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WHAT: The 28 th Annual QUEST Academic Competition for public school students in grades 6-12 WHEN: Saturday, March 1, 2014, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. (the best time to visit is in the morning, see note below) WHERE: Trident Technical College Main Campus, 7000 Rivers Ave., North Charleston WHY: QUEST is designed to promote academic excellence, provide an academic challenge to students, and recognize students, teachers and schools that excel in academic areas. Students from 42 public schools in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties will participate in four levels of competition: Level I - grade 6, Level II - grades 7-8, Level III - grades 9-10, Level IV - grades 11-12. Students will compete and earn points in team competitions in math, science and social studies, and in individual competitions in composition, public speaking and visual arts. Schools whose students earn the most total points will win overall awards at each level. Special competitions that do not cont...

Award to support TTC’s Upward Bound Math and Science program Trident Technical College is proud to have received a Bosch Community Fund Grant of $20,000 to support Project Build, which seeks to expand opportunities in robotics education. The grant funds will be used to strengthen TTC’s Upward Bound Math and Science (UBMS) VEX robotics program. UBMS is a federally funded TRIO program that serves high school students who have demonstrated both aptitude and interest in science and/or mathematics. It is designed to strengthen the math and science skills of students, particularly those traditionally underrepresented in postsecondary education. TTC’s UBMS serves high school students from Berkeley County with Berkeley, Cross and Timberland high schools as their target schools. Project Build will enable the program to hire a specially trained robotics instructor; allow students to attend multiple competitions each year; upgrade robotics equipment and materials;...

When Ernest "Fritz" Hollings was elected governor and set out to make South Carolina more competitive in recruiting business and industry , h e knew that in order to do that, the state needed to do a better job of training people for the jobs.    So in 1 961, he established  th e South Carolina Advisory Committee for Technical Training, which oversaw the creation of permanent regional technical centers to provide post-secondary technical and other adult skills training.   The Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Technical Education Center (later to be named Trident Technical College) became the 7th center to open for its first 226 students in September 1964.   From the very beginning TTC has illustrated a characteristic that has become a hallmark of the college and the state technical college system:  rapidly changing curricula in response to new technology and changing community needs.  In an editorial appearing September 8, 1964, the openi...

2014 is a celebratory year for Trident Technical College, marking 50 years as a catalyst for personal, community and economic development by empowering individuals   through education and training. As the college community looks back on the last 50 years and ahead to the next 50, it seems there is no better time to reach out to old friends:  alumni, former students, retirees, supporters and friends of the college.  Join in the celebration by sharing your stories and memories. Tell us how TTC made an impact on your life and what you are doing now.  Send us your photos – from then and now - and we will share some fun photos of our own.      Click here to share your story!