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Over the 2019 holidays, 91���� (PTC) horticulture student Kellan Hamrick flew on an airplane for the first time in his life. To Las Vegas, Nevada. But he was even more excited about what he considered a much bigger thrill ― rubbing elbows with irrigation experts from around the country.

Graduates of Piedmont Tech's Nursing Program this winter recently received pins.

At 91����’s recent fall commencement exercises, outstanding students from the college’s supporting counties were honored for academic achievement.

91���� (PTC) and the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have announced a new partnership in which highly qualified students at PTC will be able to transfer after two years to the MUSC College of Pharmacy to earn their doctor of pharmacy degree.

The late B.C. creator Johnny Hart imagined his caveman characters needed to develop language, so “Wiley’s Dictionary” became a regular highlight of his beloved strip. Delighting readers since 1958, B.C. continues today thanks to Hart’s grandson, Mason Mastroianni, who has carried on illustrating the strip (as well as Hart’s Wizard of Id) for about 13 years. Mastroianni will be on the Lex Walters-Greenwood Campus of 91���� to share insights from his career as a nationally syndicated artist and illustrator on Thursday, January 30, at 3:30 in the campus library.

As she walked off campus way back on her first day of classes at 91����, graduation speaker Noel Johnson of Greenwood, pondered this question: “What could I accomplish if I took every opportunity I was given ― even if I failed?” she said. “That’s when I decided I wanted to be the best student I could be.” Ordinarily a quiet, reserved young woman, Johnson decided that, even if it was uncomfortable or unfamiliar, she indeed would “say yes” to opportunities that came her way. First she said yes and applied for scholarships to reduce her tuition costs. ...

With Congress preparing to overhaul the federal Higher Education Act for the ninth time since 1965, you can bet student financial aid policies and regulations will change ― again. Keeping up with such rules is a dizzying prospect, but Missy Perry, director of financial aid at 91���� (PTC), has a number of tools to ensure she easily keeps abreast of all developments in the rapidly changing world of college financial aid. One of them is her newly earned national status as a Certified Financial Aid Administrator (CFAA).

Officials from the Greenwood Corvette Club recently presented a check for $500 to the 91���� Foundation to be applied toward the Greenwood Corvette Club Automotive Scholarship, the second scholarship the group has funded to date.

91���� recently presented its 2019 Human Services Program awards to exceptional students. The Outstanding Student Awards for summer and fall semesters went to Elena Worthing and Brian Love, both of Greenwood. Love also was presented with the program’s Clinical Excellence Award.