The Celebrate! Innovation (ciLive! 12) annual speaker series at Des Moines Area Community College will be held virtually March 10-11 and will livestream all speaker presentations via e360tv, YouTube and Facebook Live, DMACC announced this week. This year’s presenters include a NASA analog astronaut, a leading oceanographer, a top wilderness survivalist, a classical violinist and composer, a world-renowned primatologist and wildlife correspondent for the National Geographic Channel, and Discovery Channel
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December 23, 2020
DMACC receives donation from Mercedes-Benz for automotive technology center
Mercedes-Benz USA donated a 2015 C300 vehicle and a Xentry diagnosis kit to the Des Moines Area Community College Automotive Technology program, the first donation by Mercedes-Benz, DMACC announced this week. Students will use the vehicle and diagnosis kit at the Karl Chevrolet Automotive Technology Center on the Ankeny campus, which is scheduled to open in the spring semester. The renovated expansion will add more than 60,000 square feet, new
October 7, 2020
DMACC, Microsoft to host ‘Careers 4 Women in Technology’ event on Oct. 13
DMACC and Microsoft are co-hosting a free “Careers 4 Women in Technology” virtual event available to young women interested in pursuing a career in technology, DMACC announced this week. The event will be held Oct. 13 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on the Microsoft Teams app. A panel of five women who have built careers working in technology will discuss their current positions and how they embarked on their career
May 6, 2020
DMACC to waive all online, web-blended technology fees for summer class term
Des Moines Area Community College is waiving all online and web-blended technology fees for students taking summer term classes, the college announced on Wednesday. Fees are typically $30 per credit hour for online classes and $20 per credit hour for web-blended classes. Students who have already paid for summer courses will be refunded. DMACC’s summer term begins May 26.
April 15, 2020
DMACC Boone student selected as NASA summer intern
DMACC Boone Campus student Pedro Salazar of Des Moines has been selected as a summer 2020 NASA internship recipient. Salazar, a 2015 graduate of East High School, was recently chosen to participate in the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, Calif., and in fall 2019 worked for 12 weeks at the NASA Lucy Student Pipeline Accelerator and Competency Enabler (L’SPACE) Virtual Academy. In his summer internship, Salazar will be
March 12, 2020
DMACC, Studio Iowa debut Virtual Reality Learning Lab for data center academy
Studio Iowa partner Ryan Tow demonstrates the the virtual reality data center layout designed for students at the DMACC West Campus’ Microsoft Datacenter Learning Academy. DMACC and Studio Iowa unveiled the Virtual Learning Lab on Wednesday during DMACC’s ciLive! sessions on the West Des Moines campus. Photo by Kate Hayden Data centers in Iowa are a career opportunity for students in DMACC West Des Moines’ network technology program. As a
March 5, 2020
DMACC opens VR, AR-enabled data center training lab
Des Moines Area Community College is opening a new training lab featuring virtual reality and augmented reality technologies at the West DMACC Campus Microsoft Datacenter Academy. Microsoft is providing $30,000 in funding support for the first phase of the new Virtual Learning Lab’s production. The lab will include about 200 server racks and will incorporate high-security and biometric controls that real-world data centers use, including retinal scanners and key-card. Students
January 23, 2020
DMACC, Facebook host opening ceremony for digital classroom at Ankeny campus
Facebook and Des Moines Area Community College hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new digital classroom located on DMACC’s Ankeny campus. The digital classroom is funded through a $97,000 grant from Facebook and houses technologies designed to support synchronized online learning, including a digital camera that follows instructors as they teach and Microsoft Teams functionality to record and share video conferencing to students in Iowa and across the U.S. Facebook
September 24, 2019
DMACC student accepted into NASA L’SPACE Virtual Academy
Pedro Salazar of Des Moines, a current pre-engineering student at the DMACC Boone Campus and a 2015 graduate of Des Moines East High, will join the NASA Lucy Student Pipeline Accelerator and Competency Enabler (L’SPACE) Virtual Academy during the program’s fall 2019 session. The virtual program is designed around NASA’s upcoming 2021 Lucy mission to explore Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids for the first time. Salazar will spend 12 weeks learning NASA
July 3, 2019
DMACC West Campus provost named chair of 2020 International Space Development Conference
Anthony Paustian, provost of the Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) West Campus and founder of Celebrate! Innovation Live (ciLive) at DMACC, has been named chair of the 2020 International Space Development Conference. ISDC is the annual conference of the National Space Society, bringing together leading managers, engineers, scientists, educators and business professionals from space advocacy sectors. Paustian was named chair during this year’s ISDC conference, held in Washington, D.C.
