On May 20, HMC and El Camino College celebrated the groundbreaking of a new STEM Center. Representing HMC at the groundbreaking was Thomas Ferrer and Kaysha Bucher; other project team members include James Woolum, Lucy Padilla and Amanda Carraway.

The STEM Center will be a new $2.1 million, 9,334-square-foot learning support center located in a renovated space in the lower level of the Natural Science Building. The center is designed for students studying STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) disciplines, and will contain four group learning areas, four self-study areas, a large collaboration lounge, three meeting rooms, three classrooms, and four faculty offices. Services for students include: Wi-Fi internet access and a computer lab with 21 computer stations. The new STEM Center and numerous other facilities improvements on campus were made possible with funds from the 2002 Measure E facilities bond.

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