• Maine Printmaking Creates a Rise in Tourism 

    Maine Printmaking Creates a Rise in Tourism 

    Maine printmaking began in the 1880s when the Portland Society of Art was founded. The most popular printmaking method used in Maine today is monotype. “There are a lot of monotypes and monoprints. There are some traditional, some Stamp monotypes which are relief prints, there are several woodcuts and wood block reductive, there are cyana… Read more

  • Brightspace: A Closer Look at Brightspace Features

    Brightspace is the new learning platform that Southern Maine Community College just started using in the Summer of 2020. It replaced the previous platform SMCC was using (Blackboard) and was implemented system wide; all of the other Maine Community Colleges are also using Brightspace. By now, most of us are pretty familiar with the interface… Read more

  • A Chat with SMCC’s Women’s Coach

    A Chat with SMCC’s Women’s Coach

    By Blake Moran We sat down with Ethan Wells, coach of the women’s soccer team at Southern Maine Community College, to talk about bringing the reigning division championship team back on the field amid concerns about COVID. Wells, the assistant director of Athletics, previously worked at Post University as an assistant sports information director and… Read more

  • Women’s Soccer Game Changed

    Matt Richards, Associate Dean of Student Life at SMCC announced this morning that with the impending rain forecast for tonight, the athletic department have decided to push the start time of today’s women’s soccer game against Central Maine Community College from 4pm to 3pm, in hopes of beating the storm. Come stop by and support… Read more

  • Follow the voice of innovation.

    Follow the voice of innovation.

    I am Suwigya (Su-BIG-ya) Chaudhary, a pleasure to meet you. I am the editor for the Technology section on The SMCC Beacon website. Together with my colleagues, we will work to publish interesting technology articles. If you have any articles related to technology, click on my name in the staff box to share them through… Read more

  • Arts and Culture Editor

    Arts and Culture Editor

    Salutations Beacon readers, my name is Keannah Breault, the Arts and Culture section editor for Fall 2021. This year I hope to spark joy through my writing and to be a voice for the students of SMCC. I am majoring in Communications & New Media and hope to become a film editor. Favorite hobbies are… Read more