Updated: 5 AM on 9/12 – Gardner Campus will remain open. Due to the extreme flooding in the Leominster area, the LEOMINSTER CAMPUS will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday, September 12. All Leominster morning, afternoon and evening classes, meetings and events are canceled. View weather policy here.
Gardner Mayor Mark Hawke and members of the Gardner Women’s Circle of Giving visited the Summer UP Jackson Park site last week along with Mount Wachusett Community College President James Vander Hooven. Both the City of Gardner and the Women’s Circle were instrumental in helping to fund Summer UP. The program, coordinated by Mount Wachusett […]
Doug Petersen, president and CEO of Workers’ Credit Union, and Mount Wachusett Community College President James Vander Hooven joined Summer UP participants and staff at Lowe Park in Fitchburg in the last week of July. Petersen, whose company is one of the donors that makes Summer UP possible, stopped by to meet with the participants. Both […]
Ariana Neal has been involved with Summer UP for over 10 years, first attending and then working at the free camp where she came out of her shell and became comfortable interacting with others. It was through this camp that Neal was able to embrace being an organizer and grow into the person she is […]
Over a decade ago, Mount Wachusett Community College’s Summer UP program began to provide safe, summertime activities and employment opportunities to area youth. Since then, thousands of children and teenagers in area cities have benefited from the program. Now completing its 11th season, Summer Up is a college/community partnership in Gardner, Fitchburg, and Leominster administrated […]
Summer UP, an MWCC Access & Transition program that began a decade ago to provide safe, summertime activities and employment opportunities to area youth, enhanced this year’s program with new career and college preparation training opportunities. Now completing its 10th season, Summer UP this year provided 110 of area high school and middle school students […]