GRCC In the News, 3-20-15

Grand Rapids CC Offers Scholarships For Geek Group Memberships

March 12, 2015; mitechnews.com

GRAND RAPIDS – Grand Rapids Community College announced Thursday they are now offering a 50 percent scholarship for a six-month membership program to the Geek Group to all GRCC students who are enrolled in a workforce development program.

Top 5 things to do around Grand Rapids include Sing-Off Live, Australian Bee Gees, and Chilly Blues and Brews

March 19, 2015; MLive

… Actors’ Theatre Grand Rapids presents the musical “The Light in the Piazza” from March 19-28 in GRCC’s Spectrum Theatre, 160 Fountain St. NE. The romantic tale of Clara, a sightseer touring the Tuscan countryside, and a handsome Florentine named Fabrizio begins when Clara loses her hat to a gust of wind. The hat lands at the feet of Fabrizio and fate sparks a romance. But Clara is not all that she appears to be.

Garbage Tour includes information on electronic waste

This year’s Great(er) Grand Rapids Garbage Tour — 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 30 — includes a look at electronic waste! To sign up, click here.

100 Ways to Give: children’s books for Safe Haven Ministries

Please join the Academic Support Center and the Academic Testing Center as we collect children’s books in honor of GRCC’s 100^th anniversary and on behalf of Safe Haven Ministries. Safe Haven Ministries offers comprehensive domestic abuse services to women and their children.

In the U.S., 15.5 million children live in families in which partner violence occurred at least once in the past year, and seven million children live in families in which severe partner violence occurred. The simple gift of a book can help provide comfort to a child as they struggle to deal with experiencing these acts of domestic violence.

Books can be dropped off at one of these locations:

• Academic Support Office, 232 LRC or to any GRCC Tutorial Lab
• Academic Testing Center, 325 SCC
• Student Life
• Library
• M-Tec
• Enrollment Center
• College Success Center