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OCTC OFFERS HR CERTIFICATION PREP TRAINING
Owensboro Community and Technical College's Workforce Solutions division will offer an HR Certification Prep class for human resource professionals beginning April 11, 2019. This course is recommended for anyone currently working in a human resources p...
Mar 6, 2019, 11:28am EST
OCTC Student Earns National PTK Scholarship
Across the United States this year only fifteen Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) members are named as Guistwhite Scholars. Owensboro Community & Technical College's Brooklyn Michelle Knight was one of the students selected from more than 2,000 applicants. She an...
Mar 5, 2019, 2:56pm EST
OCTC Student Blazing Her Own Trail at Modern Welding
While the number of female welders across the country has grown in recent years, only 24% of welders in the United States are women. Kelsey Lyons, a 2018 graduate of Owensboro Community & Technical College refused to let the odds keep her from followin...
Feb 28, 2019, 5:38pm EST
OCTC 2nd Annual Girls Empowerment Trail Blazer Dinner
Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) will host the 2nd Annual Girls Empowerment Trail Blazer Dinner on Thursday, March 7, at 5:30 p.m. in OCTC's Industry Innovation Center, featuring Nikki Epilon-Bryant. Eplion-Bryant will share her story and...
Feb 28, 2019, 12:00pm EST
Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education President to Visit Owensboro
Dr. Aaron Thompson, President of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, will visit Owensboro on Monday, March 4 and Tuesday, March 5 to meet with community leadership, Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) faculty, staff, students,an...
Feb 27, 2019, 8:00am EST
8,000 Mile Journey Leads December Lay to Healthcare Career
It is more than 8,000 miles from the country of Burma to Owensboro, Kentucky and that distance does not include a middle school pit stop in Texas. But despite the incredible distance traveled, and the language and cultural barriers he faced, December L...
Feb 20, 2019, 3:49pm EST
OCTC Hosting "Come As You Are" Event
OCTC's Counseling Center will host an information session for students called "Come As You Are" on Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 11 a.m. The session will feature local speakers in recovery from food addiction and is held in conjunction with National E...
Feb 13, 2019, 8:00am EST
OCTC Radiography Program Hosting Pre-Admission Conferences
Owensboro Community & Technical College has an excellent, two-year, Associate in Applied Science degree Radiography program. This selective admissions program is hosting preadmission conferences for the Fall 2019 semester at 10 a.m. on both Friday, ...
Feb 12, 2019, 11:11am EST
OCTC Hosting GO FAME Student Info Sessions
OCTC's Workforce Solutions will host an information session for students interested in learning more about the GO FAME program. The session will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 19, in the Advanced Technology Center in ATC 107, on OCTC's Main ...
Feb 11, 2019, 8:00am EST
OCTC Hosting Statewide Computing Conference
The Kentucky Community College (KYCC) Women In Computing (WiC) Conference will be held at OCTC March 22- 23, 2019. The conference serves as an extension of the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Celebrations of Women in Computing. ACM-W's inte...
Feb 7, 2019, 8:00am EST
