Four Augusta Tech Students Named Semi-Finalists for GOAL Award
Four Augusta Technical College students have been selected as the college’s semi-finalists for the Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL), according to Dr. Melissa Frank-Alston, coordinator for the Augusta Technical College’s GOAL program.
Chosen as semifinalists are: Sindy Barnette of Occupational Therapy; Sheonna Haywood of Marketing Management; Shanice Reabroi of Pharmacy Technology and Robert Utley of 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. 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.
All the college GOAL winners will compete in regional judging, which will include students from the other 26 colleges of the Technical College System of Georgia as well as the two Board of Regents colleges with technical education divisions.
GOAL winners from each college will compete in regional judging in March and April. In May, all college winners will come to Atlanta where the nine semi-finalists, three finalists from each of the three regions, will be announced and compete at the state-level in May and one student will be named as the statewide GOAL winner.
"The purpose of the GOAL program is to spotlight the outstanding achievement by students in Georgia's technical colleges and to emphasize the importance of technical education in today’s global workforce," said Frank-Alston.
According to Frank-Alston, a screening committee of administrators at Augusta Tech selected the four semi-finalists from a list of students nominated by their instructors.
"The next step is for The Optimist Club of Augusta, the sponsoring agency, to interview and evaluate these four students and select one to be the college’s 2011 GOAL winner," explained Frank-Alston. “The one judged most outstanding will compete in the Central regional judging. Three finalists from the Central region will compete in the state GOAL competition in Atlanta and vie to be named as the 2011 statewide GOAL winner.”
The state GOAL winner becomes the student ambassador for the Technical College System of Georgia and receives a grand prize of a new car provided by Chevrolet, the statewide corporate sponsor of Georgia’s GOAL program.
Sindy Barnette and Instructor Barbara Banning

Sheonna Haywood and Instructor Kevin Ward

Shanice Reabroi and Instructor Bob Peek

Robert Utley and Instructor Makeiba Allen