November 15,2005 - WCC Campus Voice 7
Qn-campus center offers state-of-the-art care
Building was the first
in Wayne Community’s
three-phase project
By ANTHONY FREDERICK
Staff Writer
Want to be able to watch your
kids while you’re at work? No
problem. At least not for the
parents whose children attend
the Child Care Center in Wayne
Community College’s Oak
Building.
Web cams have been installed
in the classroom that can be
viewed by parents from their
offices. Parents have their own
case-sensitive password that
can be typed in and allow them
to be instantly logged on and
see what their children are
doing.
While speaking with Miss
Delaine Tucker, director of the
Child Care Center, she gave me
a tour and a rundown of a
normal day in the Oak building.
The Oak building doubles not
only as a community child care
center but also as a hands-on
learning lab for students who
are enrolled in ^y child care
program here on campus. The
teachers employed there are
graduates or soon-to-be
graduates and are highly
qualified. Miss Tucker said.
Training throughout the year is
mandatory so that teachers stay
up to date.
The center is divided into four
classrooms for four different age
groups ranging from six weeks
to five years.
Each classroom contains
visual learning aids that prepare
the children not only for school,
but for life. Each room has
computers with games, such as
Sammy’s Science House, and
numerous other learning tools
and computer programs that
teach children learning can be
fun and educational.
Opened in July of2003, the Oak
building was chosen to be the
first of a three-building project
funded by a state bond given to
the school in 2000. While there
had been plans to build a child
care center for awhile, the bond
money afforded the opportunity
to do s5.
With modem technology in
the classrooms, along with
updated computer learning
tools, the Oak building is
equipped to meet society’s great
demand for skilled child care
workers.
The WCC Child Care Center was the first of the three buildings in the new construction project.
Photos by
MELISSA BRAGG
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Delaine IXicker reads a story. Children at the Child Care Center go for a walk.
Web site tells the world about WCC’s progress
Photo by MELISSA BRAGG
Brent Hood, Web master, maintains the college Web site.
ByANDREWHANKINS
StaffWriter
Have you ever wondered how
popular the Wayne Community
College Web site is? Just ask
Brent Hood, the site’s designer.
He can access a tracker showing
that close to 60 countries have
viewed it, including Tanzania,
The Czech Republic and Qatar.
Since June 13,2005, there have
been more than 67,000 individual
visits to the site, and about 300
of those were to the section
about the construction of the
Walnut building. In a sense, the
Web site is not only showing our
community the growth of this
campus, it’s showing the entire
world.
People visiting the Web site
can go on a photo tour of the
Since June 13, 2005, there have been more
than 67,000 individual visits to the site.
new Walnut building. A link at
the bottom of the page leads to
pictures of the building being
erected. Much like a time lapse,
it features pictures, taken at
different stages of the
construction process.
The first picture you see as you
enter the page is a 3-dimensional
model rendering of how the new
building was expected to look.
Scroll all the way to the bottom
and there are pictures of the
groundbreaking ceremony. While
scrolling back up to the top, you
can watch as a steel and concrete
frame covers what was bare
ground. Finally, there is a picture
of the front side taken May 17,
2005, when Walnut was nearly
completed.
Thanks to the Web site, what
is big news to us as a conmiunity
is also news to the world. And,
with additional information that
will be provided in the near
future, people from all walks of
life will continue to see WCC’s
growth.
Would you like to go on the
photo tour? If so, log onto
WWW. waynecc. edu/home/ce-
building-project.htm.
See Campus Voice construction
photos, page 8.