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  By Isaac C Klein DMACC Honors Student Guest Columnist             Very often students will study for a degree in college they do not enjoy, and they don’t find out until late in the game.  They will then either reroll their degree and accumulate debt, or they will continue instead of starting over and be […]

By Jared Neal Guest Columnist “Making the world more connected” sounds uplifting, but all good things come with a catch. Social media is making us feel depressed. And it is up to you to do something about it. I am no stranger to technology. I was born in 1995, where the line between millennial and […]

By Adam Kraft Guest Columnist Public libraries. You likely have some fond memories from your childhood going to a public library and seeing all of the books there. Some of you might go to a library often, while others haven’t gone for years. If I were you, however, I’d go to one now before they […]

UPDATED 9/29/17: Video from the event! Check it out. JKR By Tanner Wasson On Friday September 22nd DMACC Boone will be hosting the 22 pushup challenge, for the “In My Boots Fundraiser”.  Participants will be meeting in the Courter Center to do pushups, instructed by Professor Taylor. When asked about it’s importance, Professor Taylor replied,”It […]

https://youtu.be/Dh9jXpCrNhs I had the pleasure to interview a young man about his version of the Wild West game. Mr. Aiden Smith is 9 years old. while trying to find someone to work the camera for the interview his younger brother Action Jackson Smith asked if he could run the camera. Since starting back to school […]

The Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) cross country team came away with a fourth-place finish in the Viking Invitational Sept. 15 at Pleasant Hill. Simpson College took the team championship with 20 points and DMACC scored 91 points in finishing fourth. Sara Hendrickson of the Grand View Alumni won the individual championship with a […]

The Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) volleyball team won three of four matches in the Topper’s Pizza Yellowjacket Invitational Sept. 15 and 16 at Rochester, Minn. The Bears, ranked 20th in the most recent Division II poll from the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), defeated Bismarck State College (BSC) and lost to Madison […]

By Mia Wang Thanks to developments in science and information technology the key components have become smaller, faster, and more powerful. An important factor in designing and manufacturing drones is weight and aerodynamics. With the developments battery technology drones are able to have a longer battery life without sacrificing having to carry a heavy battery. […]

Sophomore Jaime Bellingham of Auckland, New Zealand, took medalist honors with a six-over-par 72 to lead the Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) women’s golf team to a second-place finish in the Morningside Spring Invite September 11 at Sioux City.   Briar Cliff University took the team championship with 328 strokes and DMACC tallied 361 […]

By Mia Wang, Dalton Patterson Known for being a Railroad Town, Boone celebrates Pufferbilly Days the first weekend after Labor Day each year. The celebration is rated as one of the top five celebrations in Iowa with over 30,000 people every year. For DMACC students, the parade will be Saturday, Sept. 9 at 9 a.m. […]