Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) hosted the 7th Annual Girls Empowerment Trailblazer Dinner on Thursday, February 29th, at 5:30 p.m. in OCTC's Blandford Lecture Hall, located in the Humanities Building on OCTC's Main Campus at 4800 New Hartford Road in Owensboro, Kentucky. The event included a keynote presentation from guest speaker Aisha Bowe. Check-in for the main event and a program fair featuring OCTC programs and information began at 4:30pm.
Aisha Bowe is a former NASA rocket scientist, future Blue Origin astronaut, global motivational speaker, and the founder and CEO of STEM Board that has been recognized in the Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest-growing companies in America. She started her journey by taking a pre-algebra class at a community college, and she remains passionate about empowering students to pursue careers in STEM. Aisha created a self-paced coding kit called LINGO that is currently used by over 5,000 students in 10 countries.
Each year, this event is geared towards middle school and high school ages along with their parents and guardians, but all are welcome to attend. The event was sponsored in part by Independence Bank, the Hopkins County Business and Professional Women, the Kentucky Business and Professional Women's Foundation, Inc. and the OCTC Foundation, Inc.
