Student Life



Valencia College’s Engineering Society Wins Statewide Awards… Again

Valencia College’s student chapter of the Florida Engineering Society received two prestigious awards at this year’s FES/FICE 99th Annual Summer [...]


Update: Erika Weakens, So It’s Back to School Next Week

Noon Sunday Update: With Erika downgraded from a tropical storm, Valencia College will be open next week and fall classes [...]


Cornell or Bust: Valencia Grad Heads to Grad School to Study Public Health

Gloria Coicou sounds like your typical American success story. Last spring, she graduated magna cum laude from UCF and this [...]


Summer Institute Plants the Seeds for Students Interested in STEM Majors

“Who wants to be a planet?” When Valencia College physics professor Richard Jerousek posed that question to a handful of [...]


Procrastinators: There’s Still Time to Enroll for Fall Classes at Valencia

With classes beginning on Aug. 31, it’s not too late to apply to Valencia College for the upcoming fall semester. [...]


Valencia Dual-Enrollment Graduate Has Her Sights Set on Medical School

Cindy Rajkumar is the first to tell you that her family isn’t your typical suburban family. For one thing, their [...]


Valencia’s West Campus to Hold Emergency Preparedness Exercise

Orlando – More than a hundred Central Florida first responders and emergency personnel will practice a full-scale emergency preparedness exercise [...]


Valencia Engineering Students Test Parachute Designs at NASA

Kiara Rodriguez and her Valencia College engineering classmates spent much of the summer on a mission – one handed to [...]


Valencia Grad Lands Prestigious Scholarship to University of Oxford

When Laura Puentes was in high school, this smart daughter of working-class immigrant parents set her sights on a college [...]


Valencia Student Excels as She Reaches for the American Dream

Carolina Palacio arrived in the United States full of hope. It didn’t take long for those immigrant dreams to be [...]