Lighting and Sound America highlights MCC students: Sedrikk Cramer, Theodore Felix Grant McEntire, Jeffrey Rudolph, Sarah Salmi, Rodrigo Sandoval, Brian Wayne, Elizabeth Witte, and faculty Chris Tubilewicz, for winning the United States Institute for Theatre Technology Director's Award of $1,000 during the 2025 ASTC-USITT Venue Renovation Challenge. The team was asked to work together to envision the renovation of an existing theatre space or adaptation of an existing building for performing arts programming. The article also mentions that MCC is the first team of students from a two-year program to compete in the Renovation Challenge.