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BRTC Student Affairs hosted drop-ins in Pocahontas and Paragould for the grand opening of the eSports areas. In Paragould, the area is located inside the new Coffee Shop featuring Starbucks coffee.In Pocahontas, the arena and practice room are located in Farmers and Merchants Lounge near the new Coffee Shop featuring Starbucks coffee inside the Richard Gaines Technology Center.Both rooms feature Lenovo Legion gaming computers specifically built for online and local gaming. Students…

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BRTC science instructor Justin Stewart used the BRTC fire tower to engage students in practical experiments and demonstrate Italian scientist Galileo Galilei’s terminal velocity, the four forces of flight, and the three laws of motion equations.Utilizing the BRTC fire tower on the Pocahontas campus, Instructor Stewart and his students dropped various objects from the three exterior platforms to obtain measurements. They discussed how to use time to calculate the actual acceleration of…

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BRTC will be hosting a flu and COVID vaccination clinic on Wednesday, Oct. 5 from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m..This FREE event will be held in the Randolph County Development Center (RCDC) and is open to the public. No registration is necessary. Those with insurance are asked to bring their insurance cards.For more information about BRTC’s allied health programs, visit https://blackrivertech.org/academics/allied-health

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Photo SubmittedPictured, from left, are Jagger Wigginton, Zach Fairchild, Fernanda Morales, Nick Wofford, Trinity Hallmark, Garrett Miles, Kinzie Williams, Kadence O’Neal, and Ali Lewis. “Dwayne Johnson: A Rock Exhibit” is the latest exhibit in the BRTC student-led Mini-Museum’s Cabinet of Curiosities on the Paragould campus.Two of Dr. Dianna Fraley’s classes, U.S. History since 1876 and World Civilization since 1660, participated in creating and curating the exhibit. The students researched a variety of…

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George Jared Black River Technical College will begin hosting the First Horizon Bank Lecture series on April 12, 2022. True crime author and award-winning investigative journalist, George Jared, will be the first guest lecturer in the series. Jared will speak in the RCDC auditorium at 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m.. The series is free and open to the public.  Jared has written two, true-crime books, Witches in West Memphis: The West Memphis…

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