TCC Magazine

Road to Success

June 12, 2023

Muscatine Community College graduate becomes award-winning novelist, cartoonist, and independent filmmaker. When Max Allan Collins puts pen to paper, magic follows. It always has.

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A Vision Coming to Life

October 1, 2022 | Johnna Kerres

Simmering soups, virtual welders, auto lifts, and more were on full display as hundreds of people soaked in the sights, sounds, and smells of EICCs' brand new Clinton Career Advancement Center late last year.

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Ready to Rock

March 17, 2022 | Griffin Wagner

Metallica’s All Within My Hands grant is music to students’ ears Yes, you read that right. The Metallica. The Metallica that has sold over 125 million album copies worldwide. The Metallica that has received nine Grammy Awards. The Metallica that has over 17.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Add yet another thing to that list…

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Innovation Brought to Reality

March 17, 2022 | Griffin Wagner

Scott Community College student creates virtual reality training for local non-profit organization Sitting behind his computer, light illuminating his face, keys clacking and mouse swirling, Chad Behal is able to flawlessly create immersive environments in virtual reality (VR). With skills learned from the Augmented and Virtual Reality (AVR) program at Scott Community College, 3D modeling,…

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Woman in Charge

March 17, 2022 | Griffin Wagner

EICC graduate finds success in Supply Chain program Karen Bell is a busy woman. As a manager for Promotion Fulfillment Center, a local product fulfillment and promotional services company, she’s on the go 24/7. “We’re a third party center,” she said. “Clients send their inventory and we ship it out. We work with leading brands…

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Voices of Diversity

March 17, 2022 | Griffin Wagner

Bridging social understanding, cultural awareness and inclusivity With a geographic area reaching more than 120 miles from north to south and multiple learning sites, Eastern Iowa Community Colleges features a vibrant combination of urban and rural landscapes. This creates an incredible diversity of ages, ethnic backgrounds, experiences and cultures among our students and the communities…

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If you build it, they will come

March 15, 2022 | Griffin Wagner

Muscatine Community College (MCC) students work with local artist to create campus sculpture Take a walk around the Muscatine Community College campus and you’ll likely find a newly erected sculpture in the quad, right outside Loper Hall. You can’t miss it—standing almost 10 ft. tall and taking up over 40 ft. of real-estate, the sculpture…

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Art Inspires

February 15, 2022 | Griffin Wagner

Scott Community College honors student paints large-scale mural to bring hope to hospital patients. In Genesis West’s Behavioral Health unit, stands the largest recreational room in 2 North. Although the room is used for a myriad of things—group meetings, art classes, mealtime, spiritual care—there was nothing on the four walls that enclosed it. Just beige…

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Global Reach EICC

July 9, 2021 | Johnna Kerres

Education Prepares Vietnamese Nun to Give Back With little more than her faith and a few belongings, six years ago Sister Nuong Bui traveled to the United to States to embark on a journey of self discovery and sacrifice with one goal in mind: To become a nurse. Many people choose this career path because…

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Ready to Work

July 9, 2021 | Johnna Kerres

When Muscatine Community College (MCC) student Brock Jeambey was considering what to do after high school, he only knew he wanted a hands-on career close to home. It wasn’t until an Engineering Tech instructor presented at his high school that he discovered all of the opportunities available in the field.…

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