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Experience

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Experience

The new equipment in action on the planetarium dome.

Planetarium receives new upgrade for the dome equipment

Jasmine Ford, Staff Writer
February 20, 2025

Astronomy instructors and students are excited to embark on a new adventure within the planetarium since it finally received an update in January.    “The new equipment is called a...

Los Medanos College continues their diversity programs

Koen Steers, Staff Writer
February 20, 2025

 Over the past decade or so, Los Medanos College has incorporated many diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives across campus. Rosa Armendariz, dean of the Office of Equity & Inclusion,...

Puente club co-president Guadalupe Gomez speak at the protest on the Pittsburg quad, Feb. 12.

Puente responds to nation-wide deportations on campus

Finn Atkin, Staff Writer
February 20, 2025

The Puente Club hosted a peaceful protest against mass deportation outside at the front of the Los Medanos College Pittsburg campus Outdoor Quad, Wednesday, Feb. 12, from 1 to 2 p.m.  Students...

Construction is now cleared, students and staff are free to walk.

Los Medanos’s college complex hall is now fully renovated

Finn Atkin, Staff Writer
February 7, 2025

Construction on College Complex level two is finally complete, following a multi-semester journey which started in Fall of 2023 to repair a crack in the ceiling. “The project planning started in Fall...

Image by Eric Purcell / Openverse

Los Medanos College braces for possibility of ICE raids

Darcy Meadows, Staff Writer
February 7, 2025

To finish off the first month of the New Year, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States on Jan. 20. Since his campaign’s inception, Trump’s stance on illegal immigration...

Simulation of a EMT / nursing pediatric emergency.

Los Medanos College EMT students need to retest final skill sets

Angella Dorado and Gabbie Munoz
December 9, 2024

LMC students who were a part of the Emergency Medical Technician training program between the years 2019 and 2023 were notified by Contra Costa Health Oct. 22, that they had never been eligible to receive...

Los Medanos College ranks as No. 16 in the nation for 2025

Los Medanos College ranks as No. 16 in the nation for 2025

Chijioke Onyeagucha, Staff Writer
December 5, 2024

Los Medanos College was ranked in the top two percent of all community and junior colleges nationally. Officially ranked 16th overall out of 1,026 colleges by Intelligent.com, an online magazine focused...

“Money” by free pictures of money on Openverse.

Los Medanos College opens scholarship applications

Sarah Capperauld, Staff Writer
November 22, 2024

Scholarship season is fast approaching as new opportunities await Los Medanos College students who will need to meet the Feb. 19, 2025 deadline to potentially be awarded money to help support their educational...

Members of Puente Club and participants in the documentary share their stories during panel.

“Define American” highlights immigrant voices

Ashley Reitz, Staff Writer
November 21, 2024

“[Los Medanos is] a place where diversity is not only celebrated but central to who we are,” said  Interim Vice President of Instruction A’kilah Smith. Seats were filled for the premiere...

Current LMC vice president A'kilah Smith speaking at the forum, Nov. 13.

Los Medanos College holds forum for vice president finalists to give their last remarks

Sarah Capperauld, Staff Writer
November 14, 2024

Los Medanos College brought three finalists for Vice President of Instruction to center stage. Nov. 13 for a campus-wide candidate forum in the Student Union Conference Center. Current LMC Vice President...

JD Vance and Donald Trump.

Aftermath of the 2024 U.S. presidential election

Chijioke Onyeagucha, Staff Writer
November 8, 2024

People globally are reacting to the 2024 U.S. election and its many outcomes. Elections from local to national levels were held as Americans voted on propositions and measures, congressional races, and...

Truck window smashed in during the break in, Oct. 31.

Los Medanos College experience break ins on campus

Lauren Gannod, Staff Writer
November 8, 2024

Outside the core building and tucked to the side, five groundskeeping trucks and one tractor were broken into. They sit silently at the groundskeeping lot, broken glass on the concrete. One of the steering...

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