Hosts Golf Tournament
The Northwest Iowa Community College Foundation Golf Classic was held on Monday, June 6, 2005 at the Sheldon Golf & Country Club...

Hobson Receives Northwest Iowa Community College Outstanding Faculty Award
Ruth Hobson, Practical Nursing instructor at Northwest Iowa Community College, was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award during commencement ceremonies on May 20, 2005...

2005 Monster Shop Build-Off at Northwest Iowa Community College
Two teams of eight high school juniors and seniors from area high schools will design and build "monsters," a motorized ini-chopper/tryke, in five days during the second annual Monster Shop Build-Off...

5th Annual Celebrate Caregivers Conference at NCC
Northwest Iowa Community College, in cooperation with Iowa Caregivers Association and the Department of Elder Affairs announces the 5th Annual Celebrate Caregivers Conference...

Spring Honor List Announced at Northwest Iowa Community College
Northwest Iowa Community College has announced the Honor List for the spring semester. Students on the Honor List are full-time and have achieved an averaged grade point of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale...

Spring Commencement Exercises Held at NCC
Diplomas and degrees were awarded to 129 graduates in the spring commencement exercises held on Friday afternoon, May 20, 2005, at Northwest Iowa Community College...

Northwest Iowa Community College's Alumnus Receive Honors from the Iowa Department of Education
On March 17th, 2005 in Des Moines, Iowa, Adam Benner, Sanborn, received a certificate of achievement for Outstanding Achievement in Career & Technical Education...

NCC's 3rd Annual Grammar Strength Tug-of-War
On May 18th NCC faculty, staff and students will witness the 3rd Annual Grammar Strength Tug-of-War. Industrial and Commercial Wiring, Powerline, as well as individual students...

Iowa School Board Recognition Week
NCC is joining with other communities throughout Iowa to honor its elected board members during Iowa School Board Recognition Week, May 8–14...

NCC Administrative Secretarial Students Certified as Microsoft Office Specialists
Congratulations are in order for the NCC Administrative Secretarial students! Having demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Word (version 2002), the entire class successfully achieved the Microsoft Office Specialist...

Sue Behrens Awarded Star Partner Award
Sue Behrens, Accounting Program Instructor at Northwest Iowa Community College, Sheldon, Iowa, has been awarded the Star Partner Award by the Department of Treasury/Internal Revenue Service...

Dr. William G. Giddings, NCC President
At a special meeting held on Tuesday, May 3, 2005, at 7:30 p.m., the Northwest Iowa Community College Board of Trustees voted to extend a contract of employment to Dr. William G. Giddings...

Commencement Exercises at Northwest Iowa Community College
Commencement exercises at Northwest Iowa Community College, Sheldon, Iowa, will be held on Friday, May 20, 2005...

Northwest Iowa Community College's Instrumentation Students Place 2nd in Competition
A team of four Northwest Iowa Community College students received the second place prize at the District 6 Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society conference held in St. Cloud...

Annual Cultural Diversity Day Held at Northwest Iowa Community College
On April 20, 2005,Northwest Iowa Community College held its annual Cultural Diversity Day. There wre ten booths representing more than twelve cultures from around the world...

Amy Jurrens Awarded Scholarship
Amy Jurrens, Communication Instructor at Northwest Iowa Community College, was awarded a $775 scholarship to attend the 2005 IABC, International Association of Business Communicators conference...

Eleven NCC Students to Advance to National Skills USA Competition
Students from Northwest Iowa Community College, competed in the 2005 Iowa State Skills USA Championships held at Northwest Iowa Community College, Dubuque, Iowa...

NCC Board Announces Finalists for President
Four finalists have been named by the Northwest Iowa Community College (NCC) Board of Trustees in it ssearch for a new president. The finalists will be interviewed the weeks of April 11 and 18, 2005...

Bartelson Named Outstanding Distance Learning Faculty
Gretchen Bartelson, Director of Distance Education & Educational Technology at Northwest Iowa Community college in Sheldon, has received the award for Outstanding Distance Learning Faculty...

See Robotics Work-Cell in Motion on NCC Campus Open House
The Manufacturing Engineering Technology (MET) Program at Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon, IA would like to invite the public to an open house in the Machine Shop (Room 310C) in Building C...

Commencement Exercises at Northwest Iowa Community College
Commencement exercises at Northwest Iowa Community College, Sheldon, Iowa, will be held on Friday, May 20, 2005...

Auto Dealers Gropu Donates to Northwest Iowa Community College
The Iowa Automotive Dealers Association contributed $500 to the automotive programs at Northwest Iowa Community College, Sheldon, Iowa...

NCC Health Information Technology Students Take Part in "Valentines for Veterans" Program
For the fourth consecutive year, the Health Information Technology students at Northwest Iowa Community College have participated in the "Valentines for Veterans" program...

Heavy Equipment has a Learning Experience
"It's not about me, it's about the students," said Roger Solberg, first year Heavy Equipment teacher, about attending the 2005 Iowa LICA 46th Annual Meeting and Convention...

Northwest Iowa Community College Students Attend Iowa Community College Legislative Seminar
Seven students represented Northwest Iowa Community College last week in Des Moines at the annual Iowa Community College Legislative seminar...

NCC Students Named to Who's Who
Sixteen students from Northwest Iowa Community College, Sheldon, Iowa, were selected for the 2005 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges...

Campus Visit Day at NCC set for February 11th
Northwest Iowa Community College will hold a Campus Visit Day for prospective students and their parents on Friday, February 11...

Learning for the Future: NCC Uses Demographic Research in New Ways
The majority of the Northwest Iowa Community College student body is female, but a higher percentage of males graduate from the Sheldon-based institution...

Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives—Pioneer Trust Scholarships Awarded
Northwest Iowa Community College, Sheldon, Iowa, announces that Brad Vaughn, Sheldon, and Scott Whitaker, Spencer, Iowa, have been awarded Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives—Pioneer...

Powerline Scholarship Awarded
Northwest Iowa Community College, Sheldon, Iowa, announces that Craig Behrendsen, Gilmore City, Iowa; James M. Bodensteiner, Elgin, Iowa; Michael Johnson, Muscatine, Iowa...

FREE Tax Help—Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Available Through NCC
The Northwest Iowa Community College, Sheldon, Iowa, Accounting Program Tax students will be doing FREE tax filling this year...

Construction Technology and Carpentry Programs to be Offered at Northwest Iowa Community College
Northwest Iowa Community College will be offering a new program in the fall of 2005, pending Iowa Department of Education approval, along with updating a previously offered program...

Student Life at Northwest Iowa Community College Offers NCC's 2nd Grammar Strength Tug-of-War
On December 17th NCC faculty, staff and students witnessed the 2nd Annual Grammar Strength Tug-of-War. The Automotive, Truck & Diesel, and Instrumentation students, led by NCC instructor Amy Jurrens...

Eilders Accounting Scholarship Awarded to Johnson
Ona Johnson, a second year Accounting student at Northwest iowa Community College, was named this year's recipient of the Eilders Endowed Accounting Scholarship..

Association of General Contractors (AGC) Heavy Equipment Scholarship Awarded
Northwest Iowa Community College announces that Brad Gruhn, Grinnell, Iowa, has been awarded an Association of General Contractors (AGC) Heavy Equipment Scholarship...

Iowa Land Improvement Contractors Association Northwest Distrct Heavy Equipment Scholarship Awarded
Northwest Iowa Community College announces that Dean Heard, Pipestone, Minnesota, has been awarded the iowa Land Improvement Contractors Association Northwest District Heavy Equipment Scholarship...