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April 1, 2022
CUPPA JOE | straight up news.
Business Record "Workplace learning program focuses on teachers to help close labor gap" story, includes insights from Gena Gesing, NICC Manager of Career and Work-Based Learning ... link
John Deere TECH programs, including ours at the Calmar campus, featured in Successful Farming magazine ... link
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FACULTY AND STAFF: View the College's Strategic Priorities document in NICC Shared Files!
WEEKLY FEATURE | good to know.
Mark Your Calendar: Day of Caring on Friday, April 29
All faculty and staff members are invited to participate in this year's Day of Caring event and volunteer two hours to beautifying our campuses. Volunteers who volunteer for two or more hours will receive a FREE boxed lunch!
Calmar Projects: Child Development Center playground cleanup, patio cleanup and garbage/litter pickup.
Peosta Projects: Assist the NICC Garden Club with prepping gardens, Child Development Center playground cleanup, adding compost to the flower planters by the Industrial Technology building and cleaning up the area in front of NECAS.
Sign up for NICC Day of Caring!
Please RSVP by Friday, April 22. Alternate date if needed will be on Friday, May 6.
Business Professionals of America Fundraiser Starts next Week!
The College’s Business Professionals of America (BPA) chapters are holding an Easter Basket Fundraiser from Monday, April 4 through Friday, April 8 at 2 p.m. Bid winners can pick up items at the campus cafeteria or make other arrangements. Payment must be made in full at the time of pick-up.
Four of our BPA students, three from Peosta and one from Calmar, are attending the National Conference in Dallas, Texas, in May 2022! Please help support our students by bidding on a variety of Easter Basket items to give to family, friends or yourself this Easter.
Calmar and Peosta Hosting Red Cross Blood Drives on Monday, April 4
The College’s Business Professionals of America (BPA) chapters are holding an Easter Basket Fundraiser from Monday, April 4 through Friday, April 8 at 2 p.m. Bid winners can pick up items at the campus cafeteria or make other arrangements. Payment must be made in full at the time of pick-up. Four of our BPA students, three from Peosta and one from Calmar, are attending the National Conference in Dallas, Texas, in May 2022! Please help support our students by bidding on a variety of Easter Basket items to give to family, friends or yourself this Easter.
Peosta Information and Registration
Calmar Information and Registration
Come to give April 1-18 and get a Red Cross T-shirt, while supplies last. It’s our thanks for being part of our lifesaving team. Your donation can help patients get back in the game this spring. All presenting donors at the Peosta campus will be entered for a chance to win a $20 gift card from Texas Roadhouse.
GREEN CORNER
Kara and Piper, our Green Iowa AmeriCorps Sustainability Coordinators, will be bringing us regular facts and tips to green your life and make it more sustainable.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average American produces nearly five pounds of trash each day, and nearly one ton of garbage each year — and that's not an April Fool's joke! We wanted to know what this looks like for us: how much trash does our NICC Calmar campus produce? Your NICC Sustainability Coordinators will be rolling up their sleeves next Thursday, April 7, for a campus-wide waste audit to answer that question!
What's a waste audit? A waste audit is a survey of trash collected over a certain period of time. Are you wondering why on earth we would sift through all of the campus garbage? Looking at a week's worth of campus garbage by sorting, categorizing and compiling data gives us a snapshot of how much garbage we produce on campus, and shows us how much waste is going into the landfill that could be recycled or disposed of differently. With this information, we can be more effective in our waste reduction campaigns, and NICC students, faculty and staff can take an active role in reducing our campus waste to be part of the solution!
We will be joined by Americorps members and a seasoned waste auditor, Tammy Turner, who helps school districts, community colleges and businesses across Iowa conduct waste audits! We are super grateful for our maintenance and custodial teams for helping us run a smooth waste audit this spring, and to the NICC Operations team for being on board for this project! Send a big thank you their way when next time you see them.
Check out this 2 minute video from North Carolina State University to see what a waste audit actually looks like in practice. Better yet, grab a friend and head down to the Calmar campus Maintenance building on Thursday, April 7 starting at 9:30 a.m. to see how a waste audit works, and join us in sorting and categorizing our campus garbage for a bit (it's really fun, we promise!). Thank you for joining us in making NICC a cleaner, greener place!
BIG FISH | be amazed.
Tony Ries
Maintenance/Custodial | Peosta
What lie were you told as a kid? (e.g., if you swallow a watermelon seed, one will grow in your stomach)
If I swallowed gum, it takes seven years to digest.
If extraterrestrials (aliens) landed on Earth, and you were the first one to communicate with them, what would you say or ask?
Are your leaders as crazy and narcissistic as ours?
A person who doesn’t know they have greatly impacted my life is ______________. Please explain.
Jerome Powell. His honesty and bravery in these recent years continues to inspire and amaze me. I believe he takes his role as fed chair very seriously and with the help of Janet Yellen, they can help solve the world’s problems and fight climate change successfully.
What would be a good name for a conspiracy-themed restaurant?
The Grassy Knoll Subs.
What fashion trend do you regret?
White t-shirts under every shirt.
If you have input on a upcoming feature, Big Fish, something to celebrate or a suggestion, email us at news@nicc.edu!