What's Happening at Cañada? Week of May 25, 2015

Cañada Engineering Student Travels to NASA

 

Cañada College Engineering student David Alvarez was selected to travel to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas this past April to participate in the NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars project (NCAS). David was selected as one of 240 community college students from across the U.S. to be part of NCAS.

The five-week scholars program culminated with a three-day on-site event at Johnson Space Center and offered students the opportunity to interact with NASA engineers and others as they learned about careers in Science and Engineering. While at NASA, students formed teams and established fictional companies interested in Mars exploration. Each team was responsible for developing and testing a prototype rover, forming a company infrastructure, managing a budget, and developing communications and outreach.

The on-site experience at NASA included a tour of facilities and briefings by NASA subject matter experts. NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars is a project funded in part by the Minority University Research and Education Program, or MUREP, which is committed to the recruitment of underrepresented and underserved students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to sustain a diverse workforce. 

At Cañada, David works as a tutor in the STEM Center in the courses of Physics, Engineering, Statics and Dynamics. He is a member of the Society of Hispanic and Professional Engineers (SHPE) and plans to transfer to San Jose State as an Aerospace Engineering major this Fall.

 

                                 **David is pictured on the top row, second from the right.**

What's Happening at Cañada? Week of May 18, 2015

Chris Tigno Hired as Head Volleyball Coach

Chris Tigno comes to Cañada College as the Head Coach Volleyball after eight years as the Head Varsity Coach of the San Mateo High School, where he has led the Bearcats to Central Coast Section (CCS) playoffs bids in six of his eight seasons there. Chris has also coached Club Volleyball since 2005, including most recently at the 17s level at Red Rock Volleyball Club in Redwood City.

 

Chris holds a USA Volleyball Coaching Accreditation Program certification. Chris grew up in the Bay Area, and holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University and a law degree from Cal.

Cañada College offers volleyball and conditioning classes to any interested student. All levels of fitness ability are welcome. Players interested in playing for Cañada College, please contact Chris Tigno at cbt94010@gmail.com or 650-306-3131.

 

What's Happening at Cañada? Week of May 4, 2015

 

 

Cañada Star Party - April 10, 2015

On Friday night, April 10th Cañada Astronomy hosted its Spring Star Party. After a week of gloomy weather the skies cleared just in time to entertain a dozen sky enthusiasts using the astronomy department's newly acquired small telescopes and giant binoculars. Facilities and Public Safety helped put on the event by closing off Lot 10, including temporarily shutting off its just recently installed new lights. Guests had an opportunity to look at the planet Jupiter, a few star clusters, and even a pair of galaxies. Professor Elteto was eagerly answering questions about the birth and death of stars, as well as entertain the group with tales of the constellation Orion. One enthusiast brought his younger siblings who, by the end of the night said they wanted to take astronomy classes at Cañada.

The Astronomy department hopes for clear skies again this week for Friday night's viewing for the new, budding Astronomy Club, where Cañada students will learn to use the telescopes for themselves.