Congratulations to the ECC Community Education team for winning an International Award for Best Programming from the Learning Resources Network (LERN), the largest association in continuing education in the world. The prestigious award was one of only 20 given at LERN's comprehensive annual conference in Savannah, Georgia, attended by more than 650 professionals in lifelong learning from three countries.
The Community Education program "Art of Science/Science of Art" was honored, a cultural series that brings several college disciplines together for a result that emphasizes the individual attributes of both art and science and the amazing place where they intersect. This year's "Art of Science/Science of Art" series centered on a "Frankenstein 200" theme, which celebrated the bicentennial of the January 1818 publication of Mary Shelley's gothic romantic novel "Frankenstein." Through this cultural series that ran September 2017 through January 2018, sold-out audiences enjoyed Frankenstein-themed events, workshops, an art installation and a ghost story writing contest, among other activities celebrating the influential book that many consider the first true science fiction story ever written.