Tracy Allen, Automated Manufacturing & Robotics Student, was awarded the BATC Student of the Year for 2015. President Chad Campbell, along with the BATC Board Members congratulated Tracy on a job well done and presented her with a $1,000 check. Tracy was also a student speaker at the BATC Graduation Ceremony in December. We are proud of Tracy and her accomplishments.
A little about Tracy:
We know that Tracy will be successful in this field and she has proven this with her time at BATC. We congratulate her on the award of Student of the Year!"Raising a son on my own for the first time, I knew I had to make a drastic change if I didn't want to live paycheck to paycheck for the rest of our lives. I had a lot of work experience from a variety of different types of jobs, so I had a pretty good idea by this point in my life of what I did and did not want to do for the remainder of my working years. When I selected BATC I had researched my options inside and out. After thoughtful consideration of several different programs, I toured the campus and decided that my future would be in Automated Manufacturing and Robotics. Without any real experience or background in this field I knew it was going to be challenging to say the very least but finding a way to work throught those trials and overcome them is the ony way to get there! In April 2015 I was selected for a paid internship at Nucor Steel Corporation in Plymouth, Utah as an automation and electrical maintenance technician. The field training I am receiving there, coupled with my education at BATC has already begun to change mine and my family's lives for the better. I know without a shadow of a doubt that my education at BATC was the key to open endless doors of opportunity and from here forward 'the sky's the limit!' "
Tracy will be moving on to the UCAT (Utah College of Applied Technology) Student of the Year competition held January 21, 2016, at a Gala in honor of the eight winners in the State of Utah. The grand prize winner will receive additional prizes, which includes the two-year lease of a new Ford Focus. We wish you the best of luck!