EMERGING SCHOLARS NAMED

Five Iowa Lakes Community College students have been named Emerging Scholars for 2008.

Casey Carlson, a Criminal Justice student from Spirit Lake; Greg Haack, a Hotel-Restaurant Management student from Emmetsburg; Richard Kokesh, a Construction Technology student from Wagner, S.D.; Daniel Traub, an Auto Collision and Paint Technology student from Ottosen; and Ben Ulrich, a Construction Technology student from West Bend are the students who qualified for Emerging Scholars this year.

These outstanding students have taken two or more developmental classes and maintained a 3.35 or better grade point average on 24 or more credits. These students have a combined average GPA of 3.62 and have earned between 25 and 53 hours of credit at Iowa Lakes Community College.

In addition to qualifying on basic criteria, applicants were asked to write an essay answering questions about their educational and career goals. From this essay the Emerging Scholar of the Year was selected.

Casey Carlson, a Criminal Justice student from Spirit Lake was named the 2008 Emerging Scholar of the year at a reception in late April.