GTCC Success Stories
People come from across the Triad to find success at GTCC. Click below to read some of their stories.
Published on September 21, 2021
Through GTCC’s Titan Link
Sybil Newman insists she is not an angel. Hundreds of Guilford Technical Community College students, past and present, would insist differently. Newman heads up the college’s Titan Link program, a program that helps not only GTCC students, but also faculty and staff, smooth over rough patches in their lives. From financial to hardware to software to childcare and transportation, Newman and her group work wonders to make life more navigable for those who may be in need.
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Published on September 13, 2021
Since he was a small child, Patrick Camden has always loved to take things apart and put them back together. Now, as a 19-year-old second-year student at Guilford Technical Community College, he’s getting paid to do it.
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Published on August 31, 2021
Four months ago, Willie Foggie was down. He refused to be counted out though.
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Published on August 30, 2021
When we last visited with Lisa Kelly, she was working hard to put the finishing touches on her GED at Guilford Technical Community College with a goal of a March graduation. She crossed that off her list with ease, ending what she refers to as an endurance record of sorts for length of time to complete the curriculum, but more on that later.
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Published on August 30, 2021
The two large cardboard boxes sitting in the rear of Jonathan Skeen’s classroom at Guilford Technical Community College speak volumes about the man and the instructor. One box is for coat donations to help the homeless. The other is for food donations to help those in need.
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Published on August 26, 2021
Marlee Rindal never attended Guilford Technical Community College. But her life and family are deeply vested in GTCC and she has grown to become one of the college’s most ardent proponents.
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Published on August 5, 2021
On a trip to Florida when she was a young child, Rozjae Gaymon became intrigued by airplanes. Soon she will be making repairs on the airplanes she used to dream about, thanks to perseverance, hard work and Guilford Technical Community College.
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Published on August 4, 2021
Katherine Tran and Elaina Fowler are working to become nurses; it’s something they are driven to do. They are taking different paths, but those paths lead through Guilford Technical Community College on the way to a career in nursing.
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Published on July 28, 2021
Averi Lindsay graduated from high school this past spring. She will graduate from Guilford Technical Community College in December with an associate of arts. And she is just 18 years old. Is this some type of educational wizardry? Not even close.
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Published on July 21, 2021
The first thing you notice about David Bryant is his smile. It’s big. It exudes joy and happiness. It’s a billboard for his personality. What the smile doesn’t show is that Bryant is deaf.
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Published on July 6, 2021
There’s bad luck and then there’s just plan rotten luck. Put Daniel Layne in that second category. First, the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out most of his freshman baseball season at Guilford Technical Community College. Then a torn labrum in his shoulder robbed him of summer ball in 2020.
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Published on June 29, 2021
For decades Edith Walson has worked with preschool age children. It has been a lifelong passion for her, a passion she fueled by volunteering in her church and with refugee children in the AmeriCorps program. Now, with her own children grown and out on their own, the 61-year-old Walson has embarked on the next step in pursuing her passion: the Early Childhood Education program at Guilford Technical Community College.
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Published on June 28, 2021
When Holland Robinson graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2019, her sights were set on becoming a lawyer. With a major criminology with a concentration in criminal justice and a double-minor in campaign management and prelaw, it seemed natural. It turns out, she’s pretty much a natural at welding, too. She just didn’t know it at the time.
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Published on June 28, 2021
When Igbal Abdelnour immigrated to the United States from the Republic of Sudan three years ago, Guilford Technical Community College served as one gigantic welcome wagon for her.
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Published on June 28, 2021
Sierra Graham has two job titles at Guilford Technical Community College, but she has many more jobs. Graham is the administrative assistant for the dean of human services and public safety division as well as the fire occupational extension and fire academy. For her diligent work to keep both areas running smoothly, Graham has been named Guilford Technical Community College employee of the month for May.
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Published on June 24, 2021
A pair of recent Guilford Technical Community College graduates have been honored by national tool manufacturers for their classroom success.
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Published on June 9, 2021
Harmony Savage was in a quandary. She was an unhappy student at a four-year college and was looking for a new educational beginning. She turned to Guilford Technical Community College and she has never regretted it.
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Published on June 2, 2021
Two members of the Guilford Technical Community College men’s basketball team continue to draw attention for their solid play well after the final buzzer sounded on the 2021 season.
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Published on May 20, 2021
Frankie Lane is the epitome of what a student success center coordinator should be: she makes helping students her priority every day. For that diligence as the coordinator of the student success center at the Greensboro Campus, she has been named the Guilford Technical Community College employee of the month for April.
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Published on May 19, 2021
While the COVID-19 pandemic continued to envelope the area last fall, students in Natasha Spellman’s early childhood education classes at Guilford Technical Community College wanted to find a way to help children and their families.
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Published on May 11, 2021
Bryce Scott has traveled a long way in a short time. Both literally and figuratively.
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Published on May 7, 2021
Many Guilford Technical Community College students have probably mistaken Bryan McMasters for a postman as he hurried from class-to-class on campus in a full United States Postal Service uniform. Little did they know, he was just like them: a fulltime student at GTCC.
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Published on May 4, 2021
Al Romano has worked at the legendary Tavern on the Green in New York City. He’s shown intercity children how to cook healthy meals. He’s traveled in a mobile kitchen and dining car, cooking meals for Olympic athletes on the torch run in 1984.
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Published on April 26, 2021
Tracey Davis has one of those jobs that is vital, but in normal times, unheralded.
The past 18 months have not been “normal times,” and as the manager of student accounts at Guilford Technical Community College, Davis and her position have been center stage. First there was the pandemic, which is still a part of our everyday life. Then there was the data breach at GTCC.
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Published on April 22, 2021
Marti Webb retired. Then she decided to unretire and start all over.
It wasn’t an easy route for the former nurse who often refers to herself as a “baby boomer.” But with the help of Guilford Technical Community College, she not only succeeded she flourished.
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Published on April 12, 2021
When there is a crisis, there isn’t many things more important than a crisis hotline. That certainly has been the case for Guilford Technical Community College during the COVID 19 pandemic. Amy Schwartz, executive administrative assistant, has been the lead administrative support for the college’s COVID Hotline.
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Published on April 12, 2021
With most of her classes held virtually for the past year, Pam Hollern has grown very accustomed to communicating via Zoom and other virtual platforms. But these days the program director of paralegal technology at Guilford Technical Community College finds herself on a larger virtual stage.
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Published on March 30, 2021
When Michelle Bowden enrolled at Guilford Technical Community College two years ago, she planned on earning an associate degree and continue her work in a childcare center. But that was two years ago, before she stepped on campus and experienced the culture of GTCC.
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Published on March 30, 2021
Doug Cason fled the heat of Texas two-and-a-half years ago for the more temperate climate of North Carolina, all the beauty the state has to offer and a position in Guilford Technical Community College’s Creative and Performing Arts Department.
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Published on March 24, 2021
Sophia Wilkins always dreamed of going to the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Now, thanks to Guilford Technical Community College’s C-STEP transfer pathway, that dream is on the verge of reality. The C-STEP transfer pathway is a partnership with UNC Chapel Hill that guarantees a student admission to the four-year institution upon completion of the C-STEP associate degree program at GTCC.
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Published on March 22, 2021
When Adra Elkins finished the AMQCP structural assembly program at Guilford Technical Community College in 2017, a huge door opened for her.
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Published on March 8, 2021
As a non-traditional student, Courtney Boston knows she has to take a less traveled, more difficult route to reach her dream of becoming an attorney. If that means enrolling in two curriculums simultaneously at Guilford Technical Community College, working a fulltime job as a paralegal for a law firm and a part-time job as a weekend manager at a restaurant all while rearing a three-year-old boy, well, that’s just fine with her.
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Published on March 2, 2021
Faced with a campus-wide academic schedule that was totally disrupted by COVID-19, Tiffany McCauley did what she always does: she performed flawlessly under pressure. Which is why she was recognized as GTCC’s January employee of the month.
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Published on February 24, 2021
Shannon Burghart has always believed in lots of physical activity in her classes at Guilford Technical Community College. The associate professor of early childhood education understands that physical movements stimulate the brain.
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Published on February 4, 2021
Troy Singley had been a chef for many years. But when his restaurant job disappeared last spring as the COVID-19 pandemic began to rage, he was at a crossroads. The 55-year-old New Jersey native knew he needed to find a more storm proof-career and he began to explore the options. A new Guilford Technical Community College program caught his eye and it put him on the road to a new livelihood, both figuratively and literally.
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Published on February 1, 2021
When she was 16, she was forced to leave high school to help care for her six siblings. A decade later, she enrolled in Guilford Technical Community College’s adult education program, only to be blindsided by life. But today the 36-year-old Kelly is immersed in GTCC’s adult education program again and is on course to complete the program this spring.
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Published on January 12, 2021
She was born in Germany and has lived in Spain, Florida, Georgia, St. Maarten, Israel, and California. These days Greensboro is home. Guilford Technical Community College is like a second home for the 40-year-old Balogh as she utilizes the college’s Adult Education Program to help her switch gears in life
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Published on January 12, 2021
When Rabila Mohamed came to the United States three years ago, she spoke only a few words of English, but she was armed with a fierce determination to succeed. With that determination and the help of Guilford Technical Community College, she has never looked back as she works her way toward a career as a registered nurse.
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Published on January 12, 2021
Sarah Oakley figures working a little overtime in the classroom now is going to save her a lot of time down the road. The 17-year-old Oakley is a senior at Southwest Guilford High School and will graduate in the spring. But she is also on schedule to graduate from Guilford Technical Community College this year. She enrolled in the college’s Career and College Promise program in 2019 and since has simultaneously taken both high school and college classes.
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Published on December 9, 2020
Keshguerian has worked her way through the Computer Integrated Machining program, learning to first use manual mills and lathes and then advancing to the CNC mills, CNC lathes, and turning centers.
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Published on December 9, 2020
Wilson earned her associate’s degree in Medical Office Administration – Medical Billing and Coding through the GTCC’s eDegree program. She chose the online learning platform because of the convenience and the security it offered her.
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Published on December 1, 2020
Guilford Technical Community College faced an unparalleled emergency last fall when it was hit with a cyberattack. Countless staff members stepped to the fore to aid in the recovery, but none was more vital than network administrator Jeremy Plumley. Which is why he was recognized as GTCC’s November employee of the month.
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Published on November 19, 2020
Khristine Bautista and Stewart Bartlett both wanted to get a head start on college. They didn’t have to look very far to get the best start possible.
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Published on November 2, 2020
Regardless of the question or problem or dilemma a Guilford Technical Community College student presents Berri Cross, she patiently and calmly finds the correct answer or points them in the right direction. Which is why she was recognized as GTCC’s October employee of the month.
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Published on April 3, 2020
Transitioning from in-class to distance learning can be challenging. Especially if you don’t have a reliable computer or electronic device. Titan Link, GTCC’s services support program that helps students with life issues that arise outside the classroom, recognized there would be a need among students as the college prepared for remote learning in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak last month.
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Published on October 16, 2019
“Having the opportunity to represent the United States on the global stage at WorldSkills was not only an honor but also a privilege. To be able to do something I love just makes it that much more enjoyable,” says GTCC student Alex Millikan who represented the United States at the WorldSkills Competition in Kazan, Russia.
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Published on October 2, 2019
When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in September 2017, the health care infrastructure was decimated and left many young professionals starting their nursing careers with nowhere to turn.
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Published on July 12, 2019
“I’m passionate about the trade and the craft. I want to be the best and inspire others to go after their dreams,” says Josh Hudson, a GTCC graduate who owns and operates Greensboro-based Hudson Autoworks. Hudson earned his associate degree in Collision Repair and Refinishing Technology from GTCC in 2012.
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Published on December 6, 2018
It is often said that what influences people the most are the experiences they go through in life. For Guilford Technical Community College student Casey Trivette, the saying holds true. Trivette, who will graduate with an associate degree from GTCC’s Medical Assisting program in 2019, has used her personal experiences, as well as those around her, to shape her career goals.
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Published on October 29, 2018
Standing at the crossroads of a career she knew and a desire to blaze her own path, Diane Summerville chose the road less traveled when she started her own business. With coaching from Guilford Technical Community College’s Small Business Center, she founded New Day Transitions, Inc., a move management firm that helps seniors transition from the homes they have known and loved to a smaller home or retirement community.
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Published on October 22, 2018
Three Guilford Technical Community College students joined others from Davidson Community College and Forsyth Technical Community College on an adventure they won’t soon forget.
Through a partnership with Universidad Nacional de Villa María in Argentina, eight area community college students spent two weeks in Argentina as part of a faculty-led study abroad program.
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Published on October 19, 2018
His mornings begin at 5:30 a.m. but Jared Ranes says he wouldn’t trade the long days for the world. He uncommon commute takes from his home in Clayton, North Carolina, to GTCC’s High Point campus where he is enrolled in the concert lighting and sound program.
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Published on September 10, 2018
Mike Blanke was standing in an empty hangar when it happened. The moment he became fascinated with flight. An airshow and 1940s swing dancing lessons brought him to Monroe, North Carolina. He didn’t realize it then but that afternoon would have a profound impact on his trajectory.
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Published on August 16, 2018
Matthew Lomas goes the extra mile on campus, has a plan for his future and uses his strengths to propel himself toward his goals. But, it wasn’t always this way.
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Published on July 24, 2018
New technology has increased the demand for skilled machinists. Most machinists work in small machining shops or in manufacturing firms but you’ll also find metalworkers like GTCC graduate Brian Wilson in industries like jewelry.
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Published on July 16, 2018
Originally planning to study history, a back injury that nearly left him paralyzed inspired Chris Wright to pursue a career where he could serve others.
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Published on July 9, 2018
Scholastica Nwaokeke works third shift at FedEx Ground in Greensboro, N.C. After moving to the Triad from New Jersey, she realized her interest in global logistics could turn into a career.
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Published on July 3, 2018
Guilford Technical Community College welcomes many veterans on campus and offices specialized resources to help them succeed in their coursework and pursue meaningful careers. This is something that doesn’t go unnoticed, especially by Army veteran and recent music business graduate, Jeff Duncan.
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Published on June 20, 2018
Stephanie Jarrell (’18) seized the opportunity to return to school after 15 years to achieve her dream of becoming a registered nurse.
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Published on June 11, 2018
When Claimon Tyler first enrolled at GTCC, he was homeless, working minimum wage and had just spent the last eight years of his life in prison. He was committed to making a change and was ready to put in the time and effort necessary.
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Published on June 4, 2018
For GTCC graduate Katelynn Purcell, it has been a long road to her dream career. Her journey began in 2011 when she was still in high school and has been littered with trials and tribulations.
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Published on April 11, 2018
When GTCC Instructor Ron Barrans heard Crenshaw Pentecostal was going to produce its first Extended Play (EP) record, he invited the band to collaborate with GTCC on the project.
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Published on February 28, 2018
The Sky’s the Limit for Aviation Program Graduate -- Spencer Moore likes to be challenged. When the East Davidson High School graduate spotted an ad in the newspaper for Guilford Technical Community College’s aviation program, he was intrigued.
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Published on February 1, 2018
GTCC student finds opportunity, employment through local program: Nick Dasnoit (’17) knew he wanted to major in Information Technology. It appealed to him as a stable and growing industry.
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