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  • VPCC Student Cameran Drew Makes History by Election to Surry Board

    VPCC Student Cameran Drew Makes History by Election to Surry Board

    Cameran Drew, a 19-year-old student at Virginia Peninsula Community College, said his platform helped him become the youngest candidate ever elected to the Surry County Board of Supervisors. “The biggest…

  • Sports Update: Soccer Takes Important Steps in Building Program

    Sports Update: Soccer Takes Important Steps in Building Program

    For the Virginia Peninsula Community College men’s soccer team, the 2025 season was a case of it being more than the sum of its parts. The Gators posted just two…

  • VPCC Site of Recent Forum on Healthcare Coverage Access

    VPCC Site of Recent Forum on Healthcare Coverage Access

    A forum called Strategic Partnerships: Empowering Our Community for SNAP and Medicaid recently took place at VPCC.

  • Grad Antoine Johnson Sees Skilled Trades as Path to Bright Future

    Grad Antoine Johnson Sees Skilled Trades as Path to Bright Future

    Antoine Johnson has serves the past 15 years as a maintenance technician for the City of Hampton and credits VPCC for helping sharpened his knowledge in HVAC.

  • SGA President Julian Parker: An Advocate for Students

    SGA President Julian Parker: An Advocate for Students

    Julian Parker said his responsibilities as Student Government Association president at Virginia Peninsula Community College include showing students they have power and how to use that power to make positive…

  • Men’s Basketball Team Hopes to Run its Way to Wins

    Men’s Basketball Team Hopes to Run its Way to Wins

    The Virginia Peninsula Community College men’s basketball team will utilize a different playing style this year from last year. The goals, however, are the same as every year. “Definitely going…

  • New Cheerleading Coach Driven by Love of Sport

    New Cheerleading Coach Driven by Love of Sport

    Iyanna Powell enjoyed her time as a cheerleader at Woodside High School so much that it led to her becoming a cheer coach. “I started coaching just so I could…

  • Mary T. Christian Theatre Rededication Set for Jan. 10

    Mary T. Christian Theatre Rededication Set for Jan. 10

    Virginia Peninsula Community College officials announced the rededication of the theater in Templin Hall on the Hampton Campus is scheduled for Jan. 10, 2026. “We are thrilled to be nearing…

  • New Endowed Scholarship Honors Community Leader Joseph Fuentes

    New Endowed Scholarship Honors Community Leader Joseph Fuentes

    VPCC officials announced the creation of the Joseph John Fuentes Endowed Memorial Scholarship, established by the Fuentes family to celebrate the life and legacy of an esteemed community leader.

  • VPCC’s Nakia Madry-Smith Reflects on Singing at the Vatican with Pharrell’s Voices of Fire

    VPCC’s Nakia Madry-Smith Reflects on Singing at the Vatican with Pharrell’s Voices of Fire

    Before an enormous audience in the heart of Vatican City, Nakia Madry-Smith was part of a surreal moment she’ll never forget.