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Month: May, 2012

Monday, May 21, 2012

Mitchell Technical Institute will begin observing summer hours. Effective Monday, May 21, offices at both campus sites will be open Monday through Friday, 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM.

Monday, May 14, 2012

MTI Honors 15,000th Graduate

Mitchell Technical Institute observed a milestone during its 2012 commencement in May. Graduate number 15,000 since the school opened in 1968 was awarded an Associate of Applied Science degree. Kyle Uttecht, Heating and Cooling Technology, was honored as the 15,000th graduate with a brief observance during the 90-minute graduation ceremony. He was presented a specially embroidered jacket by MTI president Greg Von Wald. Uttecht, from Huron, graduated wtih high honors. He has already taken a job as a service technician in Huron with Curt's Heating and Cooling. Uttecht, a non-traditional students, was also one of the first MTI graduates who began his education at an outreach site in Huron, before coming to Mitchell to complete his degree.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

MTI Graduation Scheduled for Friday

453 students will graduate Friday, May 11, from Mitchell Technical Institute. Included in the class will be the first-ever graduates from the Electrical Utilities and Substation Technology, Precision Technology, Industrial Maintenance Technology, and Speech Language Pathology Assisting programs and first-ever diplomas granted to full-time online students in Office Technology Specialist.

Students in several programs will be graduating as part of the first class to complete their AAS degrees after starting at outreach sites in Huron and Yankton.

The school will award 338 Associate of Applied Science degrees; 12 two-year diplomas; and 103 one-year diplomas.

Graduates come from 126 communities in South Dakota. 48 Class of 2012 graduates come from 11 states other than South Dakota: California, Colorado, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

This year's graduation speaker is Dusty Johnson, Chief of Staff to Gov. Dennis Daugaard. The invocation and benediction will be give by Reece Yeadon, a student in the Wind Turbine Technology program.