A DEL MAR COLLEGE STUDENT PUBLICATION
ExxonMobil’s Venture Executive Paul Guilfoyle (left) and Del Mar President Mark Escamilla speak about new hands-on training opportunities students will have. Students can look forward to virtual reality training as one of the new digital technologies being provided.
DMC hosts social media conference As businesses and marketing strategies continue to change, people are beginning to realize the power of social media. Del Mar College partnered with SCORE Corpus Christi to host a “social media bootcamp” in the Center for Economic Development on Sept. 11. Ashley Arevalo and Roque DeLeon from Midnight Island Consulting Agency talked about how to create profitable Facebook ads, use chatbots to drive sales and find social media time savers in their main topic presentation, “The Secrets to Targeting the Perfect Audience.” Lauren Perkins Underwood from Inspiring Social told those in attendance how to save…
Del Mar receives donation to help aviation program The donation of a half-million dollar plane could be the ticket to more hands-on training for Del Mar’s aviation maintenance students. Rockport native Toby Knocke flew the Dassault Falcon 10 to Corpus Christi International Airport on Aug. 21 to donate to the college’s aviation program. It will be housed at the program’s hangar at the airport. The owners of the plane, who live in Corpus Christi, no longer needed it and wanted it to go to a good cause. “Why not donate it to someone in our community?” Knocke said. Aviation instructor…
Students attend Prefreshman Engineering Program As Henry Stanley and Teddy Trevino watched their robot car approach the finish line, they had faith their last-minute programming changes would keep in on course. The pair, along with 50 other middle and high school students from the Coastal Bend, attended the seven-week Corpus Christi Prefreshman Engineering Program summer camp at Del Mar College “I was very proud of it because even though it didn’t make it the first or second attempts, it made it at the third attempt,” said Henry, a Flour Bluff student who hopes to go into a STEM-related career. “Me…
Races, other challenges part of summer camp As Henry Stanley and Teddy Trevino watched their robot car approach the finish line, they had faith their last-minute programming changes would keep in on course. The pair, along with 50 other middle and high school students from the Coastal Bend, attended the seven-week Corpus Christi Prefreshman Engineering Program summer camp at Del Mar College “I was very proud of it because even though it didn’t make it the first or second attempts, it made it at the third attempt,” said Henry, a Flour Bluff student who hopes to go into a STEM-related…
