Tiger Talk Podcast by Northeast Mississippi Community College

In this thirty-third (33rd) episode of the TigerTalk Podcast by Northeast Mississippi Community College, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes "The Improv Lady" Rebecca Stockley from San Francisco, California to the podcast as she recounts her visit back to the Mobile Learning Conference. Stockley brought the world of communication to the conference by helping educators find ways to communicate with their students and different ways to make learning fun. Stockley, who has worked with major studios such as PIXAR, taught educators about "Yes and..." "Yes but..." and "No" answers and how to incorporate improvisation in the classroom. Northeast's Construction Engineering Technology instructor Ray Gaillard visits the podcast to tell about his programs, the requirements and the internship that is required for the CET program at Northeast. With Gaillard's instruction, students are able to obtain many certifications that will benefit them on a job site including leaving Northeast with their crane operator license and an OSHA-30 certificate. Kenny Paul Geno gives us a report on what is happening not only on the Northeast at Booneville campus in his weekly roundup.

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

In this thirty-second (32nd) episode of the TigerTalk Podcast by Northeast Mississippi Community College, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes the Northeast director of bands and percussion instructor Bryan Mitchell back to the podcast to give us a look at the 36th annual Northeast Mississippi Community College Summer Band camp that has brought over 500 individuals to campus this week in the form of participants, band directors, students and alumni as they all come together to make Northeast an enriching and enchanting experience. In addition to Mitchell's report on the band camp, Greg Hardin and Jerry Palmer make a stop by the podcast to give us a look at one of the college's career technical programs -- automotive mechanics and automotive services technology program -- as the duo talks about the requirements for the programs and how recent college graduates have gone on to acquire high-paying jobs with just two years of training from Northeast. Kenny Paul Geno gives us a report on what is happening not only on the Northeast at Booneville campus but the Northeast at Corinth campus as well in his weekly roundup.

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

In this thirty-first (31st) episode of the TigerTalk Podcast by Northeast Mississippi Community College, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes the college's heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) instructor Russ Bullard to the podcast as Bullard talks about his program, some of his alumni and gives some tips on how to cut the cost of those summer heating bills. Producer/Sound Engineer Michael H. Miller makes his debut in the narrator's chair as he interviews NEMCC English instructor Amanda Garvin about one of the programs that she is involved with -- the Prison Writes Initiative - and its upcoming graduation at the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility in Corinth. Kenny Paul Geno returns to the podcast after a two-week absence to give listeners an update on what all is going on at Northeast during the first week of June.

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

We have reached the BIG 3-0 on the TigerTalk Podcast and we thank each and every one of you for being our faithful listeners since October. In this milestone podcast, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes listeners to the thirtieth (30th) edition of the TigerTalk podcast with Northeast's diesel mechanics instructor Jonathan Alexander, who talks about the need for career technical education students and the current job openings in the state and the nation where they are currently experiencing a shortage of workers. Alexander also gives us a brief look at the HEADS 2018 career tech fair that will be coming up on October 11 from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. on the NEMCC Booneville campus that is geared toward students in grades 7-12 to help introduce them to career technical occupations. We will talk more about the HEADS 2018 conference in later TigerTalks. In addition to Alexander's interview, Sports Information Director Blake Long joins the podcast to recap the athletic year in review and also talks about all the summer camps that will be happening on campus including baseball camp which started today (May 29) at Harold T. White Field.

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

Host Will Kollmeyer welcomes listeners to the twenty-ninth edition of the TigerTalk podcast with the college's outgoing athletic director Kent Farris as Farris discusses the success of the Tiger and Lady Tiger athletic programs during the 2017-18 academic year. Farris touches on football, men and women's basketball, cheerleading, baseball and softball and highlights the success that each program has brought to the college. With his announced retirement, Farris looks back on his years at Northeast as a coach and then athletic director and talks about the upcoming selection of the college's Sports Hall of Fame class. Apple Distinguished Educator and technology specialist Jeffrey Powell stops by the podcast studios for a look at the tenth anniversary of the Mobile Learning Conference and discusses how the conference has changed -- the conference has been around longer than the iPad. Powell gives insight into the keynote for the conference -- Rebecca Stockley, who is known as The Improv Lady and who has served as a consultant to Lucasfilms and PIXAR animation studios. Title IX coordinator, recruiter and career development academy project manager Beth Benson wraps up our twenty-ninth podcast by telling listeners about the CDA and all its plans such as six camps during the summer including a health and wellness camp, a career exploration camp, a STEM camp, a Tiger Tech camp, a reading and theatre camp and finally an art camp to wrap up the summer. Northeast's Career Development Academy is aimed at students 12-18 and will be expanding its presence in the fall into Union and Alcorn counties. Alas, this podcast marks the first time that Kenny Paul Geno does not give us his weekly spotlight of what is coming up at Northeast.

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

Host Will Kollmeyer welcomes listeners to the twenty-eighth edition of the TigerTalk podcast with the college's director of the counseling center Joey Williford who talks about people and changes. Williford first addresses changes to the Summer Orientation schedule -- instead of one/two or three big sessions, we will see a maximum of 100 students for Orientation each Tuesday throughout the summer (with the exception of July 4th week) to help suit the students' needs at Orientation. Willford also addresses the changes between the Counseling Center and the Financial Aid department where the two office spaces have swapped locations to help better serve the students. Northeast at Corinth counselor Ronnie Sweeney joins Kollmeyer to talk about a unique program at the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility where the college offers credit to inmates to help rehabilitate them and drop the recidivism rate in Mississippi. As always, Kenny Paul Geno gives us his weekly spotlight of what is coming up at Northeast in this twenty-eighth edition of the TigerTalk podcast.

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

Host Will Kollmeyer welcomes listeners to the twenty-seventh edition of the TigerTalk podcast with the college's executive vice-president Craig-Ellis Sasser as Sasser talks about his recent national speaking engagements to promote the college and everything that is doing along with a large speaking engagement in the fall where he will team with Chris Murphy to promote the college to some of the nation's top college business officers. Sasser touches on the iPad initiative that Northeast is one of the top colleges in the nation to embrace and free textbooks and how it will affect the college's bottom line. Sasser retells the story of one of his national trips where a high-ranking member of the Apple administration singled Northeast out for what it is doing with technology. With graduation and orientation coming up in the next few weeks, the executive vice president gives his views on what to expect from those two events. Newly-elected Student Government Association president Weston Coggin of Booneville sits down for his official interview as he talks about the previous year with SGA where he served as a representative and what events were a success and gives his goals for the upcoming year under his leadership. Coggin, a nursing major at NEMCC, also talks about time management as being part of the nursing program at Northeast and gives insights into becoming a lifeguard at the Gaye Roden Carr Aquatic Center, swimming lessons and water aerobics -- all at the aquatic center this summer. As always, Kenny Paul Geno gives us his weekly spotlight of what is coming up at Northeast in this twenty-seventh edition of the TigerTalk podcast.

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

Host Will Kollmeyer welcomes listeners to the twenty-sixth edition of the TigerTalk podcast and with it being finals week at the college, this week's TigerTalk is under 19 minutes to give Northeast employees and students a chance to take a nice break from studying and grading exams to keep up with what has been going on around the college. Kollmeyer welcomes Northeast's Vice President of Instruction Michelle Baragona and NEMCC Technology Specialist and resident Apple Distinguished Educator Jeffrey Powell to the podcast as the duo talks about the Top 10 ranking that the college received last week when it was named one of the Top 10 digital schools in the nation. Adult Basic Education instructor Rachel Norman stops by with her student success story Brianna Cruz. Norman talks about how someone can enroll in SMART Start and High School Equivalency courses at Northeast while Cruz embraces the Northeast Family by speaking about her and her husband's time in the HSE program and the positive impact that Northeast has had on both their lives. As always, Kenny Paul Geno gives us his weekly spotlight of what is coming up at Northeast in this twenty-sixth edition of the TigerTalk podcast.

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

Host Will Kollmeyer welcomes listeners to the twenty-fifth edition of the TigerTalk podcast with head football coach Greg Davis as he talks about the Tiger football team and how it progressed during recent spring drills. Davis also introduces listeners to one of the newest members of the NEMCC Family -- defensive coordinator Paige Anders and how he has changed the mindset of the Tiger defense. In addition to talking about summer drills in June and the upcoming season where Northeast travels to Southwest Mississippi in Summit on Thursday, August 30, Davis gives us an interesting look at one of the program's biggest fund-raisers -- the Northeast Tiger football golf tournament which will be held at Hillandale Country Club in Corinth on Friday, May 4. Culinary Arts instructor Christy Grissom and culinary arts and hotel/restaurant management double major Grace Garton stop in to talk about Collegiate DECA and Garton's recent win at the international competition in Washington, D.C. Garton teamed with other DECA representatives from Utah, Minnesota and Michigan to take home the top prize at the Management Institute and in addition to receiving a cash award, she will also receive an all-inclusive paid trip to Las Vegas and a chance to interview with the program's sponsor PiperJaffray. Kollmeyer also welcomes a pair of social work majors to TigerTalk when freshman Laurie Gaines of Glen and sophomore Brooke Southern of Michie, Tenn., talk about their experience with Stephanie Freese's biology class which took time to teach biology and other insightful lessons to kindergartners at Anderson Elementary School here in Booneville. As always, Kenny Paul Geno gives us his weekly spotlight of what is coming up at Northeast in this twenty-fifth edition of the TigerTalk podcast.

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

Host Will Kollmeyer welcomes listeners to the twenty-fourth edition of the TigerTalk podcast with Northeast political science/history instructor and president of the NEMCC Faculty Association Will Bowlin, who talks about the upcoming presentation by U.S. Representative Trent Kelly on Monday, April 23, the role of the Faculty Association and how Northeast’s iPad experience has transformed the classroom for faculty. Northeast transition specialist and SMART start coordinator Charlie Smart stops by with one of his success stories — Darren Sparks of Iuka — as Smart talks about the upcoming High School Equivalency (HSE) graduation on Monday, May 14, the two FREE short-term career pathways programs (a business pathway and a medical pathway program) and Sparks addresses what made him take the alternate route via the HSE after suffering a sports injury in high school. Sparks has become a success story after completing his HSE, he has enrolled full-time at Northeast and wants to be an art teacher. In one of our largest interviews in TigerTalk history, eight members from the Division of Health Sciences join us in the form of Division Head of Health Sciences Patti Cooper, program director for the Associate Degree Nursing Camille Beals, registered dental hygienist and faculty member for dental hygiene technology program Julie Davidson, Medical Assisting program director Vickie Hopkins, clinical coordinator of the Medical Laboratory Technology program Rosalyn Singleton, program director of the Practical Nursing Education program Dr. Paula Stennett, program director for the Radiologic Technology program Jennifer Davis and director of the Respiratory Care Technology program Beverly Prince all join us to talk about their programs. As always, Kenny Paul Geno gives us his weekly spotlight of what is coming up at Northeast in this twenty-third edition of the TigerTalk podcast.

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.