Student Profiles
Student Profiles | 04/18/2018
Dual enrollment program sparked high school buddies to embrace welding
When Alyssa Shepherd and Christopher Newbill graduate from Wilson High School in June, they will have a credential in hand and a leg up on a promising...
Student Profiles | 04/04/2018
47th Annual Student Art and Design Exhibition award winners
Tidewater Community College’s Visual Arts Center (VAC) held its 47th Annual Student Art and Design Exhibition awards ceremony on March 31. Students...
Student Profiles | 03/14/2018
Meet the photographer with an epic beard who’s soon to be a TCC grad
After 12 years in the Navy, Jeff Heiser tried his hand at “a real person’s job” working as a field service engineer. He hated it, realizing he...
Student Profiles | 03/07/2018
Tidewater Community College’s Zach Steinmiller is taking distance learning to a whole new level. As a diesel mechanic working toward his Associate...
Student Profiles | 02/22/2018
The bzzzzzz on the fun of engineering from one of TCC’s own
In case you haven’t heard the buzz, it’s National Engineers Week, a seven-day celebration of all that engineers do to make our world a better place....
Student Profiles | 02/15/2018
MLK Scholarship winner all about giving back to his campus and community
Johvanny Torres makes it his mission to help, whether getting a stranded motorist on the road, explaining a computer error message to a struggling student...
Student Profiles | 12/19/2017
Saluting TCC grads and the military at 65th Commencement Exercises
One week before Christmas, Tidewater Community College celebrated its graduates along with a military milestone at the Ted Constant Convocation Center....
Student Profiles | 12/18/2017
She had a brain injury. Now military vet has a college degree and a future in engineering
Jessica Evans knows what it’s like to fall asleep on a park bench and to hear the words “traumatic brain injury” applied to her. On Dec. 18, she’ll...
Student Profiles | 12/15/2017
Walking the stage is bittersweet after 17-year journey
Three different types of cancer, homelessness and raising children, including four who aren’t her own, didn’t prevent Geneva Lawton from attaining...
Student Profiles | 12/14/2017
First-generation grad enjoys setting up other students for success
Money was an object when Travis Ward realized he wanted more than just a job in materials handling. The 2003 Landstown High School graduate researched...