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OCTC Hosting Commencement Ceremonies

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) will hold its Commencement Ceremonies at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 11, and Thursday, May 12, 2022, at the RiverPark Center, located at 101 Daviess Street in Owensboro. The college will award 1,487 creden...

May 9, 2022, 4:47pm EDT

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OCTC Receives Grant from National Science Foundation

Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) received a $556,314 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for training the current and future workforce with increased Industry 4.0 skills that are critical in the post-pandemic manufacturing ...

May 5, 2022, 10:44am EDT

OCTC Honors Employees with Annual Awards

2021 OCTC EXCELLENCE AWARDS Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) annual employee awards program was held April 22, 2022, delayed from November due to COVID restrictions. The Awards of Excellence are the pinnacle awards, chosen from nomin...

May 3, 2022, 4:43pm EDT

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OCTC Hosts Summer Art Workshops in Printmaking and Paper Collage for Beginners Ages 15 and Up

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) will be hosting two art workshops in June 2022. These are offered for anyone ages 15 and up. The workshops are designed for beginners and the supplies for each workshop are included in the $93.50 fee. The ...

May 3, 2022, 1:00pm EDT

OCTC Speech & Debate Team concludes 2021-2022 season with triumphs at Spring Climb the Mountain Online Tournament and Florida Atlantic Owl Online Speech Invitational

Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) speech and debate team, the Tammy M. Rice Debate Society, competed in their final tournaments of the 2021-2022 season at the Climb the Mountain online debate tournament hosted by Whitman College in Walla...

Apr 26, 2022, 8:00am EDT

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Spring 2022 OCTC Student Art Awards

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) art students participated in the college's Spring 2022 semester Student Art Exhibition. Dustin M. Price, curator, and director of Gallery Gray, a nontraditional online gallery space, served as a juror for ...

Apr 18, 2022, 2:35pm EDT

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OCTC's Common Reading Selection "Next Door to the Dead"

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) is continuing the campus wide Common Reading program and invites the community to participate. The book for the Spring 2022 semester is Next Door to the Dead, a book of poems by Kathleen Driskell. The book...

Apr 5, 2022, 5:38pm EDT

OCTC students receive scholarships from Gene Haas Foundation

Owensboro Community and Technical College students in the Computerized Manufacturing and Machining program received scholarship funds from the Gene Haas Foundation. Established in 1999, the Gene Haas Foundation expanded its mission to support the need...

Mar 15, 2022, 9:00am EDT

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OCTC Foundation receives $25,000 donation from Domtar Hawesville Operation supporting student success

The Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) Foundation, Inc. received a donation of $25,000 from the Domtar Hawesville Mill. It is a contribution to the Title III E3@OCTC Workforce Investment Endowment, which supports workforce development and...

Mar 7, 2022, 10:44am EST

OCTC Holding Art Workshops

OCTC's art faculty, John Schartung, has designed a pair of workshops for the novice: beginning printmaking and drawing with oil pastels. "Both of the workshops provide a fun way to customize a gift for any occasion, hand printed cards and prints are ...

Mar 2, 2022, 9:00am EST

About Owensboro Community and Technical College

Owensboro Community & Technical College is a public, two-year, open admissions college accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and is one of the sixteen colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS). The college values innovation, is focused on student learning, and is responsive to economic trends.  

Most OCTC students are from the counties of Daviess, Ohio, Hancock and McLean in Kentucky, but many others travel from elsewhere in Kentucky and southern Indiana. 

These Merit pages are used to celebrate the successes of our students and will serve them as an online portfolio of achievements.