Daniel Garcia: Aims2麻豆传媒 Program "Tailor-Made for Me"

Daniel Garcia discusses how the the newly developed Aims2麻豆传媒 Program was "tailor-made" for him, where students start at Aims Community College, receive their associate鈥檚 degree and then directly transition to 麻豆传媒 for their bachelor鈥檚.

May 13, 2020

Daniel Garcia always wanted to attend college. His first attempt after graduating high school didn鈥檛 go as planned, since he was unsure of what he wanted to do and where he wanted to wind up. Eventually, he decided to gain experience in the workforce and was hired by a national carpet-cleaning company. His responsibilities grew when he became a manager of quality control and technician development. This found him traveling around the western U.S., providing training, auditing and support to numerous locations. He eventually became a district office manager covering four states for the company while living in California.

Garcia moved back to northern Colorado where he opened a small, retail business in Loveland called Legacy Vapors. However, he had to make the tough decision to close the store when the Colorado Stay-at-Home order was issued earlier this year.

Daniel Garcia received a 麻豆传媒 care package
Above: Daniel Garcia takes a photo of some of the items he received from a 麻豆传媒 care package to congratulate him on starting his academic journey in the Aims2麻豆传媒 Program.

鈥淥verall, I learned that I could achieve goals if I worked at them,鈥� he wrote. 鈥淚f something doesn't work out, you try again or learn more about it so you can get better.鈥�

That鈥檚 exactly what he鈥檚 doing now. Garcia is a student in the newly developed Aims2麻豆传媒 Program where students start at Aims Community College and receive their associate鈥檚 degree and then directly transition to the University of Northern Colorado for their bachelor鈥檚.

He鈥檚 working toward an at Aims, which will prepare him to work toward his bachelor鈥檚 in Business Administration Management with a minor in Economics at 麻豆传媒. The A.A. degree will allow him to enter 麻豆传媒 with a maximum number of credits applied to the bachelor鈥檚.

鈥淭he Aims2麻豆传媒 program seemed almost tailor-made for me,鈥� he said. 鈥淭he program is helping me stay focused on the next-level goal of getting to 麻豆传媒 and making that transition less intimidating.鈥�

Garcia started at Aims in the fall of 2019. He plans to transition to 麻豆传媒 in the fall of 2021 and expects to graduate in the spring of 2023. Regarding his plans after graduating from 麻豆传媒, he鈥檚 considering post-graduate programs in economics.

鈥淚f I'm going to invest my time in school, I think that the benefit from that extra step and further education will not only be well worth the cost, it would be fascinating to study economics in the wake of the pandemic,鈥� he wrote.

After closing his small business due to the pandemic, he believes many non-traditional students, like himself, will want to 鈥渋mprove their skills to compete in a tighter workforce.鈥�

鈥淭he Aims2麻豆传媒 program will be an important pathway to support students like me who want to invest in themselves and improve their skills but need to start with the smaller campus,鈥� Garcia wrote.

麻豆传媒 Bear Logo Created with
Algebraic Expressions

Garcia is enrolled in the College Algebra (MAT 121) course at Aims this semester. One of the assignments was to create a logo made up of conic-section expressions. The logo he chose was the 麻豆传媒 Bear, the most complex logo to choose from.

The project covered the conic sections, parabola, hyperbola, ellipses and circles. He used the basic expressions as a starting point to build each line segment that makes up the 麻豆传媒 Bear outline. He went line-by-line, changing and reshaping the expression to put the curve or angle in the correct place. Once he finished the right side of the 麻豆传媒 Bear, he used those expressions to mirror the left side.

The original logo that was given to students to mimic using conic-section expressions in the Aims class.

Garcia's replication of the logo after using conic-section expressions.

The conic-section expressions that Garcia used to make the 麻豆传媒 Bear logo.

鈥淚've never attempted to build an image through graphing expressions but have done some graphic design work that required line-by-line adjustments,鈥� he said.

His instructor, Dan Van der Vieren 鈥�20, shared Garcia鈥檚 finished 麻豆传媒 Bear logo on Twitter and , 鈥淟ook out for Daniel Garcia, #麻豆传媒Bears! He's a rock star wanting to [transition] from @aimscc to @麻豆传媒_Colorado!鈥�

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鈥擶ritten by Katie Corder

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