OCTC Hosts Recognition Event
Owensboro, KY (08/29/2019) — Owensboro Community & Technical College is kicking off September's National Preparedness month by hosting a presentation in conjunction with the National Weather Service recognizing that OCTC is a StormReady Supporter. The event will be held Friday, August 30 at 10:30 a.m. in Blandford Lecture Hall, located in the Humanities building, on the main campus at 4800 New Hartford Road.
StormReady is a national program unveiled by the National Weather Service in April 2000. A community organizaiton must achieve a specific level of hazardous weather operation readiness in order to be accredited as a StormReady Supporter.
The event is free and open to the public. Rick Shanklin the Acting Meteorologist-in-Charge/ Warning Coordination Meteorologist from the NWS in Paducah, Kentucky is expected to attend and make remarks.
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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.
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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.
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