Dordt students do mission work over holiday break through AMOR

Thirty-two Dordt College students and three Dordt employees served as mission volunteers in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic in January through the college's A Mission OutReach (AMOR) program.

This international service/missions opportunity has been offered annually to students at Dordt College since the 1980s. Students serving on AMOR teams do construction/renovation projects and youth ministry and, in the process, are introduced to the culture and the mission challenges of their host country to get a broader understanding of the needs of the world.

To read more about the student's experiences and reactions from each of these locations, click here.

InnoVac provides internship opportunity for Dordt biotech major

Team up a local biotechnology firm, a college student with a biotechnology emphasis, and Dordt College's sophisticated DNA sequencing equipment, and what do you get? In this case, it's a win/win situation for everyone involved.

During Dordt College's fall semester, senior Josh Bowers from Peyton, Colo., was offered the opportunity to intern at InnoVac, a biotechnology firm located in Sioux Center. He devoted two hours a day, 10 hours a week, to an internship project that has led to his senior research proposal, "Culturing Canine Parvovirus In Vitro: Detection of Mutations."

During this semester Bowers will utilize the DNA sequencer in Dordt's Science and Technology Center to continue his canine antigen vaccine project and complete his biology degree with an emphasis in biotechnology.

To learn more about Josh's project with InnoVac, click here
 

Only one semester into his studies at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, the 22-year-old Haitian was in the first day of his second semester when news came of the quake in his homeland. After talking it over with his sponsor family, Herlan and Jeaneen De Jager of Rock Valley, Iowa, and officials at Dordt, Gillot caught a flight to Haiti two days later.

To read more about Claude and his trip home to visit his family and his village, click here. This article is reprinted from the Sioux Falls Argus Leader and is being used with permission.
 

Dordt College Junior Art Show

Dordt College's annual junior art exhibit is now on display in the Campus Center gallery, featuring the work of 14 junior art majors through February 9.

Art media in the exhibit includes photography, graphic design, painting, drawing, printmaking, mixed media, ceramics, and sculpture.

The public is invited to these free art exhibitions. The Campus Center Art Gallery is open every day from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

For  a list of show participants and their hometowns, click here.
 

Twenty-two teams take the Prairie Grass Film Challenge

Twenty-two teams are competing in the fourth annual Prairie Grass Film Challenge.

Sponsored by Prairie Grass Productions (a subsidiary of the Dordt College Digital Media Department), the challenge gives participating high school and college teams 48 hours to come up with a concept for a short film (5-8 minutes), write a script, shoot the footage, cut it together, and submit it for screening.

All approved movies created during the challenge will be shown at a free public screening on Friday, Feb. 19, on the campus of Dordt College, where winners will be determined and cash and prizes will be awarded.  The public is invited to attend.

For more information, click here.