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Catoosa County College and Career Academy honors 169 students with industry credentials, scholarship and awards
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The College and Career Academy in Catoosa County recognized 169 students who earned industry credentials, college credits and pathway awards; the GNTC Foundation awarded a scholarship, 41 students received EQ Bridge emotional intelligence certification, and instructors and students received year-end honors.
The Catoosa County College and Career Academy honored 169 students at a cording ceremony that highlighted industry credentials, college credit, a scholarship from the GNTC Foundation and year-end awards, school leaders said.
The ceremony recognized students across multiple career pathways who earned certifications ranging from OSHA-30 and detention-officer credentials to National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) assessments and healthcare certificates. "This is an amazing day," Mark Pierce, principal of the College and Career Academy, said as he opened the event. "This is the culmination of all that we do."
The academy emphasized workforce readiness and postsecondary options. Amy Jackson, representing the Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) Foundation, announced that the foundation awarded a High School Graduate Scholarship to an outstanding student from each of the 38 high schools and college-and-career academies in GNTC's nine-county service area,…
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