Jen Somma, a CMCC Automotive Technologies student, earns significant
national ranking in snowboarding competitions
Jen Somma, who is an Automotive Technologies student at CMCC, took time out to compete in the National Snowboard Competitions in Colorado from March 28th to April 5th.  Jen says that she went with little expectation for victory, but she returned having placed seventh in halfpipe and fifth in slopestyle and took
3rd place overall in the competitions. She now enjoys a significant national ranking and keeps her sights both on her studies and on future snowboarding competitions. Article and photo in Around Campus News.

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Mountain Climbing Snowboarder, CMCC student aims for the top
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2008 Student of the Year, Deb Lyons
is a model of perseverance and dedication
to success.  She graduates from CMCC this year,
and will go on to earn her four-year degree
in Human Services



PHOTO:  Deb Lyons attended a ceremony in Augusta where she was officially presented with the Student of the Year Award.  Pictured here from left to right: Scott Knapp, CMCC President, Deb Lyons, and Randall Lee, Dean of Student
Services at CMCC.
The Central Maine Community College Student of the Year is Deb Lyons, a Human Services major from Oxford, Maine.  Deb is a 47-year old nontraditional student who has served willingly and superbly as a student worker in the admissions office and financial aid office, is a member and treasurer of Women in Technology (WIT) student organization, a Student Senate representative of the Human Services program, a student mentor for the CMCC TRiO program and for WIT, and a student mentor for CMCC's Title III First Year Experience program.

Deb has excelled at Central Maine Community College and has positively touched the lives of those with whom she has come in contact. But success in college did not come easily for this Navy veteran.


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