On Campus at GCC: Academic Senate awards scholarships
The Glendale Community College Academic Senate awarded scholarships at the year-end faculty meeting.
Each scholarship was for $1,000. The Senate Scholarship for Academic Excellence for Completion of a Degree or General Education Transfer Pattern in Two Years was presented to Armine Ter-Barsegyan. She has a 3.90 grade-point average and has been accepted to UCLA in the cognitive sciences program.
The Senate Scholarship for Academic Excellence for Completion of a Degree or General Education Transfer Pattern in Four Years went to Elizabeth Wilcox. She has a 3.94 grade-point average.
The Outstanding Vocational Student Award was given to Jacob Berumen. The criteria for the vocational award is set by the technology and aviation division.
Also presented was the Jeanne Cunningham Homemaker Scholarship for the student with highest grade-point average with 60 units and accepted to transfer. The recipient was Karine Nersessian. She has been accepted to the college’s nursing program.
The scholarship was established by the late Jeanne Cunningham, a longtime psychology professor at the college who passed away in 2004. The $1,000 award is presented annually to a student functioning as a homemaker with dependent children while attaining academic excellence at Glendale Community College.
The college offers more than 500 scholarships and has the largest scholarship program of any community college in California.
Many scholarship recipients will be recognized at the annual Honors and Awards Banquet to be held at 6 p.m. on June 15 at the Glenoaks Ballroom in Glendale. It is sponsored by the Associated Students, the Scholarship Office and the College Foundation. In addition to scholarship recognition, students are honored with Men and Women of Distinction and Man and Woman of the Year awards.
Summer science camp offered for children
Glendale Community College’s Community Services Education program has partnered with Destination Science to provide summer camps for children ages 5 to 11 years old. The camp curriculum is designed to combine innovative science projects, creativity challenges, outdoor games and character development that revolve around technology, physics and space.
The programs will be held at 1500 N. Verdugo Road, and can be taken Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at $315 per week.
Space Quest Science Camp is the first camp and will meet June 20 to 24. Campers will construct a Millennium Starship and search for Earth-like planets. They will also create, launch and race the Land Rocket Explorer.
From June 27 to July 1, Super Hero Physics Science Camp will be offered. Kids will build their own Super Hero Race Cars and experiment with circuits, wheels, friction and Newton’s laws of motion. They will also encounter some real world super creatures.
Robot Challenge Science Camp will be held July 5 through 9. Campers build their own team of wacky robots, design an electronic game, create a sound-and-laser show and uncover the fourth state of matter, plasma. There will be no camp on July 4, so the cost is discounted to $260.
The final course of the camp program will be Roller Coaster Science Camp, offered from July 11 to 15. Kids will build their own electric powered roller coasters and engineer fun carnival projects including a magnetic game, a light-up bubble factory and catapults.
To register, go to glendale.edu/cse or call (818) 240-1000, Ext. 5015.
Summer classes have openings
Glendale Community College’s first summer classes will begin June 20, and there are still openings in several credit and noncredit courses.
There are credit classes available in accounting, architecture, art, computer applications and business office technology, dance, English, engineering, English as a Second Language, history, humanities, mathematics, music, oceanography, physical education and speech.
To check for open summer courses go to glendale.edu/schedules. Classes have various start dates during the summer session. To take a credit course, an application for admission must be submitted online. Go to glendale.edu and click on apply and register.
For information and instructions on registering for noncredit classes go to glendale.edu/ce.
Swap meet held monthly
The Glendale Community College Hilltop Flea Market and Swap Meet will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 19 on the upper campus parking lot off Mountain Street.
The swap meet is held on the third Sunday of every month and features antiques and collectibles as well as jewelry, clothing, toys, linens and art.
Admission is $2 per car. Parking is free.
Vendors who wish to set up a space can get an advance reservation for $40 or $50 on the day of the event.
For more information about the swap meet, call (818) 240-1000, Ext. 5805, or go to glendale.edu/gccswapmeet.
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WENDY GROVE is public information coordinator at Glendale Community College.
