Front Range Range Community College (FRCC) and St. Vrain Valley Schools have been awarded a $494,175 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the opening of a Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) program in cybersecurity. The grant was awarded as part of NSF’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program, which focuses […]
In June 2014, Rose Marie Tornes had her world turned upside down. “It was right before my senior year of high school in Indiana,” she recalls. “Indiana has a great program called 21st Century Scholars, where students who maintain a ‘Scholar Pledge’ and do well in school receive a scholarship for 100 percent tuition at […]
When Bronwyn Burman earned a Bachelor of Science in development studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 2010, she thought she’d end up working in a developing country building hydration and sanitation systems. But her part-time college job working for UC-Berkeley’s outdoor boating program turned into a professional opportunity, and Bronwyn managed the […]
David Thompson knew as he wrapped up his senior year of high school in 2016 that he wasn’t quite ready for higher education. “I just wasn’t in a place to succeed in college, so I decided to move out, start working, and pay rent—just to see what life on my own was like,” says David, […]
In January 2020, Yazmyn Chavez reached a goal that she’d been working toward for several years: She enrolled in college in the United States. After growing up in Colorado until age 15, Yazmyn’s family abruptly moved to Mexico, where she graduated high school and started college at Universidad Autónoma De Chihuahua Facultad De Medicina. She […]
Natashia Duncan is no stranger to hard work. The Oregon native has worked full time since graduating high school in 2012—often juggling several jobs at a time—and has also taken college classes online at the local community college wherever she has lived. “I’m the first one in my family to be interested in college, but […]
For Juliana Osornio-Barron, receiving a laptop from the FRCC Foundation during the COVID-19 crisis was the help she needed to keep her studies going. “I was really stuck,” says Juliana of continuing to keep up with school after coronavirus closed FRCC campuses — and everything else — in mid-March. “I’ve always done my school work […]
Chances are, you’ve recently been thrown into a whole new world for your college education. In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, schools, colleges, and universities around the world have moved classes online (and/or embraced some sort of remote learning format). Here at FRCC, online classes are continuing as originally scheduled, but now on-campus classes […]
