2025 Future Alumni Essay Contest
Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2025 Future Alumni Essay Contest!
The theme of this year's contest was:
How Trident Tech is helping me turn POTENTIAL into PURPOSE.
In 1,000 words or less, students were asked to discuss each of the following topics:
- Reflect on the potential you saw in yourself when you first enrolled at Trident Tech. How has your experience here helped you grow into that potential?
- Share a story about how faculty, staff, or peers helped you uncover your purpose or direction.
- How do you plan to carry forward the sense of purpose you’ve developed at Trident Tech into your career, family, or community?
- If you received a scholarship from the TTC Foundation, please share how that scholarship impacted you.
Laura Benson -
Nursing - ADN
Walking in the Purpose for Which I Was Created
Teresa Hampton -
Nursing - ADN
Still Becoming: My Journey to Nursing at 56
Samantha Mallard -
Small Business / Entrepreneurship
Transforming Ambition Into Action and a Dream Into Reality
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