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There are gingerbread houses, and then there are winning gingerbread houses.

Four members of the Houston Community College Board of Trustees have been appointed to prominent committees of the Association of Community College Trustees. The association represents 6,500 elected and appointed trustees who govern more than 1,200 two-year colleges in the nation.

As a young boy, Tony Nguyen watched his mother prepare a smorgasbord of Vietnamese foods each day, everything from steamed rice to caramelized fish in a clay pot, to sizzling pancakes and other staple dishes.

In recognition of Texas Governor Greg Abbott's executive order, Houston Community College will join in an official day of mourning Dec. 5 to honor former President George H.W. Bush.

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has selected the Houston Community College Weekend College for the 2018 Star Award.

Few things embody the holidays more than a spectacular gingerbread house with their intrinsic, whimsical beauty, their colorful decorations. their surprising uses of candy and, of course, all that soft, delicious gingerbread.

On November 1, the HCC Libraries launched Eagle Library Search. Eagle Library Search, or ELS for short, is a search tool that allows you to search the majority of the library's physical and electronic resources simultaneously along with additional sources such as Research Guides, Library information, HCC program information, and scholarly open access resources.

Elijah Barnes, an employee in the oil and gas industry, was looking for an opportunity to take his career to the next level. Although he completed a bachelor’s degree from a local university and had industry experience as a field operator as well as offshore, he desired to be a process operator and knew that more training was required.

The Houston Community College Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence will hold its first annual holiday build-a-bike event Friday, Nov. 30. Faculty, students and staff will assemble bicycles for distribution to a local foster care organization. The event is being held in partnership with Together We Rise, a non-profit organization that aims to change the way kids experience foster care.

Six HCC Hispanic engineering students, along with engineering professor June Keller, attended the annual Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) national convention from Nov. 7-11 in Cleveland, Ohio.