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OCTC 2019 DECEMBER COMMENCEMENT & HONORS CEREMONY

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) held a December commencement ceremony to honor graduates from the summer and fall semesters. 373 students from fall and summer were awarded 721 certificates, 79 diplomas, and 312 associate degrees at the c...

Dec 20, 2019, 8:00am EST

OCTC's Student Spotlight

Hamilton Seeks Healing Power of Music Although Addison Hamilton is a familiar face, singing and playing guitar at Pathfinder Day, or helping out at various events on OCTC's campus, technically she is still a senior at Daviess County High School. Ha...

Dec 19, 2019, 3:06pm EST

Fall 2019 OCTC Student Art Exhibition Awards

Owensboro Community & Technical College art students participated in the college's Fall 2019 Student Art Exhibition. The culmination of the exhibit is the student awards, including Merit and Purchase awards. Larry Simpson served as juror for the exhibi...

Dec 16, 2019, 3:05pm EST

OCTC will hold its December Commencement Ceremony at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 19, 2019 at the RiverPark Center, located at 101 Daviess Street in Owensboro. The college will award 1112 credentials to 373 fall and summer semester graduates. The student address will be delivered by Gage Michael Camron. Other students featured in the ceremony include: Abby Adcox, Jonathan Edward Bozarth, Eder Uziel Romero, and OCTC alumnus Justin Kurz. Gage Michael Camron is graduating with an Associate in Applied Science degree in Electrical Technology, with a 4.0 GPA. He participated in the GO FAME program and worked at Metalsa while completing his studies. Camron was a member of OCTC’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge Team, placing ninth. After graduation, he plans to continue his education at Western Kentucky University and pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Leadership. The event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact Bernie.Hale@kctcs.edu.

OCTC December 2019 Commencement

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) will hold its December Commencement Ceremony at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 19, 2019 at the RiverPark Center, located at 101 Daviess Street in Owensboro. The college will award 1112 credentials to 373 ...

Dec 16, 2019, 12:29pm EST

OCTC Offering Robotics Course

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) is offering a new robotics course for the spring semester. Industrial Robotics and Robotic Maintenance which will be taught by faculty member James Hall. The four hour credit course will be offered in a Tu...

Dec 5, 2019, 12:31pm EST

Fatherhood Prompts Career Change

José Romo's family arrived in the United States when he was seven years old. They moved from Franklin, Tennessee to Russell Springs, Kentucky, where Romo graduated high school. Ultimately, they settled in Tell City, Indiana where they opened the family...

Dec 3, 2019, 8:00am EST

OCTC Chorus Christmas Concert

The Owensboro Community and Technical College Chorus (OCTC), under the direction of Dr. Connie Ford, Professor of Music, and accompanied by pianist Angela Bruce, will perform a Christmas concert at First Christian Church on Monday, Dec. 9 at 7:00 p.m. ...

Nov 29, 2019, 8:00am EST

Owensboro Choral Society Presents 79th Annual Handel's Messiah

On Sunday, Dec. 8 at 2:30, the Owensboro Choral Society will present the 79th annual performance locally of Handel's Messiah at Third Baptist Church. The first Owensboro performance was Dec. 7, 1941, the day Pearl Harbor was bombed. Since then, Messia...

Nov 27, 2019, 3:41pm EST

OCTC Offers New Winter Term

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) will offer a winter term option for the first time. This term will begin on December 16 and run through January 10. The offering will include online courses in a condensed format including, Principles of M...

Nov 27, 2019, 10:00am EST

OCTC Students Sweep Nuckols Memorial Welding Competition

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) welding students competed in the 11th Annual David Nuckols Memorial Welding Competition on November 9 at Titan Contracting & Leasing in Owensboro, Kentucky. OCTC students earned both first place, Erwin Per...

Nov 22, 2019, 12:19pm 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.