NGTC Announces GOAL Winner
A White County resident receives North Georgia Technical College’s 2016 GOAL Award.
North Georgia Tech announced this week that Nursing student Jason Egerton of Cleveland won the school’s Georgia Occupational Award for Leadership honor.
GOAL candidates are nominated by an instructor and must maintain at least a 3.0 GPA and demonstrate strong work ethics and leadership skills.
This statewide award program of the Technical College System of Georgia was actually started at North Georgia Technical College in the early 1970s and continues to honor excellence in academics and leadership among the state’s technical college students today.
Local GOAL winners are selected at each of the state’s 25 technical colleges and then they compete amongst themselves at the region and state levels.
From across all three of North Georgia Technical College’s campuses, 12 students representing various programs were nominated as candidates to represent the school in the state competition.
Among those top 12 nominees was Laura Ortiz of Toccoa in Business Technology and Jordan Thomas of Toccoa in Photography.
Through a series of competitive interviews and speeches conducted by North Georgia Tech faculty and staff, four were selected for advanced competition from the 12 nominees.
These four engaged in yet one more round of interviews, this time with representatives from the professional community, including Chamber of Commerce representatives. They then each took a turn at the podium before the Rotary Club of Habersham delivering their prepared speeches.
Acting North Georgia Technical College President Dr. Mark Ivester said the school is extremely proud of all of its GOAL nominees.
As the North Georgia Tech 2016 GOAL winner, Egerton will now advance to represent the school at the region level.