Two nontraditional Pensacola State students helped bring back a long-gone tradition at the College.
Nursing students Jocelyn Gebhard and Derek Olford were crowned 2023 Homecoming Queen and King by PSC President Ed Meadows during halftime of the women’s basketball game against Northwest Florida State College on Wednesday, Feb. 22.
Eighteen Pensacola State College graphic design and photography students won a total of 69 ADDY Awards at the 2023 Pensacola American Advertising Federation Awards Gala held Feb. 10 at the Hilton Pensacola Beach.
The students won 26 gold and 42 silver awards. Casey DeLong won one of three Judges Awards along with two gold and six silver ADDYs. Jennifer Manare won 10 ADDYs ─ five gold and five silver awards.
Children are often asked what they want to be when they grow up. But sadly, only some of us end up working in the profession we envisioned as kids.
Well, Chris Gustin did.
“In sixth grade, we were asked what we wanted to be when we grew up,” Gustin said. “I wrote ‘pottery man.”’
There’s still time to vote for your favorite photograph in the annual Pensacola State College Sunset Photography Contest. Five PSC students have submitted 13 photos that are now on display at Jaco’s Bayfront Bar & Grille, which sponsors the contest and is a longtime supporter of the PSC Photography program.
Four Pensacola State College employees – Stephanie Denmark, Mikenzie Francis, Obi Kalu and Hailey Lotz ─ were selected InWeekly 2023 Rising Stars. Denmark is the Registrar.
Montessori School of Pensacola eighth-grader Liam Nelson recently spent four days interning in various Pensacola State College departments.
Liam, 14, worked in Institutional Research, Workday Solutions, Enterprise Solutions and the Marketing Department’s Web Team.
The Feb. 6-9 internship was part of a Montessori School program where students enter the local workforce for a few days.
Get free, expert help applying, registering, and paying for college at Pensacola State College’s Financial Aid Day from1-3 p.m. Sunday, March 5, at the Student Center, Building 5, on the Pensacola campus, 1000 College Blvd.
Ask questions, use the Computer Lab for online forms, and receive one-on-one assistance. Academic and Financial Aid counselors will be available to help new and returning students and their parents through the admissions and registration steps.
There were calls to tradition and ancestors. But there were also poignant calls for action to forge an even better future.
It was all part of the Pensacola State College Black History Celebration on Tuesday, Feb. 14, in the Delaino Student Center on the Pensacola campus. The event was hosted by the PSC African-American Student Association (AASA).
“We’re here to celebrate Black culture and Black History,’’ said Dr. Tonie Anderson-Steele, PSA AASA Faculty Advisor. Moments later, she led the crowd in a traditional libations ceremony, where gatherers called out to the spirits of ancestors. The others offered the ancestral response, “Asé,’’ which is a word of affirmation in the Yoruba language, which originated in Nigeria.
They have personalities. They have skills and talent. What they need and want, though, is your vote.
Twenty-five Pensacola State College students have self-nominated for the 2023 Homecoming Court, a vital feature of the first PSC Homecoming celebration since the 1970s. The nominees include 22 women Pirates. The top five vote-getters will make up the 2023 Homecoming Court. Only three men are self-nominated, so all will be members of the Court.
Voting ends at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17. To cast your ballot, go to https://www.pensacolastate.edu/homecoming/. The poll is open to everyone, whether they’re affiliated with the College or not.
Why not a Pensacola State College Homecoming? Why did we ever stop?
The College is bringing back some old Pirate swagger with a Homecoming 2023 celebration complete with tailgate parties, sporting events, a Homecoming Court and the crowning of a Homecoming King and Queen.
It will be the College’s first Homecoming since the 1970s when the institution was Pensacola Junior College. It became Pensacola State College in 2010.
“It’s the first time in decades, so we’re excited,’’ said Jon Stephenson, Associate Vice President of Student Affairs. “Homecoming can be an impactful event for our students to be engaged with the College and have a voice on campus. It’s to bring a little more school spirit to PSC.”
The highlight of Homecoming 2023 will be the introduction of the Pirate Homecoming Court and the coronation of the king and queen during halftime of the women’s basketball game against Northwest Florida State College on Wednesday, Feb. 22.
All active duty U.S. service members and veterans will be honored during Military Appreciation Night at Pensacola State College men and women’s basketball games against Chipola College on Feb. 15 at the Hartsell Arena on the Pensacola campus.
These athletic aerialists have wowed and thrilled audiences in China, South America and Africa.
They’ve performed halftime shows at NBA All-Star games, NCAA Final Four games and on Feb. 22 the Air Elite Dunkers will fly high in Pensacola State College’s Hartsell Arena.
The Georgia-based troupe will perform at halftime of the PSC men’s basketball homecoming basketball games against Northwest Florida State College. The women’s game starts at 5:30 p.m. while the men’s game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
There’s little doubt that the most active student organization on campus is the Pensacola State College Student Veterans Association (SVA).
You’ll see them at nearly every PSC event – from hosting tailgate cookouts at sporting events to helping organize events such as January’s Welcome Back Bash. Seriously, the College’s SVA always answers the call to duty.
Now the SVA is launching the Veteran Coffee Project to raise funds to attend the 2024 SVA NATCON Conference in Nashville Tennessee.
Moving from military life back into the civilian world can be tough for many U.S. service members.
Now, a new program at Pensacola State College will help transitioning military members – as well as veterans – learn valuable workforce skills at no cost.
The College has partnered with LIFT, a Detroit-based U.S. Department of Defense-funded national manufacturing innovation institute, to provide free training in welding and CNC – Computer Numeric Control – to transitioning military members, veterans, spouses and dependents.
Thirteen fundraising and business professionals will share their secrets for success during Pensacola State College’s 2023 Nonprofit Summit set for Friday, Feb. 10.
Hosted by the PSC Nonprofit Center for Excellence and Philanthropy, the summit’s theme is “Step Out of Your Comfort Zone into Greatness” and is set for 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. in Room 1704, Building 17, on the Pensacola campus.
Just because you’re a nursing student with mad skills doesn’t mean you have all the skills needed to enter the workforce. Do you know how to develop a resume? And that beach selfie isn’t going to work as a professional headshot.
That’s why Pensacola State College is hosting numerous events in February to develop soft job skills for Career and Technical Education Training students who are learning those hard skills at the College.
February is national Career and Technical Education Month. CTE students are those working toward an Associate in Science degree, a vocational certificate or college credit certificate. This spring, 23 percent of PSC students are CTE students.
Get free, expert help applying, registering, and paying for college at Pensacola State College’s Financial Aid Day from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, March 5, at the Student Center, Building 5, on the Pensacola campus, 1000 College Blvd.
Ask questions, use the Computer Lab for online forms, and receive one-on-one assistance. Academic and Financial Aid counselors will be available to help new and returning students and their parents through the admissions and registration steps.
Joe Diamond is very familiar with the Pensacola State College classroom that is now named for his mother – Dr. Marie M. Diamond.
He used to teach in the room. In fact, Diamond ─ the program director for Pensacola State College from 1980 to 2009 ─ taught his mother in Room 3702, now known as the Dr. Marie M. Diamond EMT and Paramedic Classroom, located in Building 3700 on the Warrington campus.
“She would talk a lot,’’ Joe Diamond said of the experience of teaching his own mother. “Please be quiet, Mrs. Diamond. Please be quiet, Mrs. Diamond. Mother, be quiet!”
He laughed.
In the 1930s, New York artist, explorer and adventurer Rockwell Kent sailed to Greenland and lived there for several years, documenting the majestic landscape and the strong, industrious Inuit people who lived there.
In 2016, New York artist Denis Defibaugh spent more than a year in Greenland, visiting the same coastal communities that Kent did more than 80 years earlier.
Defibaugh’s celebrated photographic exhibition of the journey, “North by Nuuk: Greenland After Rockwell Kent,” is now on display in the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts on Pensacola State College’s Pensacola campus.
The exhibition runs through March 10. An artist lecture and reception were held on Jan. 26.
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