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OCTC HOSTS YOUTH LEADERS IN NEW INNOVATION LAB

Owensboro Community and Technical College hosted 11 youth leaders from the Owensboro Cumberland Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, March 21, 2019 in the college's new Innovation Lab located at the Downtown Campus,1501 Frederica Street, Owensboro. The yout...

Mar 25, 2019, 5:45pm EDT

Life Happens but Embry Encourages Adult Learners to Persevere

As a non-traditional adult student Julie Embry knows first-hand that "life happens". She also knows that life and fear can be significant obstacles to overcome when returning to college. "My first priority is to make sure that every student who come...

Mar 22, 2019, 2:05pm EDT

Owensboro Community & Technical College Student Named to 2019 Coca-Cola Academic Team

Owensboro Community & Technical College student Kaylee Meador has been named a 2019 Coca-Cola Academic Team Bronze Scholar and has earned a $1,000 scholarship. Meador is an OCTC Early College student, a Daviess County High School student enrolled fu...

Mar 21, 2019, 12:56pm EDT

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OCTC's Workforce Solutions Offering Project Management Workshop

Owensboro Community and Technical College's Workforce Solutions division will offer a Project Management Workshop on May 8- 9, 2019. This workshop provides hands-on instruction in the fundamentals of project management. Participants will learn th...

Mar 19, 2019, 12:21pm EDT

OCTC Hosts Bestselling Author Thursday

The Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) Common Reading selection for the spring 2019 semester is, Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. Dr. Okorafor earned a Hugo and Nebula Award for this novella first published in 2015, it is a Tor.com book published...

Mar 19, 2019, 10:57am EDT

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

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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

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.