For Alondra Rodriguez-Patino, that magical moment came when she made her own Halloween costume.
âMy mom was the driving force in that situation, because when she was younger she used to make clothes,â Rodriguez-Patino said. âThat was when I caught the fashion bug, and it evolved into me making my own clothes and applying to the Academy of Art. That was when I realized I was more driven to make it as a designer than I ever even realized.
The Western Nevada College student is graduating this week with an Associate of Science degree. She had been accepted to attend the Academy of Art University in San Francisco along with being awarded an Emerging Artist Scholarship. But her plans changed, like many undergrads and graduates before her.
Western Nevada College students prepare a high altitude balloon for its launch on Dec. 4 at Jack C. Davis Observatory.
While most students across the country have been learning online this fall because of the coronavirus, a group of students at Western Nevada College (WNC) took advantage of an exciting hands-on scientific learning opportunity earlier this month.
Students and science professors gathered at Jack C. Davis Observatory’s parking lot early in the morning and sent a helium-filled balloon nearly 17 miles into the stratosphere to record high-altitude data, then retrieved the balloon’s payload, which included instruments and sensors, in a cow pasture a few towns away in Minden.
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