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How to Succeed at MCC

MCC Blog Admin — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:51:00 GMT

Another spring season comes to a close for the MCC Theatre, and with it, came a bringing-down-the-house version of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, directed by Drama Queen Karen Oster and her outstanding cast of students!

And this time, for the rollicking big finale number, the students were joined on stage by staff and faculty who helped beef up the numbers for the big chorus line dance number!

As always, the Drama Club delivered an incredibly entertaining night in our Black Box Theatre in the Merrimack Building alongside City Campus. We'll shut up now and just let you enjoy some of the sights of the night, courtesy of Alyce O'Connell at http://alyceoconnell.com/

Fling is in the Air!

MCC Blog Admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:16:00 GMT

Spring Fling 2012 has come and gone, and there's tons of fun memories to help wind down the 2011-2012 school year for our students and staff!

Once again, a huge round of applause for the Student Activities crew and its army of volunteers who help bring the bling to a Spring Fling!

Packed along the trolley tracks aside the Eastern Canal behind our City Campus, more than 1,000 students, staff, faculty, and community friends took part in the day of festivities! It was a great use of one of more scenic vistas in downtown Lowell, with the Lowell National Historical Park's Lower Locks as the backdrop, and even a visit from the Park's Trolley to help feed the ambience!

A dance flash mob, acrobatic comedians, a dunk tank (featuring multiple brave souls who took the plunge on the windy day), fried dough, basketball hoops, Baggo games, and Rock, Paper, Scissors face-offs helped keep the pace peppy!

In this case, the pictures tell the story, so we'll just shut up about our wonderful team organizers and let you cast your peepers on some of the fun in the sun from Spring Fling 2012! (Photos by Kevin Harkins from www.harkinsphotography.com)

Full of Hot Air

MCC Blog Admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:41:00 GMT

Cue the Fifth Dimension song Up, Up, and Away, it's time for beautiful balloons, MCC style!

MCC's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Club held a community event recently with students from the J.G. Pyne Middle School, who visited MCC's city campus to build their own hot air balloons!

The STEM club hosted about 15 middle school students, and with about 15 MCC students, turned MCC's city campus cafeteria into a balloon ballroom!

Using tissue paper, glue and wire, the STEM Club members combined the raw materials with their engineering and math savvy to create hot air balloons!

The students learned first-hand what makes a hot air balloon rise, and what size and shapes are the best for the balloons.

They learned to calculate the volume of air inside different shapes of balloons, as well as how much air weighs, and the reason hot air rises above colder air.

The MCC students were great role models for the middle schoolers, who got a small taste of college life for the afternoon. Give a cheer for STEM Club event organizers Amelia McHugh, Karen Gupta, Fiona Almeida, and Paloma Pagano-Rodriguez! Keep the cheer going for the other MCC students who helped out - Milena Spirova, Matt Kelly, Charlotte McHugh, Edson Novinyo, Piseth Teng, Fran Palacios, Rebekah Dufrene, Hassan McKusick-Shreim, Ann Marie Cambio, Yesehaq Fauconier, and STEM faculty advisors Margie Bleichman and Maria Arambel!

And just for good measure, to leave you singing a song, at least for the rest of today, cue the lyrics, and you're welcome:

Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
We could float among the stars together, you and I
For we can fly we can fly
Up, up and away
My beautiful, my beautiful balloon
The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon
It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon
We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky
For we can fly we can fly
Up, up and away
My beautiful, my beautiful balloon
Suspended under a twilight canopy
We'll search the clouds for a star to guide us
If by some chance you find yourself loving me
We'll find a cloud to hide us
We'll keep the moon beside us
Love is waiting there in my beautiful balloon
Way up in the air in my beautiful balloon
If you'll hold my hand we'll chase your dream across the sky
For we can fly we can fly
Up, up and away
My beautiful, my beautiful balloon
Balloon...
Up, up, and away.....