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What’s your favorite app?

Male and female looking at apps on cell phone

Recent statistics tell us there are more than a billion tablets and smartphones in use today using mobile apps. The mobile market’s thirst for for new and better apps just continues to grow. How often have you heard the response “there is an app for that” from someone? Maybe it is that you made the comment or asked a question like:
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May 25, 2016by Tammy Freund
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Achievement, Health Careers & Wellness

Pinning! Congratulations, nursing graduate Class of 2016!

Moraine Park pinning of Nursing graduates

On Friday, May 20, 2016, nursing graduates of Class 2016 held an age-old tradition: a “Pinning Ceremony,” where nurses and nursing faculty welcome new graduates into the profession.

This tradition dates back to the time of the Maltese Cross, when Crusaders wore the cross as a symbol of service to Christianity. With influence from Florence Nightengale, the school at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London awarded a Maltese Cross to nurses as they completed their nursing program.
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May 25, 2016by Andrea Dobogai
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Achievement, Alumni, Student Life, Student Services & Support

The sky is not the limit …

Female Moraine Park student adjusting motorboard on fellow classmate at graduation

The scene told many stories as roughly 350 Moraine Park Technical College students walked up to the commencement stage on Saturday, May 21, soaked in the moment, and one-by-one wrapped their hands around a diploma – their diploma.

Relief. Pride. Validation. Fulfillment. Gratitude. Pure, unbridled joy.  These emotions and more were readily on display at Moraine Park’s 2016 Commencement Ceremony in the Fond du Lac High School Field House. But amidst an eclectic mix of smiles and tears – whether seen on the faces of those on stage or from proud family members watching on – there was one unifying truth to connect all these journeys.
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May 25, 2016by Andrew Pantzlaff
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Achievement, Trades

They turned a pile of junk into what???

Male Welding student welding steel at Junkyard Challenge

Slowly, serenely and quietly. The hour hand spun  around the clock three times. Meanwhile, with frantic precision and loud jolts of noise, the hands of creative high school students transformed piles of scrap metal into works of art at Moraine Park Technical College’s 13th annual Junkyard Challenge on May 12.

Sixteen students from Fond du Lac, Lomira, Mayville and Slinger high schools came to the College’s Fond du Lac campus for the event, where they had just three hours to turn random scraps of metal and structural material into elaborate welded creations – and did they ever.
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May 25, 2016by Andrew Pantzlaff
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