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Kendall Beauchamp of Parsonsburg and John Todd of Salisbury recently became Wor-Wic’s first graduates in its STEM honors program at the 2022 commencement. Beauchamp and Todd completed lengthy capstone projects consisting of 90 hours of laboratory research to earn the distinction.
Rick Shores of Delmar, Md., took a non- traditional path to his degree — a path that at one point put his life at risk — but thanks to his choices, Shores is now embarking on Salisbury University’s (SU) master in business administration program. On the way, at Wor- Wic, he found not only an educational starting point but also a family.
After a lifetime of spending far too much time in hospitals and doctor’s offices, Caroline Wheeler of Fruitland couldn’t be blamed for avoiding them. Diagnosed with a rare medical condition at age 4 that led to a life-saving liver transplant when she was just 10, Wheeler instead embraced her insider knowledge.
Truck driving classes take place year-round, but there’s something students in the eight-week commercial truck driver training course could easily miss, depending on the weather: driving in snow or heavy rain. But that’s not a problem for commercial driver’s license (CDL) students at Wor-Wic, thanks to a new, high-tech simulator that gets students behind a virtual wheel to practice in all kinds of conditions.
Anatomy and physiology class might be inextricably linked with frogs and the odor of formaldehyde. But now, students at Wor-Wic are reaping the benefit of a more accurate, and scent-free, technology, in the form of Anatomage tables.
Thirty Wor-Wic Community College associate degree in nursing graduates recently participated in an awards and recognition ceremony.
Military experience and a decade as a correctional officer gave James Reich some important skills: grace under pressure and an ability to communicate with people. These skills, and his Wor-Wic Community College education, have made Reich into the ideal emergency department nurse.
Salina Kc of Ocean Pines never planned to work with children – in fact, she originally started her college career studying computer science. But a chance job ended up changing her life, along with her academic path.
Katie Shupe of Hebron and her brother, Dylan Ross of Salisbury, might be separated in age by a couple of years, but fate brought them to the stage for graduation on the same night. Shupe is a certified nursing assistant who earned her certification at Wor-Wic and now works at Atlantic General Hospital. She earned her general studies degree in preparation for entering the nursing program at Wor-Wic Community College. She follows in the footsteps of her mother, also a nurse who graduated from Wor-Wic.
During Wor-Wic Community College commencement ceremonies at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center in Salisbury, Dr. James D. Fielder, Maryland’s secretary of Higher Education, encouraged the graduates to take on the challenges of leadership in a changing world.