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Six DeKalb Technical College students have been selected as the College’s semi-finalists for the Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL), according to Amanda Taylor, Dean of Student Affairs, and Dr. Debra Gordon, Academic Dean, coordinators for the 2009 GOAL program.
Chosen as semifinalists are: Khary Davis, accounting major, Army veteran, and Constituent Representative to Hank Johnson; Shannon Moon, legal office specialist major who plans to be an attorney and is married to a firefighter; Police Captain Lisa Gassner, criminal justice major who was the first female SWAT member in DeKalb County; Caris Ruiz, a clinical laboratory technician major with a four-year degree in microbiology; Gina Smith, mother of five, pastor, an administrative office technology major who aspires to be an appellate judge; and Andrew Wilson, an air conditioning technology major who left the corporate world to train in a field that was much less susceptible to downsizing or outsourcing.
GOAL, a statewide program of the Technical College System of Georgia, honors excellence in academics and leadership among the state’s technical college students. GOAL winners are selected at each of the state’s technical college’s and compete in consortia preliminary judging. Twelve finalists from consortia preliminary judging attend the state GOAL competition in Atlanta.
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Khary Davis |
Shannon Moon |
Lisa Gassner |
Caris Ruiz |
Gina Smith |
Andrew Wilson |
“The purpose of the GOAL program is to spotlight the outstanding achievement by students in Georgia’s technical colleges and to emphasize the importance of technical education in today’s global workforce,” say Deans Gordon and Taylor.
All GOAL nominees will be recognized at a reception at the DeKalb Technical College Clarkston Conference Center on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, at 11:30 a.m.
