Garrett Kroeschel Andrew Law Brandon Sharp
Lincoln Land Community College students Garrett Kroeschel of Chatham, Andrew Law of Donnellson and Brandon Sharp of Pawnee were honored with Illinois Geographical Society’s Outstanding Community College Student Awards at the society’s annual awards banquet held at LLCC on April 21. The award goes to students who have excelled in one or more geography classes.
Sharp and Kroeschel also presented posters at the conference. Sharp’s poster, “Bird Banding: Catching Analysis,” won first place in the poster competition. The project highlighted the data collected at the bird banding station located at Jubilee Farms. Kroeschel’s project, “The Lincoln Trail: Chicago’s History of Working Class Life and Struggle,” took data from a paper brochure and put it into a digital map format.
Kroeschel will be attending Illinois State University in the fall majoring in business information systems. Law is majoring in geography and will graduate from LLCC in December. Sharp will be attending Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in the fall majoring in computer science and minoring in geographic information systems.
