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Do you need math help? We offer tutoring, a Math Cube for private studying and assistance, and Faculty Office Hours to get you the help you need. Free Math Tutoring Ms. Aldrich offers free math tutoring 9:00-2:00 MWF and 11:30-3:30 TTh in Palmer room 226. Contact her at charlene.aldrich@tridenttech.edu to schedule an appointment. The Main Campus on Rivers Ave in North Charleston also offers free math tutoring 8:00 am -6:00 pm M-TTh in building 300, room 358. Math Cube Palmer Campus offers a private, quiet study and group work space in Palmer room 156A (in the Science and Math Office Suite).  You can find others working there and can find faculty close by for assistance. Faculty Office Hours Need help from your instructor? Stop by their Office Hours, which is the time that faculty are in their offices for drop-in and scheduled meetings with students. You can find their office hours by looking at their schedules on their doors. This term you can find Jane Simkovich in room 156D Mondays 1

Please join us in welcoming our new librarian to the Downtown Palmer Campus. We are so pleased to have her with us! Valarie is from Americus, GA and has over 10 years of experience in librarianship. She comes to us from Savannah State University in Savannah, GA where she held the position of Systems/Electronic Resources Librarian. Prior to Savannah State University, she worked as the Access Services Supervisor at Georgia Southwestern State University. Valarie has a Master of Library & Information Science from Valdosta State University, a Master of Education in Instructional Technology from Georgia Southern University and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/Management from Georgia Southwestern State University. She is new to the Charleston area and enjoys reading, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.

The graduation ceremony is one of the biggest and best events at Trident Technical College, when thousands of students realize their dreams of earning a degree, diploma or certificate. TTC holds one ceremony per year. The 2018 Graduation Ceremony for Fall 2017, Spring 2018 and Summer 2018 graduates is Friday, May 4, 7 p.m., at the North Charleston Coliseum. Students can apply for graduation in person at the Registrar’s office (Main Campus, Bldg. 410) or online. For an online application, visit  my.tridenttech.edu  > TTC Express > Academic Profile. For information on ordering regalia and invitations and other graduation information, visit  my.tridenttech.edu . Graduation fairs occur during Spring Semester at all campuses to assist graduates in completing graduation application requirements by the graduation ceremony and application deadline. Graduates will receive emails and announcements in the student portal about the dates and times for the fairs. This year, the Downtown Palmer

Want to be one of the 1300 new hires in manufacturing at Mercedes-Benz Vans but have no manufacturing experience? Trident Tech can help you. We are the light blue pathway in the graphic, the path you take if you have a high school credential and no manufacturing experience (if you need a high school credential or already have a high school credential and manufacturing experience, pick another pathway).   Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC (“MBV”)  is a plant in Ladson, South Carolina that assembles Sprinter vans for the U.S. market under the brands Mercedes-Benz and Freightliner. The midsize Metris van was added to the assembly line in 2015. Mercedes-Benz Vans, LLC announced in March 2015 that it will invest $500 million in construction of a new Sprinter production plant, in addition to an expansion of existing operations. In July 2016, MBV officially broke ground on the site of its new plant, located next to existing operations in the North Charleston area. The MBV facility will provide up to 1,

High school students, parents, teachers and school counselors are invited to attend a comprehensive information session to learn about apprenticeships Saturday, Feb. 3, 9 a.m.-noon on Main Campus in the College Center (Bldg. 920).  Presentations will be given throughout the morning at 9, 10 and 11 a.m., and participating employers will be on hand to meet potential applicants and answer questions. We will have updated test score requirement charts, as well as updated applications available. For additional information, email  ellen.kaufman@tridenttech.edu.

Trident Technical College’s Palmer Campus is teaming up with readySC, SC Works, Charleston County Adult Education, Charleston County Economic Development and TRIO’s Educational Opportunities Centers to host an information session that will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 23, from 6-8 p.m. at the downtown campus’s Amphitheater. The session will cover how one can become a successful part of Charleston’s growing workforce with panel discussion topics including GED classes, WorkKeys test preparation, college preparation, apprenticeships, workforce development, military veteran benefits and more. Representatives from each organization will also be available after the presentation to answer questions. The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Regina Smart at 843.722.5562.

Come to Palmer room 104 on January 31st between 1:00-3:00 to celebrate the Grand Opening of the Palmer Campus PTK Grocery Vault 2-Downtown. The TTC Vault, either on Main or Downtown, is open to all students and staff in need. Admissions Officer Gregory Cushing hosted an Angel Tree leading up to the Holiday Break during which our campus community donated the food that is currently on the shelves. If you missed out on that opportunity but would still like to donate,  you can bring donations to the Admissions Office and put them in the big green can.  Want to help further? Volunteers are needed to stock and staff the PTK Grocery Vault 2-Downtown. Orientation for volunteers is January 25th, 2-4 pm in Palmer room 107.  Dr. Mary Ann Kholi and the Clemente Coalition will be joining PTK in staffing and supporting the new Grocery Vault 2-Downtown.    Thanks to Admissions Officer Gregory Cushing for all his hard work getting this project off the ground, and Facilities Officer Pete Burbage for in

The TTC -Downtown Palmer Campus will be hosting classes for students who are training to potentially work for Mercedes-Benz Vans. The Post and Courier reports that "With its $500 million manufacturing campus expected to open during the second half of this year, Mercedes-Benz Vans is participating in a pair of events next week aimed at finding the 1,300 workers who will build Sprinter vans at the company's Palmetto Commerce Park site . . . Charleston County will host meetings on Jan. 18 and Jan. 20 to help county residents interested in working for Mercedes-Benz Vans obtain information about available positions and find the training they will need. Among the jobs that will be available are those in the body and paint shops as well as in assembly and maintenance." Campus Dean Dr. Lou Robinson and Assistant Dean Dr. Amy Hudock will be attending these info sessions to assist students who need training to move toward employment with Mercedes-BenzVans.  The Jan. 18 meeting wil

On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls, a crew of other enslaved sailors, and their families sailed out of the Charleston Harbor to freedom on a Confederate ship they handed over to Union forces. For this and many other notable accomplishments, Smalls looms large in the history of South Carolina, and Charleston, in particular. While Smalls was largely written out of South Carolina history for a number of years, his story could not be contained or controlled. Smalls has been honored with a monument at Charleston Waterfront Park, with numerous books and events, and now with an event at Trident Technical College - Downtown Palmer Campus.  A picture taken at Charleston Waterfront Park from the Post and Courier article " Robert Smalls Lauded as Civil Rights Pioneer " Join us for the 2018 Palmer Black History Month Spotlight program, "African Americans in Times of War: The Robert Smalls Story," on February 21, 2018, from 10:30-11:30 in the Palmer Amphitheater. The event will feat

This year's focus for our events and displays is to salute our military, and particularly the contributions of African Americans to the military.  On this date in 1973, the Paris Peace Accords arranged a ceasefire to take place on midnight, officially ending American involvement in the Vietnam War. This 20-year war was devastating to the people—not just the armies, but the Vietnamese civilians—and the environment of Vietnam, as napalm and defoliants burned and destroyed plant life. The Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of African Americans to ever to serve in an American war. During the height of the U.S. involvement, 1965-69, African Americans, who formed 11 percent of the American population, made up 12.6 percent of the soldiers in Vietnam.  The majority of these were in the infantry, and although authorities differ on the figures, the percentage of African American combat fatalities in that period was a staggering 14.9 percent, a proportion that subsequently declined. Volun

by Susan Millar Williams, Ph. D.  Approaching the Palmer Campus from East Bay Street, you can’t help but notice the railroad line along the Cooper River. In fact, most of the time you can’t see the river at all because the tracks are crowded with auto transport cars tagged with graffiti. Ruins of the Northeastern Railroad station. You may have seen articles recently about the Lowcountry Low Line, a proposed linear park that will run along one of those old railroad right-of-ways, between King and Meeting Streets. That long, narrow strip was once the path of the South Carolina Railroad. Other railroad lines also came through the East Side, including the Northeastern Railroad and the Charleston and Savannah Railroad. When the Charleston Museum published a history of the East Side in 1987, they titled it Between the Tracks .  The area grew up around railroads that carried goods and people in and out of the city. There was one passenger depot on Line Street, one on Mary, and another on East

The College of Charleston and Trident Technical College have developed a partnership through which students who take courses for two years at Trident to transfer into CofC’s Bachelor of Professional Studies Program . The new program “puts students at the forefront, improving flexibility and increasing access to high quality college education, especially for our local tri-county students,” Godfrey Gibbison, dean of the School of Professional Studies at the College of Charleston North Campus , said in a statement. “Institutions working together like this for the benefit of students is essential to the long-term economic vitality of the region.” The partnership, called the Cougar Path Program , is open to any Trident Tech student with a 2.6 cumulative GPA in certain associate programs in arts, science or applied science; or in some certificate programs. Students have three years after initial enrollment in Trident Tech to transfer to CofC. The Cougar Path Program will begin in the spri