{"id":270,"date":"2018-02-23T11:25:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T17:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=270"},"modified":"2018-05-21T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:30:10","slug":"winchester-attends-nigh-leadership-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/winchester-attends-nigh-leadership-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Winchester Attends Nigh Leadership Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Area Seminole State College student Gavin Winchester of Prague, Okla. recently attended the Nigh Institute Leadership Academy held in Oklahoma City.
\nWinchester received a George and Donna Nigh Public Service Scholarship this year through the Nigh Institute program funded by the Oklahoma Legislature. During the leadership academy, students visited with members of the House of Representatives and the Senate and attended sessions concerning Oklahoma\u2019s local government, government relations, the national election, public policy and Oklahoma\u2019s economic future.<\/p>\n

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As part of this year\u2019s Nigh Academy activities, Gavin Winchester visits the Express Ranch in Yukon, Okla. where he meets the largest and oldest Clydesdale horse, at the facility owned by Robert Funk, founder\/CEO of Express Employment Professionals.<\/p><\/div>\n

In addition, the group visited Quail Creek Country Club, Paycom, Tinker Air Force Base, Express Ranch, Devon Tower, \u201cThe Oklahoman\u201d, the Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Offices.
\nThe group also had the privilege of meeting many of Oklahoma\u2019s leaders including Clay Bennet, owner of the Oklahoma City Thunder; Robert Funk, founder\/CEO of Express Employment Professionals; Bobby Stem, President of the Association of Oklahoma General Contractors; Dan Boren, former Oklahoma State Congressman; and Vicki Miles LaGrange, the first African-American woman attorney for the western district of Oklahoma.
\nThe theme of the leadership conference this year was \u201cYou Can Do It From Here.\u201d Winchester explained that all of the influential leaders throughout the institute encouraged student participants that they can do anything from Oklahoma. \u201cEach speaker at the Nigh Academy helped me gain confidence for my future. They stressed that not everyone has to be born into a rich and powerful family to be successful. Jim Thorpe was born in my hometown of Prague and became the world\u2019s greatest athlete,\u201d said Winchester.
\nWinchester is a 2016 Prague High School graduate. At SSC, he is a freshman member of the President\u2019s Leadership Class and will be inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society on campus next week.<\/p>\n

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Winchester is the son of Heather Annis and Robert Winchester.\u00a0 He is the grandson of former long-time SSC math instructor Larry Vickers and his wife Rosella, and Jenny Pratka and Tom Winchester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Area Seminole State College student Gavin Winchester of Prague, Okla. recently attended the Nigh Institute Leadership Academy held in Oklahoma City. Winchester received a George and Donna Nigh Public Service Scholarship this year through the Nigh Institute program funded by the Oklahoma Legislature. During the leadership academy, students visited with members of the House of … Continue reading Winchester Attends Nigh Leadership Academy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-academics","tag-february","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}