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The Durham Technical Community College team placed first in the Rube Goldberg Engineering 150 Competition on Saturday.
More than 80 teams, including five from Durham Tech, competed for the top spot and a $700 cash prize. The competition was hosted by Wake Technical Community College.
More than 80 teams, including five from Durham Tech, competed for the top spot and a $700 cash prize. The competition was hosted by Wake Technical Community College.
RTI International has granted the Durham Technical Community College Foundation $50,000 to establish a scholarship endowment fund for Early Childhood Education students.
Learn more about student scholarships for all immigration statuses.
Elyse Yooley remembers what it felt like to wear her first pair of glasses.
“It was like, ‘Whoa, there are actually leaves on those trees,’” she said.
This fall, Yooley will enter her second year of the Opticianry Associate Degree program at Durham Technical Community College.
As a second-year opticianry student, Yooley will join her classmates in participating in Project SIGHT. Project SIGHT is a partnership Durham Tech has with the East Durham Children’s Initiative, or EDCI, and Durham Public Schools to provide children of low-income backgrounds with free eyeglasses.
“It was like, ‘Whoa, there are actually leaves on those trees,’” she said.
This fall, Yooley will enter her second year of the Opticianry Associate Degree program at Durham Technical Community College.
As a second-year opticianry student, Yooley will join her classmates in participating in Project SIGHT. Project SIGHT is a partnership Durham Tech has with the East Durham Children’s Initiative, or EDCI, and Durham Public Schools to provide children of low-income backgrounds with free eyeglasses.
During the student activities trip to Washington, DC last week, several students participating in the Global Distinction Program took an afternoon to learn about policy making with a special visit to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). MPI is a non-partisan, non-profit think tank dedicated to researching issues of migration around the world.
Training for more than 100 Durham Tech employees is made possible by a $25,000 grant from the PNC Foundation.
In-state and out-of-state curriculum students can learn more here about how to pay for tuition and fees.
From now through Dec. 22, Durham Technical Community College is taking part in the fifth annual Collegiate Hunger Challenge, competing against 13 other colleges and universities. The challenge tackles food insecurity on college campuses and empowers students to create awareness around hunger as they compete to collect the most food for those experiencing hunger.
Classes are delivered as seated, online, or hybrid, Online classes can be synchronous (everyone is online at the same time or asynchronous. Learn the differences.
Marcia Angle and Mark Trustin have donated a sizeable sum to the Durham Technical Community College Foundation, including $50,000 to support Durham Public School students enrolled in courses at Durham Tech. The $50,000 will purchase textbooks for students beginning in the 2023-2024 school year who are part of the recently announced DPS-Durham Tech Partnership.