Piedmont Technical College students come from wide-ranging backgrounds—from first time college students, to four-year college graduates coming back to school to learn a new skill. But they’re united in their drive to improve their lives through education. These are a few of their stories.
Patient Care Technician Major
Graduation Date: May 2018
Ultimately, Megan Deason is interested in becoming a nurse. But in the meantime, she sees the Patient Care Technician program at Piedmont Technical College as a way to get to work in a hospital environment more quickly—and to start developing some of the knowledge she’ll need when she decides to go on.
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Human Services Major
Graduation Date: May 2016
After an eight-year stint in the Navy, Sandy Webb worked as a machine operator at Avery Dennison for 22 years until the unthinkable happened.
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Machine Tool Technology Major
Like many Piedmont Technical College students, Brendan Golding did not go to college directly after high school.
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Transfer Degree Major
Who wakes up one morning and decides they want to be a dentist?
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Transfer Degree Major
Graduation Date: May 2017
Leah Anthony isn’t your typical teenager. She is a 2017 McCormick High School graduate, but she’s also a 2017 graduate of Piedmont Technical College, thanks to the middle college dual enrollment classes she took.
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Mechatronics Technology Major
Austin Francis is looking toward the future and a successful career that will last. For the 2017 Clinton High School graduate, the dual enrollment classes he took from Piedmont Technical College were the first steps to that future.
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Transfer Degree Major
Graduation Date: May 2017
Grace Alger, like many students her age, has recently started working toward her bachelor’s degree. For the 2017 Mid-Carolina High School graduate, this will be her second college degree, thanks to the dual enrollment classes she took from Piedmont Technical College.
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Business Administration Major
Graduation Date: December 2016
Currently: Self Regional Healthcare
Sometimes now is not the time to find yourself. It may be what you are meant to achieve in the future. Nakisha Anderson knows this.
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Transfer Degree Major
Hector Ortiz already has plans for his future. And he knows the dual enrollment classes he is taking through Piedmont Technical College will help him get there.
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Mechanical Engineering Technology Major
Graduation Date: May 2014
Currently: Sealed Air
Cory Nickles is always up for a challenge. So, the engineering technology programs at Piedmont Technical College were perfect for him.
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