Students demonstrate different styles of dance during the Spring 2012 NOVA Day at Annandale campus.

Obama spoke of community colleges becoming community career centers where people can learn the skills that businesses are looking for today. He told the crowd that there are jobs available and many people who are unemployed, but businesses can’t always find workers with the right skills to do those jobs, many of which are in the science and technology industries.

Ever wonder how households with many visitors, most unexpected due to lack of advanced communication, cooked for more people than one typically sees at Thanksgiving dinner without a refrigerator, microwave or running water?

The Alexandria music department of Northern Virginia Community College will host the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra on Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m., in the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall & Arts Center. All NOVA faculty, staff and students are invited to attend this free performance.

It was another year of going green at the 2012 Washington Auto Show. “Green” environmentally-friendly cars lead to green money. At least, that’s what the auto makers hope.

Sixty-five students spent the evening sharing a meal, making new friends and trading stories of their own customs and holidays.

Join in for NOVA’s third annual NOVA Serves: MLK Day National Day of Service on Monday, Jan. 16. Over the past two years, NOVA Serves has offered 14 service projects and engaged over 750 students, faculty and staff in service.

MAGFest is an annual event in the Washington, D.C., area dedicated to the celebration of video games and video game music.

Virginia Senator Creigh Deeds will appear at a public hearing at George Mason University’s Fairfax campus on Friday, Jan. 6.

Dave Bausch and the Worst Case Scenario decided to make it a best case scenario on Thursday, Dec. 1, when they held a charity concert at the Woodbridge campus.