Shawn Payne

Owensboro Community & Technical College's Rover Teams success continued this year with Team 2 earning a ninth place finish and Team 1 earning a fourth place honor. With more than 100 teams scheduled to compete, OCTC was once again the only community an...

As the only community college competing in the 2017 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) earned 27th place in the college division after completing two full rounds of the challenging course and was the ...

Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) is hosting a real-world robotics competition on Saturday, December 1 for students, ages 9-14. FIRST Lego League (FLL) is an international robotics competition that introduces younger students to rea...

Owensboro Community & Technical College's Rover Team participated in the Owensboro Christmas Parade on Saturday, November 17, using the theme of "Wishing You a Peaceful Christmas on Earth...and Mars!". The team built the float using the actual competi...

Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Advanced Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative (AMTEC) has installed Advanced Manufacturing Simulators at Elizabethtown Community & Technical College (ECTC) and at OCTC. OCTC's Shawn Payne h...

The 2018 OCTC Summer Study Abroad trip was held May 15-25. The group traveled to Germany, the Czech Republic, and Poland in partnership with EF College Study Tours. The trip was led by OCTC faculty Kaye Brown, accompanied by Shawn Payne and Mary Kinney...

OCTC was recently awarded a $523,171 grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The ATE program focuses on promoting the improvement of education of science and engineering technicians at the und...

Given the importance of academic advising to student success, a team of Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) faculty and staff created and developed an intensive six-part training plan: the Master Advisors program. It is designed to ensure ...

As one of two community colleges competing in the 2018 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) earned 9th place in the college division April 13-14 in Huntsville, Alabama. The OCTC Rover Team completed a r...

As the only community college competing in the 2017 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, Owensboro Community & Technical College earned 27th place in the college division after completing two full rounds of the challenging course. OCTC was the 2nd h...

Shawn Payne, Kaye Brown, Tonya Northenor, Dr. Meredith Skaggs and Susan Swanson will represent Owensboro Community & Technical College at the 37th Annual National FYE (First Year Experience) Conference February 10-13, 2018 in San Antonio, Texas. "It...

Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) is hosting a real-world robotics competition on Saturday, December 2 for students, ages 9-14. FIRST Lego League (FLL) is an international robotics competition that introduces younger students to real...

As part of the Common Reading's Dystopian focus this semester, students, facutly and staff took a trip to the Frazier Kentucky History Museum in Louisville, KY, to see The Hunger Games Exhibition, ...