Tiger Talk Episode 30 05/29/18

05/29/18 • 20 min

Tiger Talk Podcast by Northeast Mississippi Community College

We have reached the BIG 3-0 on the TigerTalk Podcast and we thank each and every one of you for being our faithful listeners since October. In this milestone podcast, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes listeners to the thirtieth (30th) edition of the TigerTalk podcast with Northeast's diesel mechanics instructor Jonathan Alexander, who talks about the need for career technical education students and the current job openings in the state and the nation where they are currently experiencing a shortage of workers. Alexander also gives us a brief look at the HEADS 2018 career tech fair that will be coming up on October 11 from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. on the NEMCC Booneville campus that is geared toward students in grades 7-12 to help introduce them to career technical occupations. We will talk more about the HEADS 2018 conference in later TigerTalks. In addition to Alexander's interview, Sports Information Director Blake Long joins the podcast to recap the athletic year in review and also talks about all the summer camps that will be happening on campus including baseball camp which started today (May 29) at Harold T. White Field.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

Previous Episode

Tiger Talk Episode 29 05/22/18

Host Will Kollmeyer welcomes listeners to the twenty-ninth edition of the TigerTalk podcast with the college's outgoing athletic director Kent Farris as Farris discusses the success of the Tiger and Lady Tiger athletic programs during the 2017-18 academic year. Farris touches on football, men and women's basketball, cheerleading, baseball and softball and highlights the success that each program has brought to the college. With his announced retirement, Farris looks back on his years at Northeast as a coach and then athletic director and talks about the upcoming selection of the college's Sports Hall of Fame class. Apple Distinguished Educator and technology specialist Jeffrey Powell stops by the podcast studios for a look at the tenth anniversary of the Mobile Learning Conference and discusses how the conference has changed -- the conference has been around longer than the iPad. Powell gives insight into the keynote for the conference -- Rebecca Stockley, who is known as The Improv Lady and who has served as a consultant to Lucasfilms and PIXAR animation studios. Title IX coordinator, recruiter and career development academy project manager Beth Benson wraps up our twenty-ninth podcast by telling listeners about the CDA and all its plans such as six camps during the summer including a health and wellness camp, a career exploration camp, a STEM camp, a Tiger Tech camp, a reading and theatre camp and finally an art camp to wrap up the summer. Northeast's Career Development Academy is aimed at students 12-18 and will be expanding its presence in the fall into Union and Alcorn counties. Alas, this podcast marks the first time that Kenny Paul Geno does not give us his weekly spotlight of what is coming up at Northeast.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

Next Episode

Tiger Talk Episode 31 06/05/18

In this thirty-first (31st) episode of the TigerTalk Podcast by Northeast Mississippi Community College, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes the college's heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) instructor Russ Bullard to the podcast as Bullard talks about his program, some of his alumni and gives some tips on how to cut the cost of those summer heating bills. Producer/Sound Engineer Michael H. Miller makes his debut in the narrator's chair as he interviews NEMCC English instructor Amanda Garvin about one of the programs that she is involved with -- the Prison Writes Initiative - and its upcoming graduation at the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility in Corinth. Kenny Paul Geno returns to the podcast after a two-week absence to give listeners an update on what all is going on at Northeast during the first week of June.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.