Students in the CUNY Language Immersion Program (CLIP) recently enjoyed an exciting and educational tour aboard the Intrepid, the extraordinary American air, sea, military, and space vessel and museum at Pier 86 along the Hudson River. This national historic landmark provided an inside look at important accomplishments throughout history, as well as a look and current and future innovations.

All photos taken by students and/or their instructors.

Kingsborough English Language Institute (KELI) students enjoyed a day of art and culture at New York City’s famous Metropolitan Museum of Art. The recent field trip gave participants the opportunity to enhance their understanding of the lessons they’ve learned in the classroom and to further their interest in the field.

All photos taken by students and/or their instructor.

Spring 2024 graduates of the Contextualized Free ESL & Food Handlers Program proudly display their ServeSafe certificates of completion!  They were joined by ESL instructor, Marina Khusid, culinary instructor, Chef Alan Hirsch, program coordinator, Sabina Krivenko, and CLTs, Veronica Walrond and Aurora Ponce.

Prior to receiving their honors, participants gave beautiful presentations on their future restaurants.  The spirited event concluded with a buffet of delectable culinary creations prepared by our student-chefs.

Targeted to ESL learners, the Contextualized Free ESL & Food Handlers Program focuses on helping students improve their English, learn cooking techniques and food preparation skills, and study for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and nationally-recognized ServSafe certifications, in preparation for careers in the Food Services Industry. The Program incorporates ServSafe and NYC Department of Health (DOH) Food Handler certification practices, covering health and safety during hands-on food preparation.

For more information about the program, please call (718) 368-4870.

We’re proud to announce the completion of the very first Bridges to Offshore Wind Program at Kingsborough Community College!

Earlier this month, we teamed up with the non-profit Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow (OBT) for a comprehensive Construction and Clean Energy Training which provided students with OSHA and scaffolding trainings, and Bridges to Offshore Wind. 

Bridges to Offshore Wind is a new 15-hour presentation that provides a comprehensive introduction to offshore wind energy and the emerging local OSW industry, an overview of occupations, review of labor market data, and information on a variety of pathways to careers in OSW. During this launch, students heard from guest presenters from OSW developers including Vineyard Wind, Bluepoint Wind, Atlantic Offshore Wind, Atlantic Offshore Terminals, Invenergy, and the Workforce Development Institute. Students also got to build functioning wind turbine models.

Congratulations to the first group of students completing this program! A heartfelt thanks goes out to all of the guest presenters and companies that made this program a success!

We just received a grant to host a new User Experience training program! The first cohort is already full, but we’re recruiting for our Spring 2024 cohort now. Click here or email Program Director, Hillary Stackpole at hillary.stackpole@kbcc.cuny.edu for more information.

YESSS! (Youth Engagement Summer STEM at Sea!), a free summer program for NYC youth who are interested in marine science, launched on June 26^th with a group of 20 students. 

Students learned about the estuary surrounding KCC’s campus, including the physical and chemical properties of the water, its fish and macroinvertebrates, and their role in food chains and webs, zooplankton and phytoplankton, and how microplastics effect larger food chains. Students got their hands dirty by collecting specimens from the KCC beach with plankton nets and trawls, and analyzed them back in the lab using field and digital microscopes. 

The ultimate goal of YESSS! is to get students interested in marine STEM through hands-on activities and experiences. We want them to build the knowledge to understand that humans can make responsible choices to protect the dynamic underwater wilderness that surrounds KCC, Brooklyn and NYC, as a whole. 

YESSS! is generously funded by Assemblywoman Jaime Williams (Assembly District 59 in Brooklyn) and Assemblyman Pheffer-Amato (District 23 in Queens).