{"id":14,"date":"2015-05-01T20:04:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T01:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/?p=14"},"modified":"2016-12-05T11:23:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T17:23:54","slug":"nearly-300-students-invited-to-ntc-commencement-on-may-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/01\/nearly-300-students-invited-to-ntc-commencement-on-may-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 300 students invited to NTC Commencement on May 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 300 students have been invited to celebrate the completion of their degrees from Northwest Technical College during the school&rsquo;s commencement on Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. in Bemidji&rsquo;s Sanford Center, located on First Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Coming to commencement? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/913536308709813\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Let us know on Facebook<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Commencement ceremonies at Northwest Technical College are free and open to the public; no tickets are required. Seating in the Sanford Center is general admission. There are approximately 1,000 parking spots at the Sanford Center available at no charge.<\/p>\n<p><b>Guest seating<br>\n<\/b>Doors to the Sanford Center will be open at 6 p.m. Commencement guests should enter the Sanford Center through Gate 2, through the main concourse. Handicapped or hearing-impaired guests are invited to enter through Gate 3. Only the lower bowl of the Sanford Center will be open for seating. Seating in Sections U and V will be reserved for handicapped visitors and their families. Section W has been designated as the section for hearing-impaired guests and their families. Concessions will be available in the concession stand behind Section U.<\/p>\n<p><b>Commencement speakers<br>\n<\/b>This year&rsquo;s commencement address will be delivered by Dr. Richard A. Hanson, president of Northwest Technical College and Bemidji State University.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Vyskocil, president of the Bemidji-based Northwest Minnesota Foundation, will also speak to NTC graduates. She will speak on behalf of the NTC Foundation and officially induct graduates into the NTC Alumni Association.<\/p>\n<p><b>Live Online Video<br>\n<\/b>NTC&rsquo;s commencement ceremony will again be available through a live online video stream. The stream will be available beginning at 7 p.m. Central time on May 8; viewers are encouraged to visit the stream in advance to ensure that necessary plug-ins are present and properly functioning. More information on the web stream is available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/commencement\">NTC&rsquo;s commencement website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Contact<br>\n<\/b>&bull; <b>Michelle Frenzel<\/b>, NTC registrar; (218) 755-2020, mfrenzel@bemidjistate.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 300 students have been invited to celebrate the completion of their degrees from Northwest Technical College during the school&rsquo;s commencement on Friday, May 8. The ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. in Bemidji&rsquo;s Sanford Center, located on First Avenue. &bull; Coming to commencement? Let us know on Facebook! Commencement ceremonies at Northwest Technical College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}