Kishwaukee College honored students at the annual Student Awards Day April 6 in Jenkins Auditorium. Students from departments throughout the college received a variety of scholarships and recognition awards from instructors and representatives of organizations from within the community.
Receiving the following awards were:
All Illinois Academic Awards: Crystal Dalaguete and Yuka Votaw
Reaching Forward Employee scholarship: Nicole Van Garsse, Drew Pearson and Emmanuel Smith
Ruth Ashelford-Pollock Outstanding Nursing graduate: Joshua Musich
Altrusa Returning Women scholarships: Carol Soltow
Artistic Discipline Award: Alicia Click
Chris Heisner Student Association Award: Nathanael Kozinski
Doris Piatak Community Service Award: Jaimie Goecks
John C. Roberts Leadership Award: Yuka Votaw
Kamelian Literary/Arts Journal Awards: Paul Brunk, Natalie Calhoun, Owen Duvall, Zachary Effler, Samuel Gelman, Jordan Fitzsimmons, Sarah Greer, Cathy Hackler, Jessi Haish, Michael Holland, Katherine Kennedy, Peggy Klus and Aaron Ziegler
Outstanding accountancy students: Melissa Mayhew, Edgar Perez and Veronica Radovic
Outstanding agriculture student: Riley Hintzsche
Outstanding automotive technology students: Russell Cook and Adam Helges
Outstanding business, marketing and management student: Reece Bean and Gordon L. Kuykendall
Outstanding collision repair technology students: David Arteaga, Felix Hernandez and Keith Moulton
Outstanding computer-aided design technology student: Mark Peterson
Outstanding criminal justice students: Jessica Egan, Lori Hessler, Nicole Kimbro, Christopher Mathews, Nichole Prentice and Robert Wood
Outstanding diesel power technology students: Cole Bishop, Brock Olson, Jose Torres, Tim Meinhardt and Pete Schmidt
Outstanding English students: Calvin Coran, Christie Coran, Gina Poci, Leah Samo and Jack Tierney
Outstanding forensics student: Harold Brown
Outstanding Student Diversity Achievement Award: Crystal Dalaguete
Outstanding horticulture students: Allison Henze and Dan Strey
Paul Simon student essay contest: Leah Samo
Student Government Award of Excellence: Patrick MacIntyre
Who’s Who nominees: Dylan Blaum, Crystal Dalalguete, Zachary Effler, Erica Huerta, Nathanael Kozinski, Tim Meinhardt and Yuka Votaw