Edgecombe Community College’s High Altitude Balloon Team recently won half of the awards presented at the North Carolina Space Grant High Altitude Balloon Competition. Nine teams completed the statewide competition. Eight awards were presented during a virtual ceremony held May 11. ECC’s team, known as critECCly stable, won four of the awards: Highest Altitude (with […]
Edgecombe Community College recently celebrated students who won awards at the state SkillsUSA competition held in April. College officials hosted a reception on May 4 for the students, their families, and faculty advisors. Eighteen students and six faculty advisors participated in the SkillsUSA North Carolina State Leadership and Skills Conference, a competition for students to […]
Edgecombe Community College students and staff participated in the Adopt-A-Highway cleanup on April 29 sponsored by the college’s chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society. The Alpha Omega Nu chapter at ECC collected 11 bags of trash and recyclables along a three-mile stretch of highway in front of the Tarboro campus. The chapter is […]
Every Edgecombe Community College student who competed at the recent SkillsUSA state conference brought home an award. Eighteen students and six faculty advisors traveled to Greensboro to participate in the SkillsUSA North Carolina State Leadership and Skills Conference held April 18-20. SkillsUSA offers a competition for students to demonstrate their career and technical skills. The […]
For the fifth time in eight years, members of Edgecombe Community College’s High Altitude Balloon Team are state champions in the SkillsUSA North Carolina Championships, Career Pathways Showcase: Industrial and Engineering Technology. The competition was held April 18-20 in Greensboro. From left are ECC-high school dual enrolled students Payden Kiser and Matthew Duff of Edgecombe […]
Edgecombe Community College is grateful for the service of 2022-2023 Student Government Association executive officers, who plan and lead activities for students and provide an important link between college leadership and the student body. Many thanks to this year’s officers: Rasheen McKinnies-Clark, president; La’Derrika Clark, vice president; Guadalupe Valdez-Marroquin, historian; Je’Aisa Belcher, treasurer; Sheleta George, […]
Edgecombe Community College’s student honor society won fourteen awards at the recent awards ceremony held by the Phi Theta Kappa Carolinas Region. The awards ceremony was the capstone of the regional convention, held March 17-19 in Columbia, SC. ECC’s chapter, Alpha Omega Nu, received the following awards: Chapter Awards Distinguished Chapter – Honorable Mention Five-Star […]
The Edgecombe Community College community and area residents were inspired by the compelling stories of African American soldiers who fought in the Civil War during the college’s annual Black History Month celebration held February 9. The United States Colored Troops 35th Regiment Reenactment Group performed an interpretive program based on the experiences of the U.S. […]
Edgecombe Community College’s Alpha Omega Nu chapter of Phi Theta Kappa welcomed twenty-three new members into its membership recently. Phi Theta Kappa is an honor society for students attending two-year schools. The organization held an induction ceremony on the Tarboro campus in November. The guest speaker was Doug Parrish, department chair of Industrial and Technical […]
Edgecombe Community College is proud to announce Student Ambassadors for 2022-2023: Fernando Baez, Business Administration Brinkley Dew, Edgecombe Early College High School, Agribusiness Technology Crystal Gray, Surgical Technology Jaleesa Walston, Nursing The ECC Foundation sponsors the Student Ambassador program each year to reward academic excellence. Student Ambassadors must maintain a 3.25 grade point average. These […]
