Honors students at Northeast Texas Community College recently traveled to Fort Worth for the program?s 21^st semester day trip. The fall experience included stops at Starbucks, the Fort Worth Zoo, the Woodshed Smokehouse, the Fort Worth Cultural district museums, the Botanical Garden and Tarrant County College. These free trips, through the ongoing support of Drs. Jim and Paula Archer and other friends of NTCC, have become a standard feature of the honors program since 2008.

Those attending the trip (top to right and down to right) were Dr.

Northeast Texas Community College Presidential Scholar, Alicia Marie Cantrell, has won the 2017†Dr. Jerry Wesson†Award.†This $200 prize, supported by an anonymous donor, commemorates the leadership and initiative of Wesson, an award-winning educator, writer, and facilitator of educational opportunities at NTCC.

The Northeast Texas Community College Culinary Arts Program will host a special Thursday Night Dinner on Oct. 26.† The dinner will be held at the NTCC Culinary School in historic downtown Pittsburg and is open to the public.

The menu for the evening will include bacon-wrapped stuffed meatloaf with rosemary roasted potatoes and country green beans with yeast rolls and a dessert to be determined.

Tickets go on sale Thursday, Oct. 12. Due to high demand at previous events, the Culinary Arts Program has moved to a ticketed event rather than first-come-first-served.

The Small Business Development Center will host a Business Credit Workshop Wednesday, Oct. 18. The event will be held in two locations - Mount Pleasant at 9 a.m. and Texarkana at 1 p.m. Information is included in a flier below. Please call 903-434-8237 for more information.

Northeast Texas Community College recently hosted its annual Northeast Texas Poetry Contest. Adriana Rodriguez won the student category ($400) and long-term winner Angela Wylie took top honors ($200) in the adult category.

The Northeast Texas Community College†Art†Department will host its second art exhibit†of the 2017-2018 school year October 2- 27 in the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing†Arts. The show, ?Crystal & Glass?, will feature watercolors by†artist Mollie Jones.†A reception with the†artist will be held Thursday, October 5 at 12:30 p.m. in the Whatley Center foyer.

NTCC students, faculty and staff are invited to†this†upcoming PLACE lecture hosted by Texas A&M University-Texarkana on our campus. Pizza and drinks will be served!

Congratulations to our number #1 recruiter and advisor for A&M-Texarkana at NTCC, Ms. Jennifer Perez for being selected A&M-Texarkana's Employee of the Month! Way to go JP!! We appreciate all that you do. A&M-Texarkana's Staff Council personally delivered her award on the NTCC campus.

Join the Carroll Shelby Automotive Technology department as it hosts a Fall Open House and Shelby A/P Race Team send off event Saturday, Sept. 30 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Northeast Texas Community College Honors Program is pleased to announce its Honors Students for the 2017-2018 school year. This includes nine Presidential Scholars and 12 Honors Scholars.