CWC STUDENT WINS STUDENT OF THE YEAR AT WACCT

Central Wyoming College nursing student Jenn Pfisterer won Student of the Year at the Wyoming Association for Community College Trustees award ceremony on Feb. 7 in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Each community college in Wyoming has the opportunity to submit a nominee for Student of the Year, each college submitted a nominee this year.

“I was very surprised that I won,” Pfisterer said. “When looking at all the other students’ biographies, I thought they were all amazing and deserved to win. So it was a very big surprise.”

Pfisterer who is a non-traditional student attributes her success to her fellow classmates, who push her as much as she pushes them to be successful.

“There are a lot of other students that deserve this honor as well because I know how hard they work and how many other things life throws at them,” she said. “We really have become an odd little family.”

Pfisterer said her nursing student family have all gone through stress, political debates and mood swings much like a normal family does but just like most families they are all rooting for each other and help each other.

“We are all a team and work our butts off to succeed in this program,” she said. Pfisterer also credits her family; a husband and four young children, to her success.

“Their support has allowed me to focus on school and be the best I can,” Pfisterer said.

“Central Wyoming College is excited to be a part of something that is elevating the importance of career paths where people can be really successful,” says President Brad Tyndall. “Trades, like our auto program, are so desperately needed by our communities right now. We’re incredibly thankful for Metallica’s generosity and All Within My Hands’ support.”

“Metallica’s mission to bring ‘dignity to the trades’ is aligned with Central Wyoming College’s purpose of providing high quality education in all of our trades programs,” says Lynne McAuliffe, CWC Dean of Business, Technical, Health and Safety. “We selected the Automotive Technology program to be the focus of this initiative in order to bring additional resources and attention to the demanding profession of automotive technicians.”