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NCCC Lends Helping Hand at Scattergood Friends School and Coralville Lake

  By: Holly Elder and Megan Richards    AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) Oak 3 is helping staff at Scattergood Friends School and the U.S. Army Corps ...

Elise Healzer chosen to attend conference

  Iowa N.E.W. Leadership is an intensive 5-day residential institute designed to empower women and increase the participation of underrepresented groups in all sectors of leadership. The I...

Aaron Koppen Named to Spring 2011 President's List at LeTourneau University

  Aaron Koppen of Shellsburg, Iowa, was named to the Spring 2011 President's List at LeTourneau University. Koppen achieved a perfect 4.0 grade point aver...

AmeriCorps NCCC Corps Member Spotlight - Brittany Bergstrom

Brittany Bergstrom   Name: Brittany Bergstrom Hometown: Bethel, CT NCCC Team: Cedar 2   Brittany graduated from Westfield High School in 2007, then went to Western C...

AmeriCorps NCCC Takes Out the Invaders

  By: Alex Johnson   A team of AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) members is assisting YMCA Storer Camps on a variety of projects for eight weeks between Mar...

AmeriCorps NCCC Goes to Camp

Kim Vegliante cuts up some wood   By: Kristy Hawes   The AmeriCorps NCCC team, Oak Seven is working at Camp Helen Brachman in Almond, Wisconsin from May 5 to June 30. The team is doing a number of maintenan...

NCCC Maple 4 Painting at Vinton Community Pool

Maple 4 members Gaby Nieves & Gregory Day paint the Vinton pool's trim.  By Gaby Nieves & Phil Schaefer      AmeriCorps NCCC team Maple 4 is painting the Vinton community pool this week.  The paint for the pool is a two-part pa...

CPU students hope to jump into Guiness Book of World Records

Members of the CPU Biology Club helped organize the effort to set a world jumping jacks record.      Led by the High School Biology Club and high school teacher DeEtta Andersen, the Center Point Urbana School District tried to set a new world record Wednesday afternoon. &nb...

NCCC Dinosaurs stomp around Vinton‏

Maple 4 team left to right : Gaby, Darcy, Hillary, Christina, Diana, Phil, Drew, Sam and Greg   NCCC Dinosaurs stomp around Vinton  By: Phil and Gaby An AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) team is nesting right here in Vinton for the next eight weeks. T...

AmeriCorps NCCC Corps Member Spotlight - Sarah Moffitt

  Name: Sarah Moffitt Hometown: South Kingstown, RI NCCC Team: Oak 7   Sarah graduated from The Prout School in 2010.  She considers her greatest s...