Sindy Barnette Selected 2011 GOAL Award Winner
Sindy Barnette, an Occupational Therapy student at Augusta Technical College resident of Harlem, has been named as the college’s winner of the Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL).
The announcement was made at the Optimist Club of Augusta’s GOAL recognition meeting on Monday, February 21, 2011.
Barnette was chosen by a panel of Optimist Club members over three other nominees for the award. The runners-up were Sheonna Haywood in Marketing Management; Shanice Reabroi in Pharmacy Technology and Robert Utley in Occupational Therapy.
GOAL, a statewide program of the Technical College System of Georgia, honors excellence in academics and leadership among the state’s technical college students. Local GOAL winners are selected at each of the state’s 26 technical colleges as well as the two Board of Regents colleges with technical education divisions.
The announcement of Barnette as the Augusta Technical College GOAL winner was made by Mac Johnson of the Optimist Club with the assistance of Barbara Banning, Barnette’s nominating instructor from Augusta Tech.
Barnette will now proceed to regional judging. All college GOAL winners will receive an all-expense-paid trip to Atlanta for two days in May. Nine finalists, three regional finalists from the three regions, will be announced while in Atlanta and if chosen, she will compete with the other eight GOAL finalists from the other state technical college campuses. A panel of leaders from the business, industry and government sectors will interview them and choose one to be the 2011 state GOAL winner and the recipient of the GOAL medallion.
The grand prize also includes a new car, courtesy of Chevrolet, the statewide corporate sponsor of the GOAL program.

Sindy Barnette, 2011 GOAL Winner (center) greeted by Gwen Taylor, Dean of Allied Health and Nursing; Barbara Banning, Dept. Head of Occupational Therapy Assistant Program and GOAL Nominating Instructor; Terry Elam, President and Melissa Frank-Alston, Vice President of Student Affairs.