GC students bring home the hardware

Gulf Coast students are bringing home the hardware in the form of medals, plaques and trophies from professional development competitions from around the state. So far, 14 students have won top state-wide honors and will move on to compete nationally. This issue will focus on the accomplishments of Phi Beta Lambda, Delta Epsilon Chi and HOSA.

Phi Beta Lambda lands three in nationals

Eight Gulf Coast students took top business honors in March at the annual Phi Beta Lambda state conference in Fulton, Miss. Students from all three of the college’s campuses, along with the George County Center, earned awards for projects ranging from accounting to community service.

Three students - Ebby Wilson, Jenah James and Traci Smith - will now move on to represent the college at the PBL National Leadership Conference in Denver, July 9-12. Smith will compete in accounting, while the team of Wilson and James will present a summary about their chapter’s community-service project called Read to Succeed.

The service project encouraged fellow students and college employees to donate new or used books to the Stone County Library. The Perkinston Campus chapter chose the Stone County Library because of the recent population growth in the area. Over the course of two weeks, more than 670 books were donated to the drive.

Jenah James (left) and Ebby Wilson (right) stand next to more than 670 books collected by the Perkinston Campus chapter of Phi Beta Lamba.

PBL State Winners

Gulf Coast marketing students attended Delta Epsilon Chi’s International Conference April 13-18 after taking top honors at the state conference in March. Twenty-six Gulf Coast students, representing the Jackson County and Jefferson Davis campuses, earned two dozen state-wide awards, ranging from E-commerce to Entrepreneurship.

From those winners, 11 students advanced to Nashville, Tenn., to compete against college students from around the world. Delta Epsilon Chi is a professional organization for college students majoring in marketing. The International Conference was attended by more than 2,000 college students from both the community-college and university levels.

MGCCC students Tiffany Nasakaitis (left) and Ramona Lyons (right) from the Jefferson Davis Campus both won first-place marketing awards at Delta Epsilon Chi’s state conference in March.

MGCCC students from the Jackson County Campus won three first-place marketing awards at the Delta Epsilon Chi’s state conference in March. From left to right: Sandra Osgood, Christy Paulk, Xuyen Hoang and Damian Harris.

DEX State Winners

HOSA hauls in three first-place awards

The George County Center was well represented by its Practical Nursing students at the annual HOSA State Leadership Conference in March. Thirteen students earned top marks during the three-day event. Four of those winners will now move on to the national conference this June in Orlando, Fla.

Practical Nursing students (left to right) Heather McLain, Denise Dearman, Johuna Courtney and Melissa Dillon will compete at the national HOSA conference in June.

HOSA state winners