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Welding Students Create a Table from Scraps
Welding Students Create a Table from Scraps

Students in our welding program combined their welding skills with their creativityy to build a table from old farm equipment and scraps.  
This is just one of the ways you learn at RCC....by doing!  
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The Welding Program at Rockford Career College Fuses Compassion and Skill while Warming Hearts
The Welding Program at Rockford Career College Fuses Compassion and Skill while Warming Hearts

It’s no secret that the Rockford-area has many homeless individuals out there on the streets. Anywhere you choose to travel downtown Rockford, you are guaranteed to see at least one, but more than likely multiple, people in a small radius. In fact, we have some homeless people living right outside of Rockford Community College’s walls. With a skate park nearby and many businesses surrounding the area, we are located in a spot where someone without shelter is able to be covered.

 
But it’s getting cold out.

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The Benefits To Studying Online

The skyrocketing cost of tuition across the country is making it more and more difficult for students to obtain a “traditional” education: one earned by travelling to a brick and mortar university and attending regular classes every day. The crisis of student loan debt in our country right now is leaving potential students gun shy of the burden, although it is often necessary to take out loans in order to attend a traditional college.
 

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What is a Medical Assistant?
What is a Medical Assistant?

This is your chance to be a part of something big every single day.
In every operation, you have the worker bees who support the main event. You have the cameramen who film the talent, the assistants who schedule every appointment and the maintenance workers who keep functionality a priority. These are the ones who carry a huge part of the process but aren’t quite as recognizable as the famous actors, the remarkable physicians or the talented athletes.
In the medical field, you have the same kind of workers. The ones who are vital to operations and procedures but who are underestimated in the entire process. For example, medical assistants.  

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HVACR and Residential, Commercial, and Industrial Applications
HVACR and Residential, Commercial, and Industrial Applications

Studying HVACR opens students to a wide range of careers after graduation. HVACR (heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration) is a crucial element of our human comfort and every home across the country uses this technology to some degree or another. But beyond residential uses, HVACR is a critical element of society, from the way that food is safely stored before sale to the needs of a hospital or medical research lab. Even a manufacturing facility requires careful ventilation within the factory.
 

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