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It’s a busy week for the Street Teams; a quick turnaround from the Explore U.0 Event to the Meridian Speedway for more racing! The CWI Professional Truck Driving program will be leading the CWI pack this weekend with the Street Stock Class. However all programs and opportunities will be...
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CWI’s Street Team returns to campus this Wednesday for the Explore CWI event. The Street Team has been busy handing out hundreds of invitations to the community at all of the recent events and they are looking forward to seeing some familiar faces. With all of the conversations about...
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The College of Western Idaho’s President, Bert Glandon, threw the first pitch of the night with the Street Team pitching free gifts to the crowd throughout the night at the Boise Hawks game against Everett’s Aquasox. The Hawks provided some early excitement but failed to find...
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This Saturday (July 11), is the annual Bogus Basin star party, at the Nordic Lodge at Bogus Basin Ski Resort. The event commences at 7 p.m. with solar viewing (using CWI’s solar telescope amongst others) until around 9 p.m. In the darkening twilight, Venus and Jupiter will make...
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Street Teams lead off in perfect position at the ball park this week! Thursday will kick off a five-game home stand for the Boise Hawks against the Northwest League’s North Division leading Everett AquaSox with CWI’s President Bert Glandon throwing out the first pitch of the night!...
![CWI's Beach Balls Soar Over Festival Crowd](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/img_1693.jpg?itok=Z4Jo0xcS×tamp=1571176478)
The 2015 Boise Music Festival was hot, hot, hot with the best music Boise has seen since the River Festival line ups! It was triple digit heat but music lovers turned out by the thousands to enjoy the variety of music. CWI’s Street Teams were right in the middle of all the fun sharing...
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The Boise Music Festival is turning up the heat with some big names in music at Expo Idaho June 27th with Shaggy, Gloriana, Nick Jonas and, Rob Thomas. Six stages round up every music genre, the carnival is back and, new this year is a kid zone, including a Family Variety stage; truly...
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The Meridian Dairy Days opened at the Speedway with CWI Night and the Horticulture Street Team was part of the action!
With temperatures rising, the carnival all set and Dairy Days ready to begin, the event kicked off with kid’s bike races followed by the evening's racing....
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The Summer is off to a hot start and the CWI Street Teams are looking forward to another fun summer of community events! Be sure to look for the Art, Horticulture, Media and Exercise Health Science clubs sporting their neon orange, green, yellow, and pink shirts out and about at the events...
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College of Western Idaho (CWI) is proud to sponsor the second annual Hispanic Healthcare + Manufacturing Conference hosted at Northwest Nazarene University, April 18. CWI students interested in connecting with Latino professionals in the healthcare and engineering fields are invited to attend...
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Last month students from CWI’s Phlebotomy program volunteered at the Mountain Home Health and Wellness Day.
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The College of Western Idaho’s Center for Invertebrate Science is pleased to welcome two new faculty affiliates. Assistant Professors Hollie Leavitt and Dusty Perkins both joined the Center in 2014 and are already contributing to our students’ success through new projects.
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College of Western Idaho (CWI) Student Enrichment is excited to present Declare Your Major Week, Oct. 27-31, to assist students who are still uncertain about their major and/or career. Advisors will be available to talk with students from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.:
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CWI is pleased to announce October Staff of the Month has been awarded to Rob Healea.
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Horticulture Club is heading up Rake Up Boise/Nampa on Saturday, November 15. If you are an interested student please register here!
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Students with the College of Western Idaho Art Club spent the day in creative bliss at the Nampa Festival of Art event August 9 and 10. First thing in the morning, Amanda Richards, Brittany Bishop and, Teresa Gonzalez all gathered in the rose garden at Lakeview Park in Nampa to judge entries for...
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CWI Building Facilitator/Security, Peter Stott, has been named Staff of the Month for August.
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College of Western Idaho student clubs “Pigged Out on Family Fun” at the Canyon County Fair this past Saturday, July 26. The Art Club started the afternoon by admiring the art on display and judging the craft submissions. Before the heat of the day set in, the 4-H members and their...