Metropolitan Community College

Ben, for one thing, besides working here at Outlook, as he will describe for you, also went to college.

And he went to Metro Community College from 2017 through 2025.

And while he was there, he... was on campus some of the time, including having to deal with schooling through the COVID era, which made school and classes very, very interesting for him.

And he would have to balance his daily job here with classes and online studying and all that kind of thing.

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more.Amanda Schieller-Garciolo is executive chef at Metropolitan Community College's student-run SAGE Student Bistro.

Next month, she'll travel to Luxembourg with the US team for the Culinary World Cup.

The former Metro student also helps manage a youth team that includes three Metro students.

So I got my degree in graphic design, but then decided I don't like sitting at a computer.

So I ended up going to culinary school at the Institute for Culinary Arts at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, which is amazing because it's community college tuition.

But it is a top 10 culinary school in the nation.

It was an amazing education.

I've grown up in it.

And I also know what the cities have to offer.

You know, I went to Creighton University and Metropolitan Community College in Omaha.

But so I do think I have that different than my opponents because I now have three cities.

Uh, all proceeds directly are going to benefit the Johnny Rodgers Career and Technical Scholarship Foundation.

At Metro Community College.

Where does that all...

Like, tell folks the proceeds for this event, which we'll tell you a little bit more about how you can participate if you aren't already signed up, but where does that money go? Like, how, how does that benefit the folks here in Omaha?

That money goes back to Omaha and people in the f- the folks of Omaha.

At Metro Community College, we have 100 different trades that we're actually representing, and we have our total community that we put in that money there, and whatever it comes out to be, whether it's 100,000 or whether it's a million, Metro will match it for our community to give scholarships for people to go into the trades of all ages.

We have people that get scholarships from 18 to 80 that are going into the trade, and we have hundreds of trades.

And I tell you, there, there's a shortage of nurses.