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To the benefit of Holmes Community College students and others across the nation, the Federal Pell Grant continues its year-round status and is available to cover summer school. Students may be eligible to use part of their Federal Pell Grant eligibility for the 2018-2019 academic year to cover expenses for the current summer term as long as they are enrolled in a minimum of six credit hours or half time over the course of the summer.

The SkillsUSA chapters from two Holmes Community College campuses successfully competed in the annual competition hosted by the Mississippi Department of Education at the Mississippi Trademart Center in Jackson and the Clyde Muse Center in Pearl April 10-11.

Author Richard Grant, who wrote “Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta,” discussed his New York Times Bestseller during a presentation at the Holmes Community College Ridgeland Campus on April 10. A reception and book signing followed his lecture.

Holmes Community College Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Associate Chair and Computer Science Instructor Dr. Robert Harris recently received the Horizon Lifetime Achievement Award from the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences.

The 2018 Spring Pops Concert is set for Tuesday, April 24 at 7 p.m. in McDaniel Hall Auditorium on the Goodman Campus of Holmes Community College.

.On Friday, April 13, the Ridgeland Campus will hold its annual Freshman Friday event, while also celebrating the school mascot Major’s first birthday.

The Ninetieth Commencement exercises are set for Friday, May 11 in Frank Branch Coliseum on the Goodman Campus. The AA ceremony is set for 10 a.m. with the AAS/Certificate ceremony being set for 2 p.m.

Goodman Campus student Christopher Kalil and Goodman English Instructor William C. “Chad” Moorer recently were recognized as William Winter Scholars during the 29th Annual Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration.

The Holmes Community College Indoor Drumline captured their third Mississippi Indoor Association State Championship in the last four years Friday night in Jackson.

Matt Wolak takes Grand Award with ‘Two’ at first-ever HAVOC Film Festival