Telling EVC's Story

Hear from Our Students

 

Over Achieving Teens

Insane Ink	12-Year Old Graduate	From EVC to Cambridge
EVC's high school partnership with Insane Ink at Piedmont Hills High, which leads to college and high school credit, including sometimes a business / marketing certificate.	12-year old Phung-Hieu Diep graduated from EVC at the top of his class with a degree in Math. He plans to continue at EVC for another degree.	Janani Mohan started at EVC, before going to Cal, Stanford and then Cambridge in England.

 

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the Arts

Art Student Debi	Local Artist Alum	Studying Music at EVC
Art student Debi turned her passion for art and psychology into a degree, while also transferring to Cal.	Local artist and EVC graduate John Barrick talks about his work and impact from EVC	EVC Music students and staff talk about earning a degree in music from EVC

 

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STEM Education

	Biology Transfer
	Michelle's passion for the outdoors led her to pursue a degree in Biology and transfer to UCSC

 

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Career Education

Nursing	Auto Tech	Honda PACT
Three EVC nursing students talk about their passion for helping others.	Hear from Isabel, who started working on cars in high school and continued the trade at EVC.	Hear how one student is moving up at Honda after starting with the Honda PACT program.

CADD	Translation & Interpreting	Water Management
Hear how students turn computer aided design (CADD) into a career	Students who translated for family members in Vietnamese and Spanish have turned that into a career.	Adding water management courses to a plumbers' tool belt allow students to earn more in the world of water.

 

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Connections & Support

Enlace	Translation & Interpreting	Leadership
Gloria took advantage of all the student resources available to begin a path to transferring	For Ugonna, the relationships he made at Evergreen Valley College, especially as a Black man, are instrumental to who he has become.	Women's Soccer player Natalia Medina was a paralegal major who became a leader on the soccer pitch.

 

New Country	Learning English
An moved from Vietnam to the United States, learned English and then worked for EVC's Outreach program.	Students talk about moving to a new country and learning English with EVC

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Proud Alumni

Planet Paleta	Ph.D. in Pyschology	Second Chance
Like ice cream? You will love Paleta Planeta in downtown San Jose, owed by an EVC alum.	Tai pursued Psychology and went onto earn a Ph.D. in the field. It all started at EVC for a kid that really didn't like school.	For Pablo, EVC was a second chance. He came back to EVC because of soccer and then transferred to Cal State East Bay.
	Poet Lauret
	EVC alum Yosimar Reyes is an undocumented poet and writer.