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²ÝÁñÉçÇø Presidential Scholars, Jessica Velazquez of Mount Vernon and Angelica Fuentes of Mount Pleasant were recently awarded Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarships. These prestigious awards cover up to $40,000†annually at a university of the student?s choice for up to three†years. Only†75 students were selected from more than 2,000 top applicants in a very competitive process for this national honor.

?Each year†I am impressed by our students? successes.

²ÝÁñÉçÇø recently announced that its library has been renamed the Charlie and Helen Hampton Learning Resource Center (LRC). The NTCC Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve the new building name in their April board meeting. This is the first name change in a recently-launched fundraising/naming campaign by the NTCC Foundation. The naming campaign comes as the campus interior undergoes a major transformation.

Helen Hampton and her late husband, Charlie, of Naples, are longtime friends of NTCC.

Kassandra V. Martinez, a ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Honors Scholar, and Tanika Santos, a member of the NTCC Women?s Soccer Team have become the first winners of the Bonnie Spencer Awards for superior essays in history.† Spencer, an alumna of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø, and the leader of NTCC?s first history club in 2003, established the fund that awards the prizes. She also read the submissions, and helped select the winners.

The ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Continuing Education Department is planning a variety of fun courses for kids ages 8-15 this summer. Registration is now open for the iCan Kids Discovery College, which will be held in two sessions.

?Our summer kids programs have been very popular in the past and we are excited to bring them back this year. This is a great way for kids to get out of the house and do something both fun and educational during the summer months†and discover what NTCC has to offer,?

²ÝÁñÉçÇø held its ninth†annual McGraw-Hill Poster contest Friday, April 29. The event was held in the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts and featured research by 20 of NTCC?s most decorated scholars. The contest has become an annual test of creative research in ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Texas, funded in part by the McGraw-Hill Corporation, and judged by friends of the college, and Honors ²ÝÁñÉçÇø.