NGTC Names Rick Perkins Award Winner

North Georgia Technical College names its nominee for this year’s Rick Perkins Award for Excellence in Technical Education.

This year’s winner at North Georgia Tech is Pamela Segers.

Segers serves as Instructor and Program Coordinator for the Criminal Justice program.

Each year, faculty and staff at North Georgia Technical College nominate instructors who exemplify excellence in teaching.

The nominees then participate in a series of interviews that help determine the winner.

That winner then goes on to represent the college at the Technical College System of Georgia’s Rick Perkins Award competition in the Spring.

The Rick Perkins Award for Excellence in Technical Instruction has been an ongoing statewide event since 1991, and is designed to recognize technical college instructors who make significant contributions to technical education through innovation and leadership in their fields.

Formerly known as the Commissioner’s Award of Excellence, the award was renamed in honor and memory of Thomas “Rick” Perkins, an instructor at West Central Technical College, who received the Commissioner’s Award of Excellence prior to his death.

Other instructors nominated for the North Georgia Technical College Rick Perkins Award this year include: Jason Smith, Welding Instructor; Charles Hill, Emergency Medical Services Instructor and Program Director; Gail Berry, Medical Assisting Instructor and Program Director on the Blairsville Campus; Stacie Bohannon, Medical Assisting Instructor and Program Director on the Clarkesville Campus; Allyson Smith, English Instructor on the Clarkesville Campus; and Dorothy Hansen, English Instructor on the Blairsville Campus.