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Volume 27, Issue 13, November 04, 2004

On Campus

SACAB approves Auraria Child Care Center name change proposal
The Student Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board approved a proposal to change the name of the Auraria Child Care Center to the Auraria Early Learning Center in its Oct. 29 meeting.

Child Care Center employees and administrators said the Center is now more education-oriented and that current goals and services no longer reflect those offered by a basic child-care center.

The Center now offers classes, including a speech class, in addition to day-care services. No further information was available about other class offerings, according to a staff member who declined to identify herself.

According to the Auraria Child Care Center’s Web site, the Center provides full- and part-time programs for children 12 months to five years old. It also provides a fully accredited kindergarten program.

The Center is also accredited by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs, a division of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

NAEYC is a national, voluntary accreditation system to set professional standards for early childhood education programs, and to help families identify high-quality programs. NAEYC’s Web site lists the Auraria Child Care Center as accredited through Sept. 30, 2007.

Name changes are being done more often as child-care centers shift their focus to education, according to Rev. Janet M. Buntrock, a child-care program director in Littleton.

The Auraria Board will have to approve the name change.

Metro’s flight team takes second place in competition
Metro’s Precision Flight Team took second place overall at the National Intercollegiate Flying Association Region I competition in Salt Lake City Oct. 17 - 24.
The U.S. Air Force Academy took first overall.

Metro student Alex Brancard won the award for top pilot and brought home first-place medals in three events and placed in seven.

“This is my fourth year competing and my seventh competition,” Brancard said. “(Winning top pilot) is something I have always wanted to do before I graduate.”

Brancard plans to graduate next fall and said he wants to be a professional pilot.

He won medals in a landing event, a navigation event and a simulation event.

The Metro team receives $3,000 per year for the flight team, while teams such as the U.S. Air Force spend roughly $50,000.

The team’s coaches, Glen Davis and Eric Armstrong, are adjunct professors in the Department of Aviation and Aerospace Science. Both graduates of Metro, Davis is a first officer for Frontier Airlines and Armstrong is a captain for Air Wisconsin.

This is the second consecutive year Metro has finished second to Air Force and the second year a Metro team member has earned top pilot award.

Metro has been chosen to host next year’s NIFA Region I competition.

-compiled by Sharon Alley